Insurgent Alliance Is Fraying In Fallujah

WashingtonPost ^ | 10/13/04 | Karl Vick

[Pikamax]

Insurgent Alliance Is Fraying In Fallujah Locals, Fearing Invasion, Turn Against Foreign Arabs By Karl Vick Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, October 13, 2004; Page A01

BAGHDAD, Oct. 12 -- Local insurgents in the city of Fallujah are turning against the foreign fighters who have been their allies in the rebellion that has held the U.S. military at bay in parts of Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland, according to Fallujah residents, insurgent leaders and Iraqi and U.S. officials.

Relations are deteriorating as local fighters negotiate to avoid a U.S.-led military offensive against Fallujah, while foreign fighters press to attack Americans and their Iraqi supporters. The disputes have spilled over into harsh words and sporadic violence, with Fallujans killing at least five foreign Arabs in recent weeks, according to witnesses.

"If the Arabs will not leave willingly, we will make them leave by force," said Jamal Adnan, a taxi driver who left his house in Fallujah's Shurta neighborhood a month ago after the house next door was bombed by U.S. aircraft targeting foreign insurgents.

[Vigilanteman]

Kewl. This is exactly what needs to happen. As long as it is Americans getting killed playing cat and mouse with the terrorists, Fallujahans will continue to harbor the terrorist, either willingly or otherwise.

Once it becomes clear that Fallujah will be leveled if they don't out the terrorists, then we will hopefully be seeing terrorists decorating the bridges as a peace offering.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Coming from the Washington Post, this should be in the Breaking News Column.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Coming from the Washington Post, this should be in the Breaking News Column.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Sorry about the double post, didn't get a response back, so I didn't think it had posted.

[Mr. Lucky]

You can say that again.

[JrAsparagus]

Just goes to show you, they respect force.

[hyperpoly8]

Who was it that said, "...and their hearts and minds will follow"?

[KevinDavis]

Looks like the tide is turning on our side. The name of the game is Patience.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Man oh Man, this is fantastic!

Locals chasing down the visiting Arabs to kill them!

Denying them shelter in their homes....

October Surprise!!!!!

[madison46]

nice. They should be held out of elections AND attacked. Let's see how the Sunni's like that !

[MEG33]

Good news!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Can we get this promoted to breaking news?

[ThirstyMan]

"If the Arabs will not leave willingly, we will make them leave by force," said Jamal Adnan, a taxi driver

That the Fallujahns themselves are tiring of the foreign Arabs causing such violence in their city is a very good sign...for Geo Bush. Not that this makes the other insurgents our friends but it's a good sign of progress, that's for sure.
Shooting 5 of them even?

Well, well when the Fallujahns learn to take out their own trash it makes our job a lot easier!

[Polybius]

Man oh Man, this is fantastic! Locals chasing down the visiting Arabs to kill them! Denying them shelter in their homes.... October Surprise!!!!!

The Washington Post must be a Republican mouthpiece. John Kerry says that things are going horribly in Iraq. It's anothe Lebanon. < /sarcasm>

[section9]

Ping

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Outstanding news....

[timestax]

bttt

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks to the moderator, you're in the breaking news section.

/so how will the LA Times and NY Times handle this news?

[kms61]

Hope it's true, but stories like this have been popping up for months now. I'll get excited when I see it actually happening.