Iraq: June 18, 2003

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An AC-130 gunship destroys a convoy of three vehicles carrying armed Iraqi near the Syrian border.

American troops raided two farm houses outside Tikrit and seized $8.5 million in dollars and several million dollars in local currency. One man was spotted fleeing the area as the raid went in, but he was tracked by a UAV and captured later, along with $800,000 in cash.

 

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