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Major operation under way in Sunni insurgent base in Baghdad (B-1s over Baghdad)
Zee News ^ | February 15 2007

Posted on 02/15/2007 7:21:04 AM PST by jmc1969

Thunderous booms were heard across Baghdad as US and Iraqi forces launched a major operation in a Sunni insurgent-infested neighborhood on Thursday, a spokesman said.

Iraqi Army Brig. Qassim Moussawi, spokesman for the Iraqi commander of the Baghdad security plan, said a joint US-Iraqi force had moved into the southern neighborhood of Dora.

The statement came a day after thousands of US troops swept house-to-house through mostly Shiite areas near a militia stronghold in northeastern Baghdad in the opening phase of the long-awaited Baghdad security crackdown.

(Excerpt) Read more at zeenews.com ...


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According to Omar at ITM the US is sending B-1s over Baghdad for the first time in four years.

I wish we had a commander in Iraq and a SoD two years ago that instead of thinking we could slide out of Iraq after training X number of Iraqi troops instead wanted to kick ass and win.

1 posted on 02/15/2007 7:21:06 AM PST by jmc1969
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To: Dog Gone

Omar has pictures of the B-1 bombers

http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/


2 posted on 02/15/2007 7:21:41 AM PST by jmc1969
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To: jmc1969

Mookie was wise to bug out.


3 posted on 02/15/2007 7:21:43 AM PST by AU72
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To: jmc1969

Send the B-52's and carpet bomb them.


4 posted on 02/15/2007 7:23:22 AM PST by sgtbono2002 (I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
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To: AU72

When I was a young lad in the USAF, I worked on the defensive testing for the B-1b at Edwards.
I can tell you, when it flys over your head at .95 mach at 500 ft off the ground, its really impressive. You don't hear it till its right on top of you.


5 posted on 02/15/2007 7:24:29 AM PST by Holicheese (Beerfest could be the greatest movie ever made!)
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To: jmc1969

Lets roll!


6 posted on 02/15/2007 7:24:36 AM PST by rusureitflies? (OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD! There, I said it. Prove me wrong.)
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To: Holicheese
I can tell you, when it flys over your head at .95 mach at 500 ft off the ground, its really impressive.

Lot of soiled sheets in the Sunni neighborhoods today.

7 posted on 02/15/2007 7:27:16 AM PST by AU72
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To: AU72

Oh yea, We were on the dry lake bed with our truck full of gear and I was on the roof looking for the plane. I knew it was coming but I had to locate it. It came out of no where and roared (I mean ROARED) over my head. I thought it would hit me it looke dthat low. I almost soiled my BDUs.
I can only imagine what Al Sadr must be thinking.


8 posted on 02/15/2007 7:31:39 AM PST by Holicheese (Beerfest could be the greatest movie ever made!)
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To: Dog; Coop; AdmSmith; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Boot Hill; Straight Vermonter; Calpernia; Deetes; ...

Looky here . . .


9 posted on 02/15/2007 7:32:01 AM PST by Cap Huff
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To: Holicheese
"You don't hear it till its right on top of you.

Elsewhere, it's being reported that blind people are having the same problem with the Toyota Prius.

10 posted on 02/15/2007 7:33:18 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Voted Free Republic's Most Eligible Bachelor: 2006. Love them Diebold machines.)
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To: jmc1969

Dear God, be with each and every soldier defending this nation and other nations looking for freedom. Give each, supernatural insight and discernment. Give them life saving miracles. Encourage and strengthen them in hard times. Father, we look up to heaven and ask You to hear us; You fight this war; You give us victory. We humbly ask for favor, for victory, Amen


11 posted on 02/15/2007 7:33:58 AM PST by Linda Sandoval
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To: jmc1969

Is Anna Nicole's baby and/or body there? If not, we won't see much about it on Fox...

;)


12 posted on 02/15/2007 7:35:18 AM PST by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: Joe 6-pack

Everytime I see a Prius, I think it looks like a toy car.
They always have a Think Globally Act Locally bumpersticker on it.


13 posted on 02/15/2007 7:35:25 AM PST by Holicheese (Beerfest could be the greatest movie ever made!)
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To: jmc1969; Cap Huff

King David is playing to win..


14 posted on 02/15/2007 7:36:01 AM PST by Dog
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To: jmc1969

(B-1s over Baghdad)

Is this the sequel to Bullets Over Broadway?


15 posted on 02/15/2007 7:36:57 AM PST by TheRobb7 (Border security is NOT Racism...it's PATRIOTISM.)
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To: jmc1969

And there was a lot of air action yeaterday, bombing IED planters, in Baghdad, which was considered too rough in the old Rules of Engagement. There were at least 3 such attacks yesterday.


16 posted on 02/15/2007 7:38:41 AM PST by cookcounty (Regarding the Democrat Iraq Plan: "Is that a blank sheet of paper or a white flag in your pocket?")
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To: Holicheese
I can tell you, when it flys over your head at .95 mach at 500 ft off the ground, its really impressive.

When it flys over SE Tennessee at Mach 1+ the shock wave knocks stuff off the walls of my hangar......

17 posted on 02/15/2007 7:38:48 AM PST by Thermalseeker (Just the facts, ma'am)
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To: Holicheese

looke dthat low

have you read albabys book on spelling


18 posted on 02/15/2007 7:39:23 AM PST by al baby (Hi mom)
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To: Thermalseeker

We had a big old cement bunker up on "Rocket Ridge" which overlooks the flightline and the dry lake bed. They used to test roickets engines up there.
When the planes would break mach 1, the walls of the bunker would visably flex. The first dozen times that it happened, it scared the bejezzes out of me. After that, I never even noticed it.


19 posted on 02/15/2007 7:41:50 AM PST by Holicheese (Beerfest could be the greatest movie ever made!)
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To: al baby

ROFL!


20 posted on 02/15/2007 7:42:05 AM PST by Dog
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