Showing posts with label airstrikes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label airstrikes. Show all posts

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Nato strike 'kills Saif al-Arab Gaddafi

Muammar Gaddafi was in the Building but of course he was unhurt, Some of his grandsons were killed also.
Just wondering, besides being dead, what kind of a moron brings his kids to see Grampa in the middle of a war? especially when Grampa is the one everyone wants dead!

BBC
A Nato air strike in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, has killed the son of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, a government spokesman has said.

Saif al-Arab and three of Col Gaddafi's grandchildren died at their villa in the Bab al-Aziziya compound, he said.

The Libyan leader himself was in the villa at the time, the spokesman said, but was unharmed.

Nato said it had hit a "known command-and-control building" in the area, adding it did not "target individuals".

An alliance spokesman, Lt Gen Charles Bouchard, said "all Nato's targets are military in nature".

He added that he was aware of reports that members of Col Gaddafi's family had been killed, but made no further comment.

"We regret all loss of life, especially the innocent civilians being harmed as a result of the ongoing conflict," said Lt Gen Bouchard.

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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Fresh air strikes hit eastern Libyan towns

Dictators are always good for creating havoc, Mommar Qaddafi, he is no different.

Airstrikes against his people, airstrikes on his oil fields, what a nut.

The U.S. Navy perched off the coast, Obama doing the Ostrich Dance, nothing will change, maybe nothing should.

Momad Qadaffy may still be in Charge after this.


Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Two towns in eastern Libyan were bombed for a second day Thursday, witnesses said, hours after the government denounced reports of attacks on protesters and military facilities.

Two bombs were dropped on military camps in Ajdabiya, a tribal leader said. Another bomb fell in al-Brega between the oil facility and the airport Thursday, but there were no injuries or damage, witnesses said.

The attacks come a day after ground and air attacks on al-Brega, which has key oil and natural gas facilities.

On Wednesday, aircraft dropped bombs near the town and troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi launched a ground attack, witnesses said. Aircraft also bombed military camps on the outskirts of Ajdabiya on the same day, witnesses said.

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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Scores of Taliban Killed in 2 Airstrikes

Excellent , Just brightens my otherwise Blustery Day !

Who says that Hellfire Missiles aren't worth the Money to make them !



The New York Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Two separate attacks killed more than 70 Taliban insurgents on Saturday, NATO officials said, although some local residents said that civilians were among the victims.

In eastern Laghman Province, a combined force of Afghan and coalition soldiers airlifted troops into the Masooda village in the Alishing district to clear the area of insurgents, the international forces said in a statement. After coming under fire, they called for air support, and 32 insurgents were killed, according to Afghan police officials. NATO officials separately put the death toll at “more than 30.”

Several hours after the early-morning engagement, according to the provincial police chief, Ghulam Aziz, a group of more than 100 local residents held an angry demonstration in Mihtarlam, the capital of the province, and police dispersed them with fire hoses and gunshots in the air...


In the other encounter, in eastern Khost Province, 42 insurgents were killed at about 2 a.m. on Saturday when they were spotted trying to cross the border from Pakistan, said Maj. Stephen Platt, a NATO spokesman at Forward Operating Base Salerno.

The Khost provincial police chief, Gen. Abdul Hakim Isahqzai, put the insurgent death toll even higher, with at least 82 killed and reports that the final toll may reach 200. There were no complaints of civilian casualties in that encounter, in the Mogholgai region of the Gurboz district.

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Monday, September 13, 2010

NATO airstrikes kill 14 insurgents



Foxnews
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A series of NATO airstrikes killed 14 insurgents in central Afghanistan after a joint patrol with Afghan soldiers came under fire, the Western military alliance said Monday.

The clash happened Sunday while the patrol was crossing a river in Uruzgan province, NATO said in a statement.

NATO troops requested air support after receiving small-arms fire and concluding there was no danger of civilian casualties, it said.

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