Posted on 02/03/2007 2:58:14 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Release A070202b
BAGHDAD, IRAQ – Coalition Forces targeted the leadership of an al-Qaida in Iraq related vehicle-borne improvised explosives devices network Friday during an airstrike operation near Arab Jabour.
Intelligence reports indicated that this network is responsible for a large and devastating number of VBIED attacks in the Baghdad area. They are also responsible for IED and sniper attacks conducted against the Iraqi people and Iraqi and Coalition Forces.
Coalition Forces believe that key terrorist leaders were killed during the airstrike. Results are still being assessed at this time.
It is believed that several members of the VBIED cell, in addition to the targeted leadership, were present at the meeting place immediately prior to the airstrike.
More information will be released when it becomes available.
Coalition Forces continue to tear apart the al-Qaida leadership inside Iraq. This operation significantly reduces this VBIED terrorist network’s ability to operate, and increases the safety of all Iraqi citizens, Iraqi forces, and Iraq’s Multi-National partners.
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That's OK, some of us may have missed the reports of this in CBS, CNN, ABC, NBC, NTY, LAT, etc. </sarc>
Good Guys BUMP.
Yup, the media is all over this.
GOOD NEWS bUmP!
Lousy writing.
Love it!
I love it when Freepers point out "lousy writing" in the MSM. So too much of it out there.
Translation: We blowed up some guys who made truck and car bombs.
I do too. But too be fair, this is coming from the military public affairs center not the media. Probably some young specialist is writing it.
It's funny how our liberal "betters" constantly use "'s" for plurals, can't figure out contractions (like "you're" instead of "your"), and don't use a spell-check.
Hopefully they were all gathered for a funeral.
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