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Aero-News Network (http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=00e233f6-36cd-44e3-a6f9-63e17c4e4b92&) Another quiet day at the office...... :rolleyes:
SirPeterHardingsLovechild
3rd Jan 2006, 14:46
ORAC, from your link
U.S. Air Force F-16s provided close-air support to coalition troops in contact with enemy fighters near Bayji. The F-16s expended two precision-guided munitions with successful effects against an insurgent's vehicle.
However...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4577578.stm
Fourteen members of one family have been killed in a US air strike that destroyed a house in northern Iraq, an Iraqi official has said.....
....So far, the bodies of a nine-year-old boy, an 11-year-old girl, three women and three men have been found in the rubble.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. air strikes in Bayji north of Baghdad killed six members of a single family, Wamir abd el-Wahab, a spokesman for the Salah ad-Din provincial governor's office, said Tuesday. El-Wahab said three other family members were seriously wounded in the attack Monday and the father and a daughter survived relatively unharmed.......
In a statement, the military said it conducted 58 air missions over Iraq on Monday, including one strike by U.S. Navy F-14s in the vicinity of Bayji. "The F-14s strafed the target with 100 cannon rounds and expended one precision-guided munition with successful effects against insurgents placing an improvised explosive device," the statement said, but it wasn't clear whether that was the attack in question. None of the other missions in the statement were in the Bayji area.
In a separate statement covering only the Bayji incident, the military said an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft spotted three men "suspected of emplacing an improvised explosive device" late Monday, and "close air support" was called in. "The individuals left the road site and were followed from the air to a nearby building," the second statement said. "Coalition forces employed precision guided munitions on the structure. Local Iraqi police were the first authorities at the scene to conduct post-event response."