I. M. Esperto
31st Mar 2003, 00:27
Cripes! Bush was right! These lousy Aye-Rabs DO have weapons of mass destruction! Two of them, and they are (sob) stealth, and can't be picked up on radar. Imagine what they could do to our Abrams tanks.
Quick! Get another 200,000 troops. This is serious.
"Armstrong raised his binoculars to verify what his driver was reporting. About two miles away he saw a tiny aircraft — with a wingspan of about 15 to 20 feet — being steered by a pilot sitting on a seat beneath the wings, “with a small engine behind his backside.” The “grayish black” ultralight was about 900 feet above the ground, flying in a straight line “as slow as a helicopter would,” Armstrong said. The realization that he and his troops might be about to shoot at an enemy aircraft hit the squad leader hard. The dominance of U.S. air power in recent years has all but eliminated the threat to U.S. ground forces from enemy aircraft."
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1720421.php
March 29, 2003
Iraqi ultralights spotted over U.S. troops
By Sean D. Naylor
Times staff writer
CENTRAL IRAQ — At least two Iraqi ultralight aircraft flew over a patch of desert Friday where thousands of U.S. soldiers and several command and control facilities are located. The appearance of enemy aircraft over U.S. positions is especially alarming because the military believes ultralight aircraft of the type spotted Friday may be used to deliver chemical or biological weapons.
There is one other alarming possibility, according to briefings given intelligence officers here: Craft like that might be used in kamikaze suicide attacks, a possibility driven home Saturday morning when an apparent suicide bomber blew up a car at a checkpoint manned by soldiers from this same outfit, the 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized). U.S. Central Command confirmed the report and said four American soldiers were killed. It had no reports of any wounded.
Maj. Gen. Victor E. “Gene” Renuart Jr., director of operations for Central Command, was quick to label the bombing as an act of terrorism. “That kind of an activity is a symbol of an organization that is beginning to get a little bit desperate,” he added.
The appearance of the aircraft caught the Central Command off guard. Saturday ...
Quick! Get another 200,000 troops. This is serious.
"Armstrong raised his binoculars to verify what his driver was reporting. About two miles away he saw a tiny aircraft — with a wingspan of about 15 to 20 feet — being steered by a pilot sitting on a seat beneath the wings, “with a small engine behind his backside.” The “grayish black” ultralight was about 900 feet above the ground, flying in a straight line “as slow as a helicopter would,” Armstrong said. The realization that he and his troops might be about to shoot at an enemy aircraft hit the squad leader hard. The dominance of U.S. air power in recent years has all but eliminated the threat to U.S. ground forces from enemy aircraft."
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1720421.php
March 29, 2003
Iraqi ultralights spotted over U.S. troops
By Sean D. Naylor
Times staff writer
CENTRAL IRAQ — At least two Iraqi ultralight aircraft flew over a patch of desert Friday where thousands of U.S. soldiers and several command and control facilities are located. The appearance of enemy aircraft over U.S. positions is especially alarming because the military believes ultralight aircraft of the type spotted Friday may be used to deliver chemical or biological weapons.
There is one other alarming possibility, according to briefings given intelligence officers here: Craft like that might be used in kamikaze suicide attacks, a possibility driven home Saturday morning when an apparent suicide bomber blew up a car at a checkpoint manned by soldiers from this same outfit, the 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized). U.S. Central Command confirmed the report and said four American soldiers were killed. It had no reports of any wounded.
Maj. Gen. Victor E. “Gene” Renuart Jr., director of operations for Central Command, was quick to label the bombing as an act of terrorism. “That kind of an activity is a symbol of an organization that is beginning to get a little bit desperate,” he added.
The appearance of the aircraft caught the Central Command off guard. Saturday ...