[antimedia] antimedia: More pure, unadulterated crap....

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Posted by antimedia:
More pure, unadulterated crap....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1168485552.shtml


   ....from a media that [1]hasn't got a single clue about what they're
   "reporting" on.
   The media?

     This operation appeared to be targeted on a village where,
     according to the Americans, terrorists responsible for the embassy
     bombings were hiding.
     An AC-130 Spectre gunship carried out the strike. This large
     aircraft, modelled on the Hercules cargo plane, is stuffed with
     cannon and machine-guns. The AC-130 is designed to saturate a large
     area with gunfire, hitting every square yard in the target zone
     with multiple rounds.
     So this was the very opposite of a surgical strike. Anyone in the
     path of the gunship, which departed from the US military base at
     Camp Lemonier in Djibouti, would have been killed.

   The truth from someone who knows?

     The AC-130 is a weapon platform that practically defined precision
     engagement. There are stories from Operation Just Cause where SEALs
     radioed in specific windows that they wanted taken out ("third
     floor, second from the right") and the Spectre/Spooky happily (and
     effectively) complied. That was 17 years ago.
     "So this was the very opposite of a surgical strike."
     No, the opposite of a surgical strike would be a B-52 carpet
     bombing half of southern Somalia. AC-130s are a scalpel, not a
     sword.

   Got it?
   You can spin it any way you want -- ignorance, lack of effort,
   misunderstood, misinformed -- the fact is, the reporter lied. Just
   like the ones who mistake a prop-driven C-130 for a [2]"helicopter"
   gunship when they could find [3]a picture of a C-130 with a search
   engine in less than two minutes.

References

   1. http://op-for.com/2007/01/spinning_somalia_1.html
   2. http://www.photohome.com/photos/aircraft-pictures/attack/ac-130-gunship-1.html
   3. http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/ac-130.htm