[Peace-discuss] Terrorist attacks

[John W.]

Yes, indeed, this is absolutely brilliant foreign policy.  Such a fresh and
innovative approach to the resolution of human conflict!


On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:27 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:

       Record bombs dropped in Afghanistan in April
>        By Bruce Rolfsen - Staff writer
>        Posted : Monday May 4, 2009 20:59:59 EDT
>
> Air Force, Navy and other coalition warplanes dropped a record number of
> bombs in Afghanistan during April, Air Forces Central figures show.
>
> In the past month, warplanes released 438 bombs, the most ever.
>
> April also marked the fourth consecutive month that the number of bombs
> dropped rose, after a decline starting last July.
>
> The munitions were released during 2,110 close-air support sorties.
>
> The actual number of airstrikes was higher because the AFCent numbers don’t
> include attacks by helicopters and special operations gunships. The numbers
> also don’t include strafing runs or launches of small missiles.
>
> Over Iraq, 26 bombs were released during 767 strike sorties.
>
> Transport crews airdropped 1.8 million pounds of supplies, mostly in
> Afghanistan, and tankers off loaded 85 million pounds of fuel.
>
> Reconnaissance aircraft flew 1,402 missions over Iraq and Afghanistan.
>
> http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/05/airforce_april_airstrike_050409w/
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