Yahooooo! We have bombed the piss out of al Qaeda again this week in Iraq. Once again, the U.S. has gone after the Arab Jabour area where there are suspected al Qaeda launching sites and training camps. This week it was over 10,000 pounds of munitions dropped while last week it was over 40,000 pounds. I would expect it would be a couple of more days to find out the body count and success of this latest round.
But if al Qaeda isn't on the move out of this area by now, they will be this weekend - so be on the look out for reports of more captures and dead al qaeda. And that is a very good thing.
BAGHDAD (AFP) - The US military said on Friday it had renewed its air blitz on Al-Qaeda targets south of Baghdad, dropping bombs on sites it said were training camps for the jihadist network.
The air strikes were part of Operation Phantom Phoenix, a major assault launched on January 8 by US and Iraqi forces on Al-Qaeda, considered by US commanders to be the greatest threat to stability in Iraq.
A military statement said that on Wednesday 10,000 pounds (4,500 kilos) of munitions were dropped on bunkers in Arab Jabour, a Sunni rural area on the southern outskirts of the capital, reportedly used by Al-Qaeda to train recruits.
"Air Force B-1 Bombers dropped 19 GBU-31s (guided bomb units) on the site," it said in Friday's statement.
Last week American warplanes dropped 47,500 pounds of explosives in a 10-minute blitz on Arab Jabour in one of the heaviest aerial bombardments since the US-led invasion in 2003.
US commanders said 47 targets were hit in that raid, while an anti-Qaeda "Awakening" leader in Arab Jabour said that at least 21 Al-Qaeda fighters were killed. The US military did not mention casualties in its latest statement
A military statement said that on Wednesday 10,000 pounds (4,500 kilos) of munitions were dropped on bunkers in Arab Jabour, a Sunni rural area on the southern outskirts of the capital, reportedly used by Al-Qaeda to train recruits.
"Air Force B-1 Bombers dropped 19 GBU-31s (guided bomb units) on the site," it said in Friday's statement.
Last week American warplanes dropped 47,500 pounds of explosives in a 10-minute blitz on Arab Jabour in one of the heaviest aerial bombardments since the US-led invasion in 2003.
US commanders said 47 targets were hit in that raid, while an anti-Qaeda "Awakening" leader in Arab Jabour said that at least 21 Al-Qaeda fighters were killed. The US military did not mention casualties in its latest statement
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