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2007-07-27 Iraq

Scout weapon teams kill 14 insurgents in Diyala

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Posted by Fred 2007-07-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 Surveillance aircraft responded to a radio call from ground forces observing a group of insurgents moving tactically along a canal in central Diyala. The air teams moved into position and fired on the insurgents killing nine.

accommodating hajjis bunched up in a kill box.

Posted by RD">RD 2007-07-27 01:52|| 2007-07-27 01:52|| Front Page Top

#2 RD, hajji (various spellings) is the term for a person who has made the haj, or pilgrimage to Mecca. It is a term of respect (historically) - and the haj is one of the more benign and less weird aspects of the Islamic cult. When we misused the term in reference to shopkeepers and the like it wasn't too bad, but for terrorists a different word should apply (jihadi is not unreasonable. Or terrorist. Or murderer. Etc.)

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-07-27 09:44|| 2007-07-27 09:44|| Front Page Top

#3 RD - I re-read my comment and an image flashed into my head of a million true hajjis crawling in a spiral around (and in) a massive 'kill box'.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-07-27 09:46|| 2007-07-27 09:46|| Front Page Top

#4 rag head (testing the word filter)

Posted by OldSpook 2007-07-27 10:20|| 2007-07-27 10:20|| Front Page Top

#5 wierd. IT keeps eating my posts about the bad nicknames we had for the arabs since forever, like "wog"

Posted by OldSpook 2007-07-27 10:21|| 2007-07-27 10:21|| Front Page Top

#6 crawling in a spiral around (and in) a massive 'kill box'.

Like moths to a flame, or ants to poisoned sugar.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-27 14:07|| 2007-07-27 14:07|| Front Page Top

#7 OS, I thought that was lil' sheet head?

*ducks*

Posted by BA 2007-07-27 14:58|| 2007-07-27 14:58|| Front Page Top

#8 I thought "hajji" was what our troops called the insurgents...

Posted by Hokie Low 2007-07-27 17:28|| 2007-07-27 17:28|| Front Page Top

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