Terrorists. The ones who murder children in front of their parents. The ones who take drugs and rape women and boys. The ones who blow up schools. The ones who have been forcibly evicted from places like Anbar Province, Baghdad and Baqubah by American and Iraqi forces. Terrorists are here now in Mosul. They call themselves al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). AQI cannot win without Baghdad, and cannot survive without Mosul. The Battle for Mosul is evolving into AQI’s last great stand.
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During the Jihad Shift, pilots use fewer precision weapons. They swoop in too low and too close to the enemy, whom they often don’t see until the enemy begins firing from nearly point-blank range on the Kiowas. Hellfires are useless that close.
Pilots are not supposed to fly under one hundred fifty feet but are often at more like twenty or thirty feet, though I have seen some fly much lower. In 2005, I photographed a Kiowa and could read the time on the pilot’s watch (without telephoto). I asked an infantry commander if he thought the pilot would get into trouble if that photo were published, and he suggested not to publish it, so I canned it. LTC Jamison leaves the altitude to the discretion of the pilot in charge, but generally they have to be either very high, or very low.
The quick and the dead: Truly
Another great piece by Michael Yon. Grab a coffee.
Awesome story. Expect lots of Leftard drool and spittle over this one, that’s if they have to guts to read the story past where their friends, er, the terrorists, get wasted.
Fine piece of field reporting from Iraq.
“Terrorists. The ones who murder children in front of their parents. The ones who take drugs and rape women and boys. The ones who blow up schools.”
And Taliban Jack stands up safely in Parliament in Canada and offers to “dialog” with the same breed of cat in Afghanistan.
What great men our soldiers are. And what a great man and great writer Michael is. Time for me to head over to his site and hit the tip jar.
What can you say after reading that. Respect.
Most of those on the left would not be fit to carry these men and women’s kits to the flight line for them.
Bravery and commitment in it’s living, breathing embodiment is alien to those who find it a political necessity to declare defeat.
I would give anything to see Hillary Rodman Clinton or Barack Hussien Obama stand in front of a group of these people and explain to them, in detail, why they are considered losers.
My respect and thanks to those who continue to carry the fight while half of their political representitives declare the fight lost, and a large percentage of their countrymen avert their eyes while supporting these politicians.
It is because of these warriors, and their BLOOD, sweat and tears, that there are politicians who are FREE to fly around the US telling lies to potential voters.
This is more war porn than journalism.