Thursday 5 April – Typhoons attacked two groups of terrorists and their vehicle in the western deserts of Iraq…On the night of Wednesday 5 April, two Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4s, based at Akrotiri and supported by a Voyager air refuelling tanker, were dispatched to the western deserts of Iraq, some 40 miles south-east of Ar Rutbah, where a surveillance aircraft was tracking a group of terrorists. An initial strike by the Tornados, armed with Paveway IV guided bombs, saw one aircraft attack several of the extremists, whilst the second aircraft destroyed their truck, parked some distance away. Within the hour, further members of the group had been successfully identified nearby, and were struck by a third Paveway IV.