Apparently, people in the 7th Century were very bad liars (wedding "party" at Midnight, oh yeah!)...
The AWB Has Expired - Gun Owners Have Won Again For All Americans!
Posted on 10/07/2004 10:00:13 PM PDT by BlackVeil
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A U.S. air strike on the rebel-held city of Falluja in western Iraq killed 11 people and wounded 17 at a wedding party, with women and children among the casualties, a hospital doctor said Friday.
Rafah al-Hayat said the U.S. raid, the latest of several that the U.S. military has staged against targets it says are used by foreign militants in Falluja, occurred at about midnight Thursday.
The U.S. military said the "precision strike" had hit a safe-house being used by the network of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi at 1:15 a.m. Friday.
"Credible intelligence sources confirmed Zarqawi leaders were meeting at the safe-house at the time of the strike," an unusually detailed statement said.
"Intelligence sources confirmed that the safe house was being used by the group to meet and plan attacks against Iraqi civilians, Iraqi Security Forces, and Multi-National Forces."
It said such strikes had killed several Zarqawi leaders in the past month, including Mohammed al-Lubnani and Abu Anas al-Shami, described as Zarqawi's number two man and spiritual adviser, who were killed in September.
Residents and local doctors say many of these raids have inflicted civilian casualties in a city held by Sunni insurgents since a U.S. assault in April failed to dislodge them.
Zarqawi has become the U.S. military's top target in Iraq and a $25 million reward has been offered for information that leads to his capture or death.
His Tawheed and Jihad group has claimed responsibility for some of Iraq's deadliest suicide bombings, as well as the beheading of several foreign hostages, including American businessman Nicholas Berg, South Korean translator Kim Sun-Il and U.S. civil engineers Eugene Armstrong and Jack Hensley.
The U.S. statement said more than a dozen precision strikes had been carried out against what it called Zarqawi operational sites in and around Falluja since September, leading to the killing or capture of a large percentage of his leadership.
The U.S. military said an air raid on Sept. 16 destroyed a planning cell that included several suicide bombers.
Other strikes in September destroyed meeting sites, safe houses and training locations. Many weapons, stocks of explosives and vehicles rigged to be bombs had been destroyed.
There seems to be an awful lot of weddings in a war zone.
Wedding my eye.
until death do we part????
And at midnight.....
They need new material. The "wedding party" schtick is getting stale.
No honeymoon, I guess.
"Ah yes, marry me as the U.S. planes pass over, I promise you our marriage will never be unhappy,,,heck it won't even "be" for very long."
Apparently, people in the 7th Century were very bad liars (wedding "party" at Midnight, oh yeah!)...
The AWB Has Expired - Gun Owners Have Won Again For All Americans!
Oh yes. Another wedding.
If that was Iraq time, 1:15 AM, Friday, then it seems people in Fallujah have strange wedding customs.
Yeah and another thing, why is it always some doctor at the hospital telling the media that these were innocent civilians at a wedding party..
We need to drop a bomb on this guy...
Wedding, n. Any meeting of terrorists interrupted by an American bomb.
What a deal, trading one questionable virgin for 72 bonifide
Halal virgins!
I can see the ad. Come to Fallujah for your wedding you'll have an explosive time.
Maybe they figure it sounds more legit than the old "baby milk factory" standard.
Yeah Wedding, That is why they were shooting in the air.
How many "weddings" have we bombed so far?
Reuters headline appears to be taking the terrorists word over the U. S. Militarys.
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