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Saturday, 25 November 2006
Milbloggers Weigh in on the Flawed L.A. Times Story on the “Airstrike” in Ramadi

See previous: L.A. Times reprinting enemy propaganda? 

Patterico writes:

As I had hoped, some milbloggers are starting to weigh in on my post about that flawed L.A. Times story about an alleged airstrike in Ramadi. Several milbloggers have questioned the claim by the mysterious “Times correspondent in Ramadi” that 15 houses could have been “pulverized” in the alleged airstrike. They all seem to agree that an airstrike that large would be a massive operation that would be very hard for the military to deny.

Greyhawk from Mudville Gazette says:

I’d add that if it were true [that 15 houses were “pulverized”], this might be the largest air strike ever in Iraq, requiring multiple platforms to achieve that much devastation. A lot of other nearby structures must have been damaged too. It would be awfully gutsy of DoD to deny that any air strike occurred that day at all, since absolutely no one in the city (including the Reuters reporter Patterico cites who did not mention the incident - and every US military member there) would be unaware of it.

Neptunus Lex adds:

There’s no way to “pulverize” 15 structures with one conventional weapon, or even with one aircraft attacking, unless we’re doing urban CAS now with carpet bombing B-52’s or B-1’s, which I don’t believe to be true. ...

... That’s at least a ten-plane strike for TACAIR - hard to plausibly deny from the military perspective.

A blogger called “Lightning” at Op-for.com says this: ...

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See also: Centcom says AP’s "Iraqi police source" isn’t Iraqi police

Posted by Bill Faith on November 25, 2006 at 11:10 PM in Iraq, Islamism Delenda Est, Jamilgate, Media Malpractice | Permalink

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