This is better news from Iraq today than the media's usual hand-wringing. I think we can expect more like this. Thanks to UPI for the report.
Iraqi armor and infantry were pummeled with air strikes and artillery fire yesterday after falling for a trap that lured the Iraqis into vacated U.S. positions in the central part of the country. The armored unit, including Soviet-made tanks, were approaching vacated positions across the open desert when two Navy F-14 aircraft swooped down from a bright, clear sky - the first after three days of fierce sandstorms - and released laser-guided missiles and bombs. Cobra helicopter gunships then buzzed in lower, firing Gatling guns and rockets. Plumes of smoke could be seen in the distance from the burning hulks.
"It was a feint and they fell for it," Gunnery Sgt. Ron Jenks of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, told United Press International. "We really lit them up," added Capt. Shawn Basco, an F-18 pilot acting as a forward air controller for the company.
Posted by Alan at March 28, 2003 04:40 PM