My Brothers in the Middle East
Sunday, October 17th, 2004
Just under a month ago a couple of my brothers left to the Middle East to serve with the Air National Guard. They are on some base in some country but as a civilian I am not supposed to know exactly where they are located. They can still use email occasionally and they just sent me this photo. A couple of weeks back Steve sent me a copy of a press release one of his commanders had released about these new 500lb bombs they rushed to Iraq. The press release explained that ironically these bombs were designed to minimize civilian casualties as they take out insurgent fighters who routinely attacks innocent civilians. Typically these strikes are at locations they believe they will hit
Al Queda leader Al-Zarqawi and his commanders who plans car bombs in public places and lofts mortars into populated areas.
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