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2007-01-08 Africa Horn

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-01-08 19:20|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If the attack got the operatives it was aimed at, reports Martin, it would deal a major blow to al Qaeda in East Africa.

OH YES, OH YES.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-01-08 19:34|| 2007-01-08 19:34|| Front Page Top

#2 included the senior al Qaeda leader in East Africa and an al Qaeda operative wanted for his involvement in the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in Africa

revenge is a dish best served cold

Posted by PlanetDan 2007-01-08 19:41|| 2007-01-08 19:41|| Front Page Top

#3 I bet they weren't expecting an AC-130.

Posted by Penguin 2007-01-08 19:41|| 2007-01-08 19:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Payback's a bitch...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-01-08 19:43|| 2007-01-08 19:43|| Front Page Top

"No-body expects an AC-130 gunship!"

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-01-08 19:49|| 2007-01-08 19:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Well done, guys!

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-08 19:53|| 2007-01-08 19:53|| Front Page Top

#7 YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And don't forget any follow-through!

Posted by gorb 2007-01-08 19:58|| 2007-01-08 19:58|| Front Page Top

#8 What is the standard follow through after an AC-130 gunship attack?

Posted by Penguin 2007-01-08 20:04|| 2007-01-08 20:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Meanwhile, a jungle hideout used by Islamic milita

Somalia has jungles. The stuff you learn at the Burg.

Pretty funny, Moose.

Posted by phil_b 2007-01-08 20:05|| 2007-01-08 20:05|| Front Page Top

#10 What is the standard follow through after an AC-130 gunship attack?

Sponge mop?

Posted by eLarson 2007-01-08 20:10|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-01-08 20:10|| Front Page Top

#11 What is the standard follow through after an AC-130 gunship attack?

Not with the AC-130s necessarily. I am hoping we don't take our focus off killing as many as possible too early. Don't let them regroup. Hound them. Kill them. Don't let them rest until you hurt them so bad they crawl under a bush, die, and those in other countries don't consider going back.

Posted by gorb 2007-01-08 20:11|| 2007-01-08 20:11|| Front Page Top

#12 gorb - you sentimentalist...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-08 20:13|| 2007-01-08 20:13|| Front Page Top

#13 Sponge mop?

Nah, just let nature take its course. Terrorists make great fertilizer and the AC-130s are good at spreading it over a wide area suitable for farming.

Posted by gorb 2007-01-08 20:13|| 2007-01-08 20:13|| Front Page Top

#14 gorb - you sentimentalist

I gotta admit the news did bring a tear to my eye. :-)

Posted by gorb 2007-01-08 20:14|| 2007-01-08 20:14|| Front Page Top

#15 From the comments at CBS ("John Anti-war")

Those U.S. gunships kill everything in their path and there is little doubt that many, many innocent Somali Muslims were slaughtered. How much more blood, Muslim and American, will we spill for the sake of the right-wing Israeli government and those among the American elite who make money on war and have dreams of world empire.

In fact, this left-liar is following the Goebbels dictum that a big lie is better than a small one.
The AC-130's guns are the most accurate aerial weapons we have, capable of picking off a single individual if required, or of knocking down a single small building with little risk to the occupants of neighboring structures. It was probably chosen for this mission for that specific reason; in preference to, say, a B-1 load of JDAMs .

Of course, after contradicting some pretty well-documented facts, "John antiwar" goes on to make any number of unsupported authoritarian pronouncments, as though his word alone were enough to persuade readers of his position.

This obvious combination of arrogance and ignorance is another example of why I do not believe in the sincerity of any anti-war activist.
They are all murderers, power-seekers, and totalitarians at heart, acting out of sympathy and admiration for the Islamic terrorists, just as the Cold War peace movment was largely motivated by sympathy for communism and envy for its ruthless power structure.

