U.S. Ground Forces In Baghdad To Look To Drones For Protection
If U.S. forces end up fighting in the streets of Baghdad, top Air Force officials say the best method for protecting ground troops from the sky likely will be the unmanned aircraft that until just a...
View Article'Dead bodies are everywhere' ... Saddam's first martyrs lost
Herald Correspondent Lindsay Murdoch, travelling with a Marines artillery unit, reports on one of the war's first battles on the Iraq-Kuwait border. There was little initial resistance as the United...
View ArticlePredator Drone Hits Iraq Gun Emplacement
Predator Drone Hits Iraq Gun Emplacement .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The first strike of the U.S. war with Iraq using a pilotless Predator drone was used to hit an Iraqi anti-aircraft...
View ArticleHail of Gunfire and Grenades Forces Apaches to Pull Back
Hail of Gunfire and Grenades Forces Apaches to Pull Back By JIM DWYER IN CENTRAL IRAQ, March 24 - With a hail of small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades, Iraqi forces downed two Apache...
View ArticleU.S. Marines in fierce Nassiriya firefight -CNN
WASHINGTON, March 29 (Reuters) - U.S. Marines were in a fierce firefight with Iraqi fighters on Saturday in the southern city of Nassiriya, CNN reported. Marines on one side of the Euphrates River were...
View ArticleIn the Skies Over Iraq, Silent Observers Become Futuristic Weapons
ASHINGTON, April 17 On the third day of the Iraq war, a mysterious American aircraft loitered high over Baghdad for hours on end, evading a withering barrage of missile and artillery fire.Even as...
View ArticleRumsfeld: US Used new Missile in Iraq
WASHINGTON - The United States used a new kind of missile for the first time in Iraq that can destroy the contents of the first floor of a building while leaving the rest of the structure intact,...
View Article40 dead as US bombs Fallujah mosque (Australian press coverage)
US marines pressing an offensive in this Iraqi town west of Baghdad bombed a central mosque and killed up to 40 insurgents holed up inside, a marine officer said. The bombing came after several hours...
View ArticleU.S. Hits Mosque Compound; 40 (Militants ) Said Killed
FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) - U.S. Marines in the third day of a battle to pacify this Sunni Muslim city fired a rocket and dropped a 500-pound, laser-guided bomb on a mosque compound Wednesday, and witnesses...
View ArticleU.S. Air Strike Hits Mosque in Fallujah
<p>FALLUJAH, Iraq, April 7--U.S. Marines called in an air strike on a mosque compound that was being used as a firing position by Sunni insurgents here Wednesday, as forces of a U.S.-led...
View ArticleU.S. Military Says 3 Airstrikes Kill 12 Armed Militants in Baghdad (NO...
BAGHDAD Three U.S. airstrikes targeted mortar launching sites in northeastern Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 12 suspected gunmen, the military said. The deadly strike occurred shortly before 2 p.m. when...
View ArticleMND-B Air Weapons Teams engage criminals (Baghdad)
BAGHDAD Two Multi-National Division Baghdad aerial weapons teams engaged criminal activities in two separate operations in northeast Baghdad April 10.An AWT observed three criminals at a potential...
View ArticleUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Kills Six Armed Criminals Near Baghdad
WASHINGTON, April 11, 2008 A Hellfire missile fired from a coalition unmanned aerial vehicle killed six heavily armed criminals in northeastern Baghdad yesterday, military officials reported....
View ArticleEgypt claims jihadists fired US Hellfire missile at government office
<p>Jihadists in Egypt's lawless Sinai Peninsula are using U.S. weapons to carry out attacks against the temporary government in the wake of the military's ouster of President Mohammed Morsi,...
View ArticleObama to Cut Tomahawk Missiles 10 Years Before Replacement Ready(Including...
President Barack Obama is proposing drastically cutting, and then eliminating, two missile programs pivotal to U.S. security, The Washington Free Beacon reported. The Tomahawk and Hellfire missiles are...
View ArticleMeet the journalism professor who says NRA members are treasonous, should be...
In a bizarre op-ed in The Charleston Gazette last week, journalism professor Christopher Swindell argued that the National Rifle Association advocates armed rebellion against the duly elected...
View ArticleChristopher Swindell: Gun safety debate is B.S.
Watching the celebration at the NRA convention over the defeat of background checks was the most nauseating experience of the day. I am not a New York gun control liberal, either. I support a shotgun...
View ArticleObama sells Hellfire: White House hopes to send 4K missiles to Iraq for ISIL...
The Obama administration is hoping that 4,000 Hellfire missiles might turn the tide in Iraq as the Middle Eastern nation takes on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Officials were told by...
View ArticleObama Reportedly Blocks Israel Missile Shipment
A new report reveals that US President Barack Obama's administration stopped a shipment of missiles to Israel late last month and tightened weapons shipment procedures to Israel, as tensions between...
View ArticleTwo Hellfire Missiles Found on Passenger Plane Bound for US
Belgrade, Serbia KATU reports that Serbian officials have found 2 missiles with explosive warheads in a cargo crate on an Air Serbia passenger jet from Lebanon to Serbia. The crate was tagged to...
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