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2007-09-28 Iraq

AQI #3 Abu Usama al Tunisi bites the dust

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Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-28 12:35|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq

#1 There's lots of positive news floating around on various fronts (this, Tora Bora, Israel's bombing of Syria, etc...)

Is this what momentum feels like?

Posted by Captain Lewis 2007-09-28 12:44|| 2007-09-28 12:44|| Front Page Top

#2 (Budda bomp bomp bomp)
Another one bites the dust!
(Bomp bomp bomp)
Another one bites the dust!

Posted by Mike 2007-09-28 12:47|| 2007-09-28 12:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Al-Tunisi was killed in an air strike on Tuesday that followed a series of raids in which several of his associates had been captured, Brig Gen Anderson added.

"Ok, Ok, I'll tell you where Abu is hiding. Just get THAT away from me!"

Posted by Steve 2007-09-28 13:13|| 2007-09-28 13:13|| Front Page Top

#4 I am glad he's met his virgins, and not a moment too soon, but how do we know that he was specifically number 3?

Is this like a college football poll, that some bearded schmockmeister is #3 this week, then #2 afeter planting a few successful roadside bombs, then #5 after some insult of Osama's Aide.

Posted by BigEd 2007-09-28 13:23|| 2007-09-28 13:23|| Front Page Top

#5 He's a firm #3 with a bullet...in his head.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-09-28 13:42|| 2007-09-28 13:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Pickin' up the pieces of his sweet, shattered dreams...

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-09-28 13:56|| 2007-09-28 13:56|| Front Page Top

#7 This appears to have been the end of a two-week roll-up. I presume the three day delay in announcing it was so they were sure they had finished rolling. Still, it will be interesting to see if there are more announcements in the pipeline.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-09-28 13:59|| 2007-09-28 13:59|| Front Page Top

#8 CentCom Release had a bit more info. Apparantly a couple other 'leaders' also received terminal 500 pound laser-guided headaches with him.

U.S. AIR FORCE F-16 AIR STRIKE KILLS 3 TERRORIST LEADERS
COMBINED AIR OPERATIONS CENTER, Southwest Asia - A U.S. Air Force F-16CJ Fighting Falcon dropped precision munitions near Al Nussayyib, Iraq Sept. 25, killing Abu Nasr al-Tunisi and two other Al Q'aeda in Iraq operatives.

They were killed when the aircraft, assigned to U.S. Central Command Air Forces, dropped two precision-guided 500lb bombs on the target-one laser-guided GBU-12 and one GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munition, destroying the terrorist safe house where the three were meeting.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-09-28 14:09|| 2007-09-28 14:09|| Front Page Top

#9 TWO 500-pounders. I LIKE that.

Why the two different types, I wonder?

Posted by Bobby 2007-09-28 16:01|| 2007-09-28 16:01|| Front Page Top

#10 My thanks to the moderator who added the additional, the pictures, and punched up the headline. I take sole credit for the #3, however, based on the bit in the first article that says

was one of the most senior leaders ... the emir of foreign terrorists in Iraq and part of the inner leadership circle

Because if that isn't a number three, then I don't know my organizational charts. Remember, only one #1 at a time, several #2s, each of which has one or more #3s. Like species evolution, it's a bush, not a tree. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-28 16:02|| 2007-09-28 16:02|| Front Page Top

#11 get yer chocolates here...

Posted by Querent 2007-09-28 16:49|| 2007-09-28 16:49|| Front Page Top

#12 So.....perhaps there is something we have taught to Iraqi security about border security that might apply to our own?....I thought not.

Posted by Skunky Glins5285">Skunky Glins5285 2007-09-28 19:54|| 2007-09-28 19:54|| Front Page Top

#13 HHHHHMMMMMM, HHHHHHMMMMM, Saipan. Perhaps PAULA "DELILAH/BATHSHEBA" ABDUL doth remembers too much [Darth Vader breathing here].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-09-28 20:34|| 2007-09-28 20:34|| Front Page Top

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