In 1000 years, people will shake their heads in wonder that we did not shoot these lying frauds in the street, let alone that millions pretended to take them seriously. The people of that time will see the peace hypocrites the same way we see the Spanish Inquisition or the witch hunters or medieval relic peddlers.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-01-08 20:36|| http://www.nuclearspace.com]">[http://www.nuclearspace.com] 2007-01-08 20:36|| Front Page Top

#16 EYE'S RIGHT! Hands Salute to 1st SOW, Hurlburt Field, Florida!

Posted by Besoeker 2007-01-08 20:39|| 2007-01-08 20:39|| Front Page Top

#17 Great news....

I bet 'steel rain' (love that term) wasn't in their forecast for today.

I wonder if a video will be available.....

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-01-08 20:52|| 2007-01-08 20:52|| Front Page Top

#18 The History Channel should do a Dogfights! episode on AC-130s

Posted by Penguin 2007-01-08 21:06|| 2007-01-08 21:06|| Front Page Top

#19 Gorb! The blood of a soldier runs through you! HT!

The red stringer or rounds of the AC 130 always gets me to stop and watch, or listen. I know that somewhere someone, who is very deserving, is having a very very bad day. Little Bird gunships, Predator gunships, AC 130 gunships, they just make me a warm and happy troop!

Posted by 49 Pan 2007-01-08 21:44|| 2007-01-08 21:44|| Front Page Top

#20 Could be the Kadina boys as well, Fallon's lettin then in to play.

Posted by 49 Pan 2007-01-08 21:45|| 2007-01-08 21:45|| Front Page Top

#21 Those U.S. gunships kill everything in their path and there is little doubt that many, many innocent Somali Muslims were slaughtered.

Is that supposed to bother me, because it doesn't...

Posted by tu3031 2007-01-08 21:50|| 2007-01-08 21:50|| Front Page Top

#22 Would those be the same Somali civilians creating 'chaos' in the streets of Mogadishu in the aftermath of the Aethiop destabilization?

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-01-08 22:08|| 2007-01-08 22:08|| Front Page Top

#23 Even if there aren't many, many, innocents cut down by the gunship. (and I bet there aren't) I'm sure the Somalia version of Green Helmet Guy will make sure there are... and just in time for him fondle and cart the little corpses around for all the cameras.

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-01-08 22:09|| 2007-01-08 22:09|| Front Page Top

#24 very true CF

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-08 22:13|| 2007-01-08 22:13|| Front Page Top

#25 Sometimes death can be so ....... heart-warming.

Posted by Brett 2007-01-08 22:31|| 2007-01-08 22:31|| Front Page Top

#26 cBS Video

not that there aren't enough authentic libtards called "John Anti-wars" on the net, but many a Mohammed, Hameeds, and Abduls pose as "John Anti-wars" also.

Posted by RD 2007-01-08 22:43|| 2007-01-08 22:43|| Front Page Top

#27 Wasn't there any helicopters on hand to drop a some troops in afterward? Would be nice to make sure nobody survived, or last make sure the ones that didn't were double or triple dead.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-01-08 22:43|| 2007-01-08 22:43|| Front Page Top

#28 Puff the Magic Dragon...

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2007-01-08 22:50|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2007-01-08 22:50|| Front Page Top

#29 Best news I've heard yet this year.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-01-08 22:51|| 2007-01-08 22:51|| Front Page Top

#30 Unexpected and I am sure unwelcomed by the wrong sort of people.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-01-08 23:34|| www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]">[www.sockpuppetofdoom.com] 2007-01-08 23:34|| Front Page Top

#31 Liberals make me a sad panda...

Posted by Snuting Glatch6729 2007-01-08 23:39|| 2007-01-08 23:39|| Front Page Top

#32 Front-line grunts like JDAMs, and really like supporting A-10's, and love supporting Attack Helicopters - but positively lust for an AC-130 Spectre in direct support.

It is - effectively - to have the power of certain death and destruction at your fingertips. If something displeases you within your field of observation, you can make it simply disappear.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2007-01-08 23:44|| 2007-01-08 23:44|| Front Page Top

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