Goodbeye Saddam!

[He219]

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A 30-foot statue of Saddam Hussein on horseback is seen as it is toppled by plastic explosives in Tikrit, 180 km (110 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday July 18, 2003. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

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He219

[Merik]

Thats one big statue.

[budanski]

Did the missles under the horse misfire? :D

[Argyll]

Did the horse Misfire!!?

[usa320]

IF they are iraqi made missiles, chances are they did... :lol:

[Haiw]

so THATS where he hid his long range missiles :D

[Beloved Shiv]

And he wasn't originally sculpted on a CAMEL because ... ?

[Haiw]

because iraq has an anti-smoking campaign as well :)

[He219]

Because Saddam loves Arabian Stallions. Remember operation Ali Babba and the guy with the FN FAL in the stables? In Arab culture, it is much more honorable to be seen on a Stallion than a Camel.

[Trigger]

What I find funny is the Saddam portion of the statue is bigger in proportion to the stallion. Compensating? :D

[usa320]

No, its to scale...guy must weigh like 400 lbs rofl

[rob]

you have to look at it from all prespectives. somewhere in iraq there is one very sad sculpter. ;)

[Seiyuuki]

I wonder...looking at those four missiles...real? fake??? The mind wonder...It conjur up scenarios concerning the phrase, "hidden right under our nose."

[budanski]

Or a bit like "Dr. Strangelove" :D

[Seraphim]

From the looks of it, the missiles are real and they used C4 to blow the whole thing up.

[He219]

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20030722/s/1058891763.4093730842.jpg

Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s son Uday rides his favourite horse Cassandra in an undated photo from the private archive of an official photographer for the regime. Saddam Hussein's two sons Uday and Qusay may have been found in Iraq (news - web sites) during a shootout in Mosul in which U.S. soldiers killed four high ranking Iraqis, U.S. officials said July 22, 2003. *******/Str

From the looks of it, the Tyrants are Fat and the Horses are small....

[ESCOBAR]

HE219 do you know if this was the 2nd battallion, 8th Infantry of the 4th ID...??

Just wondering cause i got a buddy over there in the 4th ID they set to come back in November but the way things are going now i dunno.

[He219]

ESCOBAR:


Operation Ivy Serpent

Staff Sgt. Craig Pickett

350th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, Task Force Ironhorse PAO

TIKRIT, Iraq - A sword-toting, horseback riding statue of Saddam Hussein came tumbling down in a ball of fire in final testament to the success of Operation Ivy Serpent. Engineers from the 555th Combat Engineer Group, from Fort Lewis, Wash., brought down the effigy of the former dictator on the final day of the week-long operation conducted by 4th Infantry Division and Task Force Ironhorse. Ivy Serpent was a combined effort meant to strike out against regime loyalists and other subversive groups bent on disrupting efforts aimed at stabilizing and reconstructing Iraq. The operation specifically focused on locating weapons caches and yanking them out of the hands of hostile forces who have been using them in recent attacks against coalition forces. Numerous amounts of both were collected during the course of 86 raids. The late night and early morning outings netted an impressive number of weapons that included: 394 AK-47s, 57 rocket propelled grenades, 507 standard grenades, 1,736 mortar rounds, 54 50-pound crates of C4 plastic explosive, and a variety of other illegal weapons and contraband, plus a host of Iraqi aggressors brought in for questioning. One of the more successful raids was led by Capt. Jon Cecalupo, commander of C Company, 3-66 Armor Battalion. His mission the morning of the 16th was to conduct an area reconnaissance of the northern sector of Mosem village, just a few miles northeast of Tikrit. While his M1A1 Abrams tanks secured the area, members of 1st Platoon, C Company, 1-22 Infantry, from Fort Hood, Texas, searched houses, yards and vacant lots for signs of weapons. Cecalupo said his soldiers had been finding a few AK-47s and other weapons in the houses, but "that is standard issue in every house in Iraq," he said. That was until they entered a large home where they stumbled upon a surprisingly large amount of weapons. At first, they pulled the standard three rifles from the home, but the soldiers kept searching and found ammunition, pistols and photos of Saddam posing with the occupant. With their energy levels fueled by the find, they began a search of the outlying buildings and yard. Soon, soldiers found a cache of AK-47s that was buried under miscellaneous rubble in an unassuming block building. As sweat-drenched soldiers pulled rifles from the building you could hear them yelling out about the immensity of their find. At first, shouts of 50 or more rifles echoed through the doorway then 100, and finally the admission that the stack was 4-feet deep and surrounded by bags and bags of ammunition. In all, 225 rifles were pulled from the building along with 25,000 detonator caps, flare guns, and tens of thousands of rounds of 7.62 millimeter ammunition. However, the plethora of weapons did not end in the building. A search of the yard found 42 crates of Composition 4 plastic explosives buried beneath the lime trees that engulfed the yard. Though the soldiers had been up since 1 a.m. and were literally soaked with perspiration, their faces could not hide the excitement they felt. "I'm really glad we found something," said Pfc. Jacob Lynn, C Company, 1-22 Infantry. "It's definitely a morale booster. We go on a lot of raids and go into a lot of houses with sad looking people. It's nice to finally find something." Finding large caches of weapons is not only an emotional boost for war-weary soldiers and their leaders; it is also a means to an end. "I'm just glad we took it (weapons) off the hands of the guy who could have used it against us," said Staff Sgt. Peter Venardos, C Company 3-66 Armor. "I'm glad we are potentially saving U.S. lives. That's what it is all about - everyone getting home." The bite of Operation Ivy Serpent succeeded in accomplishing its mission of making the area safer for coalition troops and putting a handicap on subversive elements out to do harm.

(Staff Sgt. Craig Pickett is a member of the 350th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, a reserve unit from Indianapolis, Ind. He is currently deployed to South West Asia with the 4th Infantry Division in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.)

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[Salty Dog]

he did make that stallion look small.

[specialairservice]

usa320 wrote


IF they are iraqi made missiles, chances are they did...

There proberbly french.