Bad Day For Al Qaeda In Iraq

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ABC News;

U.S. Air Force F-16s obliterated three truck-mounted anti-aircraft weapons and killed 10 to 14 al Qaeda operatives near Fallujah on Tuesday, according to the military.

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The operator of the drone first spotted a truck with anti-aircraft weaponry mounted on it driving in the area. The drone followed the truck as it drove to a nearby training compound.
“When we spotted this truck, we continued to follow it until it went to that compound where it’s obviously doing some kind of training,” Caldwell explained.
The video shows what appears to be al Qaeda members firing anti-aircraft weapons from the trucks as they train to take over an abandoned building.
The small black images are artillery rounds being fired from the trucks and some can be seen richocheting off the structures. Because the operation began in the late evening, the drone used thermal heat imagery which made it easy to spot the activity.
Caldwell told ABC News, “We then called in aircraft support to bring in some precision munitions and once it was established there was no apparent civilians in the area, the decision was made to engage and destroy the anti-aircraft truck.”

Video at the link.

23 Replies to “Bad Day For Al Qaeda In Iraq”

  3. This will be written up as unexplained Djinn activity in the A-Q field diary of the unit concerned.

  4. All on the heels of a Mothersday weekend. Couldn’t they have waited until after the mothersday weekend so that those poor mothers wouldn’t have to grieve for their terrorist combatant sons.
    Maybe Taliban Jack can set up a consoling tea party to comfort the poor terrorist mothers.
    Timothy Coderre

  6. “The video shows what appears to be al Qaeda members firing anti-aircraft weapons from the trucks as they train to take over an abandoned building.”
    Looks like al Qaeda is training to assault some of the American outposts established as part of the new security plan.

  9. “Bad Day For Al Qaeda In Iraq”:
    Reaction from Al Qaeda: “Damn!” 🙁
    Reaction from Iraqi Ba’athists: “Damn!” 🙁
    Reaction from American Democrats and the Western Left in general: “Damn!” 🙁

  10. There was a video at the top right hand side of the page at the link. Maybe it’s taking a little time to come up?

  11. The only thing that bothers me is that those terrorists DIDNT know what hit them.

  13. “Allah has 10-14 new martyrs to fix up with girls.”
    W.L., Allah ran out of girls quite a while ago.

  15. Blowing the crap out of these little groups how come out to play is EASY!
    The big questions are – Where did the equipment come from? How was it moved around or hidden? How many more are there?
    Get those answers and put some heavy ordnance where the answers lead!
    Hint – Syria! Other Hint – Iran!

  17. ZiLLa:
    The only thing that bothers me is that those terrorists DIDNT know what hit them.
    I had the exact same thought. The only thing that would have made it better is if the airstrike had have first targetted the buildings that the terrorists were using for target practice.
    Then, hit the terrorists about 10 seconds later. Give them just enough time to wonder “WTF?”

  21. That mean 10 to 14 less terrorists for the AL QUWDA to use and where did they get those antiaircraft missles?

  23. They’re citizens only if they’re killed. If they’re captured, they’re soldiers, entitled to Geneva Convention protection.

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