Posted on 04/08/2008 12:36:49 PM PDT by mdittmar
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080408-09
April 8, 2008
UAV destroys rocket rails, mortar and 10 criminals (Baghdad)
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO
BAGHDAD – A U.S. Air Force Predator observed four rocket rails in an open field in northeastern Baghdad at approximately noon April 8.
The unmanned aerial vehicle fired one Hellfire missile destroying all rocket rails after the UAV controllers determined there were no civilians in the area.
In a second engagement a Predator observed a group of armed criminals with rocket-propelled grenades and a mortar tube in northeast Baghdad at approximately 1:45 p.m.
The unmanned aerial vehicle engaged these criminals firing one Hellfire missile killing 10 criminals and wounding two.
“We are conducting precision air strikes against criminals firing mortars and rockets,” said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, a Multi-National Division – Baghdad spokesman.
“We are only targeting criminals who continue to ignore al-Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr’s ceasefire pledge as they engage in a violent act or are about to conduct a violent act against the Iraqi people, their security forces and Coalition forces.”
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They went to the Jihad, only to get their heads blown off.
I sure hope that video of the Hellfire strike on the mortar tube turns up on Youtube or Liveleak at some point. Nothing like watching some good old American technology at work.
}:-)4
I want a RC plane with one of those...
Anyone else notice the new “criminal” terminology.
“...killing 10 criminals and wounding two.”
Anybody else notice that the term these days is “criminals” vs. terrorists or enemy combatants? Doesn’t that kind of reinforce the lefty contention that this is a criminal justice matter rather than a war?
Militant
They won’t have the guts to do that again;)
Great minds, and all that.......
LOL
HeLLFiRe BumP!
For internal consumption in Iraq. Part of the end-game to pursuade the Shia population to side with the government as opposed to the Madhi militia.
Yeah, I did.
I think the MSM is now tacitly acknowledging that the “insurgency” has been a colossal failure - so now they’ll call them “criminals” to try to spin this as “an internal Iraqi problem” that “we shouldn’t be involved with, so let’s bring all the troops home now!”
Actually I think what it says is that your opponent is not legitimate. Not a combatant, IOW's. Kinda Dissing them.
My take on criminals is that it implies that the Iraqi goverment is now the legitimate sovereign and that these people opposing it are no longer insurgents but violators of Iraqi law. Rather than elevating them by calling them insurgents, they are in effect saying these people are nothing more than common criminals. Semantics, but words have meanings and are important in a war of ideals.
Yes, but I'm sure that's just to make these stories more palatable to the average Iraqi on the street. I have also noticed that we don't seem to be taking many prisoners these days.... which is the way it should have been from the beginning!
I am really sick & tired of officials buying into PC terminology! The correct term is "terrorists".
Calling these terrorists "criminals" is a leftist tactic. That's because the left knows that words have meanings; e.g. "criminal" have legal rights, "terrorists" do not. So when the forces of western civilization embrace their enemies' leftist terminology, they lose...just like we lost "illegal alien" to the PC "undocumented immigrant" and continue to struggle against an invasion of illegal aliens.
I am certainly glad these terrorist scum were killed. But if we continue to allow our enemies to warp our language into a weapon against us, we will never win the larger war in defense of western civilization.
COOK ‘EM DOWN!
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