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Bradley fighting vehicles responded with 120mm tank rounds and 25mm cannon fire, destroying three bu
WDDavenport
11/30/2003 6:43:10 PM
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Bradley fighting vehicles responded with 120mm tank rounds and 25mm cannon fire, destroying three buildings in the city, he said. ..."
No, Lt. Col. MacDonald did not say that. Bradleys cannot shoot 120mm tank rounds. MacDonald or any US Army man would have been quite nit-picking about that point. He would NOY have said that Bradley fighting vehicles responded with 120mm tank rounds ... "
These words were pit into Lt. Col. MacDonald's mouth by some BBC so-called jouralist. I am sure that he did not say those words. The question is, what other fictions are in the BBC's account of this fight? "Lies in little things, lies in big things" says the Latin aphorism. If the BBC errs conspicuously in its description of US military equipment, why should anyone trust the BBC's inteview with unammed Fedayeen sympathizers? BBC = liars
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Many dead in Iraqi city firefight
The US says it faced uniformed pro-Saddam militants
The US military has reported killing 46 militants and wounding 18 in clashes in the central Iraqi city of Samarra.
Five US soldiers and a civilian were wounded in the fighting which raged as militants made a series of attacks on convoys in the city on Sunday.
But witnesses said a US tank had fired indiscriminately during the fighting, killing at least two factory-workers.
News of the fighting comes after a weekend of bloody ambushes across Iraq, largely targeting American allies.
WEEKEND OF AMBUSHES
Seven Spanish agents killed and one wounded near Hilla
Two Japanese diplomats and their Iraqi driver killed near Tikrit
Two US soldiers killed near the Syrian border
One Colombian contractor killed and two wounded near Balad
Two South Korean electricians killed near Tikrit
Three ambushes said foiled by US troops in Samarra
Ambushes in pictures
US spokesman Lieutenant Colonel William MacDonald said that the US forces had fought back with tank fire when they were attacked three times by militants wearing uniforms of the pro-Saddam Fedayeen fighters.
Bradley fighting vehicles responded with 120mm tank rounds and 25mm cannon fire, destroying three buildings in the city, he said.
"We're sending a clear message that anyone who attempts to attack our convoys will pay the price," the spokesman said.
Samarra is within the so-called "Sunni triangle" north of Baghdad - the heartland of Saddam Hussein loyalists. |
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