<Once we either blow up their first string mortars or force them to displace from known positions, they have become ineffective because they do not have the training/equipment to use their mortars accurately from an unknown spot, where they have not registered their fires. Anytime they try to do this from a new spot we are on them [mortars leave a big thermal signature] and they are toast.

Got the feeling there’s a little *maggot in this “American military officer”’s blood.

Senior officials only reluctantly discuss the matter, and would not say when and from whom the sample was taken. The fear is someone in bin Laden's al Qaeda network would kill any family member who cooperated with U.S. authorities.

And -- anyone think of the possibility of killing a bin Laden simply for a DNA sample to save Osama from a positive ID hit? Kidnapping a distant cousin and choreographing his death to look like the al-Qui’da leader would fail, but this fact would not deter an uneducated member’s attempt.

"Make no mistake — this is a fight for Western civilization," the captain told his crew. "If these monsters are not destroyed, they will destroy us, and our children and children's children will live in fear forever. America is the only nation that can stop them and destroy them. Only America has the strength of character and the vast resources to hunt these fanatics down anywhere in the world.



"We have friends and allies, but we are the leaders of the world our forefathers made and died for. Our Naval power has been the principal weapon of our resolve. Great ships and great crews have gone before us — Enterprise, Carl Vinson, Kitty Hawk, Teddy Roosevelt, John Stennis. Tonight, our enemies will feel the power of USS John F. Kennedy. It is now our turn to strike for justice and we will strike hard."





YES, SIR!

-- Sgt Dan (*former mortar-maggot [60mm, 81mm & 4.2 inch])