where up to 50 militants were believed to be hiding...alerted by local residents

Where up to 50 militants believed THEY were hiding.

Obviously, their "hide and seek" skills were not so good.

Note to self: keep locals happy when "hiding" from heavily armed war planes...hand out lots of Little Debbies and John Kerry bunper stickers...avoid asking farmers if you can date their sheep.

House go boom and a sudden need for maybe 3600 virgins. Sounds good to me.

Video. We want VIDEO!!

I looked at the time on the article and was surprised it hadn't made more of a splash. It seems like a fairly significant event to me. So I went out to Google News to scan the bulk. Only mention on the first page I saw was in a Washington Post article about the Iraqi constitution maneuvering. There were two sentences buried five paragraphs down, with no logical relationship to what preceded or followed.

And now back to our movie, "Quagmire", starring the WaPo and a cast of thousands of journalists.

Can't a terrorist organization even have a fall convention anymore without being pestered?

I wish there were some way to give such a group 10 seconds' warning so they could know we were about to bring the hammer down and would spend their last moments scattering in terror, yet without any chance to get away.

I think bombing is far too easy on them. I'd rather see the house shot to pieces like the hooker's house in The Gauntlet. A terrorist's life should by all rights end with at the very least of few minutes of sheer terror, not quick and painlessly like turning off the lights.

We should have flown over and sprayed some sort of sleeping gas...

...then sneak in and dress them all up so they looked like Boy George and posed them in compromising positions...

...then put in some hidden WebCams...

...and waited til they woke up.

I would have paid $5 to see their reaction.

I think bombing is far too easy on them. I'd rather see the house shot to pieces like the hooker's house in The Gauntlet. A terrorist's life should by all rights end with at the very least of few minutes of sheer terror, not quick and painlessly like turning off the lights.

If you'll remember, the occupants of that house both got away. I'm fine with the surprise bombing as long as the jihadis all die.

You're giving the terrorists credit for being as cool as Clint Eastwood, unlikely to say the least.

The term "safehouse" would seem to be a misnomer.

They're cool - cooling down to ambient temperature right now.

Maybe it's just the fog of memeory, but I don't remember any Hooker House in Gauntlet.

Sure the Elf was turning tricks to get food, but he didn't need a full house for it.

Never send in a man if you can send in a bullet -

Never send in a bullet if you can send in a BIG F"ING BULLET!

OOOOH RAH!

if they achieve ambient temperature, they'll be warming up

"Say, Achmed. What's that whistling sound?"