Zarqawi safe house hit in Faluja
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As Charles Johnson reports:
All of this before we get to the real story. It appears to be a raid similar to Israel's targeting of Hamas leadership in Gaza. It is about time. The bad guys in Faluja need to keep their rear ends puckered and flinch everytime they hear an aircraft.
The AP adds:
How did the first reports miss the secondary explosions? That is certainly pretty strong evidence that his was not just someone's residece.
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The U.S. military said an airstrike in the city of Falluja on Saturday targeted a known safe house used by a network of fighters led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a militant accused of links to al Qaeda.
As Charles Johnson reports:
This is the way of warfare in the 21st century.
Any time the US military is deployed against an Arab target, Arab stringers for Western news wires instantly deploy Arab propaganda across the media, quoting unnamed “hospital officials” and random Arabs on the street to cast the most negative light possible on whatever happened. The strategy is fairly obvious: to pump out 5, 6, a dozen of these reports as quickly as possible, before the US has a chance to say anything. They know that most newspapers in the US will simply run these pieces without any editing.
By Tarek El-Tablawy for the AP: U.S. Missiles Kill 16 Fallujah Residents. (Oops. The AP has already spiked this one. Headline a little too blatantly biased, maybe? ... No, it’s still there at a different address, although it doesn’t show up in a search for Falluja. Hmm.)
By Fadel Badran for al-Reuters: Falluja Blast Kills 22 Iraqis, Witnesses Blame US.
All of this before we get to the real story. It appears to be a raid similar to Israel's targeting of Hamas leadership in Gaza. It is about time. The bad guys in Faluja need to keep their rear ends puckered and flinch everytime they hear an aircraft.
The AP adds:
U-S officials say an airstrike in Fallujah targeted a known hideout of a militant Iraqi group.
Residents and police say a military jet hit a residential neighborhood with two missiles, killing at least 16 people.
Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt says the attack hit a hideout of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terror network.
Kimmitt says the blast caused ``multiple secondary explosions'' of ammunition and roadside bomb materials.
U-S sources say they believe several militants were in the house at the time of the attack -- but they don't know if al-Zarqawi himself was there.
How did the first reports miss the secondary explosions? That is certainly pretty strong evidence that his was not just someone's residece.
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