[Imc-aotearoa-ed] can we hid this

[clare]

http://www.indymedia.org.nz/front.php3?article_id=5670&group=webcast

note the last sentence

i'd like to hid this as soon as poss 


clare

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B-52 Litening II pod used in combat for the first time.

04/12/03 - OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM (AFPN) -- For the first time in
combat history, a B-52 Stratofortress used a Litening II targeting pod
to strike targets at an airfield in northern Iraq on April 11, according
to officials at the U.S. Central Command's combined air operations
center.

Using the Litening II system,a crew of reservists from the 93rd Bomb
Squadron at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., and active-duty airmen from
the 23rd BS at Minot AFB, N.D., flew the bomber from a forward-deployed
location and dropped one laser-guided GBU-12 Paveway II munition on a
radar complex and another on a command complex at the airfield,
officials said.

The Litening II pod provides real-time images, greatly increasing an
aircrew's flexibility to identify targets in a continually-changing
battlefield environment. The pod then allows the B-52 radar-navigator to
designate the targets and direct laser-guided weapons without having to
rely on another aircraft or person on the ground to "paint" the target
with a separate laser designator.

A spokesman for the Aotearoa Indymedia news organisation said he was
"heartened by the succesful use of this new technology" and was "looking
foward to it's use in future wars of liberation".