Posted on 06/02/2004 8:58:53 PM PDT by saquin
It also sounds like Basrah before the abused locals fed the Royal Marines the right actionable intel - after which, one night, the Brits swept through town and wiped out the thugs of Uday's Fedayeen Saddam.
It will get to the point where the jihadists will become so irritating that the Provisional Government will ask us to go in and remove the "foreign fighters".
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Oh, they do, they go down to the bar and then flip a coin to see who is going to go out and get a quote from the anti-American cab driver who hangs out in front of the hotel.
When the Iraqis finish with the muj in Iraq they will move on to the muj in Iran. I think it's time to mine the Iranian border.
Peace without procrastination bump
bfl
bttt
Thanks for posting this.
Very interesting.
As you know, this website was badly burned in the Hurtgen Forest, so it is well that this source is vetted.
It certainly looks like all this business lacks a "plan" (/s)
It's wonderful, as an OF, to see that the grownups are in charge, even if they happen to be in their 20's and 30's.
Good news again.
Old news for you. Source or favorite news site so I can read the story? Thanks!
Then you clearly don't understand the first thing about them or their position.
I'll try to find a better story detailing the Brit strategy, but this was the culmination of a several week period where they sat outside the city, played intermittant soccer with residents (where intel was eventually exchanged) and let the residents discover how ruthless and treacherous the Fedayeen were.
The Basrah situation was markedly different in one primary way ... the Fedayeen Saddam and Uday's security goons had ALWAYS preyed upon the locals. But, the Brits patience enticed locals to come forward with the info necessary to conduct precise military strikes. Sounds like that's happening in Falluja as well.
Saqin, thanks for the post.
Airborne, sounds like BZ could be an adequate alternate to atropine as an antidote to most, if not all, nerve agents. Atropine has a pretty short half-life compared to what you described. Maybe the "muj" are aware that artillery rounds that they adapt for use as IEDs could be unmarked rounds of nerve agent.
One thing that gets me is that everybody is called a soldier, whether they are in the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force or Coast Guard. While most of the other services will take it as a complement, I'm sure it bugs the jarheads to no end when they can't say "I'm a Marine".
This deserves a big bump.
What wonderful human beings! Makes me proud to be American.
While we're still keeping a close eye on Fallujah, the Coalition-trained Iraqi forces are now in charge there. We have to let them get their feet wet as the turnover is less than a month away, and they appear to be doing a pretty good job of it so far.
Thanks for the post. My first instincts were to feel that we'd made a huge mistake in Fallujah. When I hear reports like this, it's helpful. I do hope the Iraqis wake up and begin to understand that they will live under another Hussein if they don't give a darn, and fail to work for their future. It sounds as if some are waking up, but then again it's hard to tell. I certainly hope so.
--Boot Hill
Rokke, please don't lecture me. I have family members over there, and I believe I might have a clue.
and if the media didn't work for the DNC/enemies of America....these stories would be heard by the world
Heroin is the key to financing the global Islamist movement. Get a map and trace the fighting involving jihadis from Afghanistan to Europe and you've found the smuggling route.
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