What, they got Francis Ford Coppola running this war or something?

[NNN0LHI]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB8NLVG42E.html

Iraqi Terror Group's Claim of Responsibility for Mosul Killings Raises Fears It Has Expanded North

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A claim by Iraq's most feared terror group that it is behind the slaughter of Iraqi security force members in Mosul has raised fears that it has expanded to the north after losing its purported base in Fallujah.

South of Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi forces launched raids that killed 17 suspected insurgents, Iraqi police said. The raids included a dawn speedboat assault by U.S. Marines and British and Iraqi troops on suspected insurgent hideouts along the Euphrates River, British media reported.

The speedboat assault was the biggest operation of its kind so far in Iraq, with 130 troops racing up the Euphrates River at dawn Sunday in boats armed with machine guns and grenade launchers, British media reported.

Troops were targeting an area south of Baghdad, where Sunni insurgents have taken control of a string of towns and cities between the capital and the Shiite Muslim shrines of Najaf and Karbala.

However, the raid produced only a few small weapons caches and documents believed buried by a Saddam Hussein loyalist, British media said.

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Get the Roach...

[izzie]

1. I think it is just your Govt. at work.

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[radwriter0555]

2. Nah, that isn't Coppola's style, this is more like Bruckheimer...

All that for 1 alleged saddam loyalist.

Yeah, that's a bruckheimer.

[Kolesar]

3. Ok, what did Bruckheimer direct?

I don't follow movies as closely as you do.

[soup]

4. Darn it, had to look it up since I didn't know either.

He's a producer. Long list of films here:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000988/

Totally off topic - Loved 'The Ref'.

on edit: didn't, not don't

[lectrobyte]

5. big budget no-brain action flicks, i.e., Independence Day etc. etc.