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11-15-2003, 08:28 AM
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/11/15/sprj.irq.main/index.html
North of Tikrit, U.S. Army teams struck a rocket launch site that threatened a Task Force Iron Horse base, a spokesman said Friday.
Lt. Col. Bill MacDonald said seven Iraqi insurgents were killed and another wounded as troops uncovered hundreds of missiles.
MacDonald said an AH-64 Apache helicopter first attacked the site Thursday evening after observing the operations.
A patrol sent to secure the site found three destroyed vehicles, including a flatbed truck carrying 50 missiles, MacDonald said.
A further search of the area turned up two bunkers filled with just under 1,000 BM-21 missiles that could be fired from a multiple rocket launcher, MacDonald said.
The wounded insurgent was treated, and the bodies of the seven dead were taken to an Iraqi police station so of next of kin could be contacted.
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North of Tikrit, U.S. Army teams struck a rocket launch site that threatened a Task Force Iron Horse base, a spokesman said Friday.
Lt. Col. Bill MacDonald said seven Iraqi insurgents were killed and another wounded as troops uncovered hundreds of missiles.
MacDonald said an AH-64 Apache helicopter first attacked the site Thursday evening after observing the operations.
A patrol sent to secure the site found three destroyed vehicles, including a flatbed truck carrying 50 missiles, MacDonald said.
A further search of the area turned up two bunkers filled with just under 1,000 BM-21 missiles that could be fired from a multiple rocket launcher, MacDonald said.
The wounded insurgent was treated, and the bodies of the seven dead were taken to an Iraqi police station so of next of kin could be contacted.
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