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U.S., Iraqis launch attacks in Falluja
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/14/iraq.main/index.html ^
Posted on 10/14/2004 3:27:27 PM PDT by jmc1969
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- American troops and Iraqi special forces launched a major operation in Falluja late Thursday aimed at disrupting future attacks by insurgents who control the volatile city, the U.S. military said.
U.S. warplanes pounded targets in the Sunni Triangle city, lighting up the nighttime sky and jolting a city that has been a hotbed for the insurgency for months.
1st Lt. Lyle Gilbert, a spokesman for the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said Marines, Army soldiers and Iraqi special forces were participating "in and near the city of Falluja."
The ground forces were being backed up by fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter gunships, he said.
"We've been looking forward to this for a long time," Gilbert said from from the U.S. base Camp Falluja.
"It's a long time in coming, and this operation is going to set the stage for Fallujans and for the Iraqi people to go out and elect their government and live in freedom and security as they deserve," he said.
Hours earlier, Iraqi national security adviser Kasim Dawood said the government was preparing to "smash" the deeply entrenched insurgency in Falluja if city officials failed to turn in militants.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: allawi; fallujah; hoorah; iraq; napalminthemorning; wot
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posted on
10/14/2004 3:27:27 PM PDT
by
jmc1969
To: jmc1969
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posted on
10/14/2004 3:28:27 PM PDT
by
Mr. Lucky
To: jmc1969
"We've been looking forward to this for a long time," Gilbert said from from the U.S. base Camp Falluja. BTTT.
To: jmc1969
May God grant victory on the battlefield and protection for our troupes
To: jmc1969
Pound the Scum into dust!
Bravo Zulu.
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posted on
10/14/2004 3:32:09 PM PDT
by
JOE6PAK
(The Pajamaheddin. The gadflies of the truth, the guerrillas of the ugly fact.)
To: jmc1969
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posted on
10/14/2004 3:32:59 PM PDT
by
Gator113
To: Gator113
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posted on
10/14/2004 3:33:25 PM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: jmc1969
Flatten Falluja! Then, come home, transport all the illegals back to Mexico and secure the borders of this "sovereign nation." You know, the U.S. of A. Remember it?
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posted on
10/14/2004 3:33:30 PM PDT
by
KiloLima
To: vbmoneyspender
It's good to hear someone talk like a Marine. I get so tired of these people like Kerry talking about getting the French in there and crap like that. Our restraint has been viewed wrongly by the cowards who've terrorized Iraq since we toppled Saddam. Now, let them have the war they want.
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posted on
10/14/2004 3:33:33 PM PDT
by
elhombrelibre
(Kerry's message to terrorists: Help is on the way!)
To: jmc1969
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posted on
10/14/2004 3:34:08 PM PDT
by
demlosers
( ONI: “Lieutenant Kerry wasn’t cleared to know what time it was!”)
To: jmc1969; Ragtime Cowgirl; Dog
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posted on
10/14/2004 3:35:55 PM PDT
by
Maigrey
(Member of the semi-naked blogger Political Operative Brigade. To H#ll with pajamas!)
To: jmc1969
I'm getting sick and tired of FOX. They use to be the first to break big news but this isn't even on their web-site much less been discussed on their cable network. It's a shame that the Communist News Network broke this before FOX, again.
Anyway,
GO MARINES; KILL THEM ALL, LET GOD (ALLAH) SORT THEM OUT!
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posted on
10/14/2004 3:38:20 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The war on terrorism is not for the weak!)
To: KiloLima
Flatten Falluja!Nov. 3rd!
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posted on
10/14/2004 3:38:42 PM PDT
by
JOE6PAK
(The Pajamaheddin. The gadflies of the truth, the guerrillas of the ugly fact.)
To: elhombrelibre
I wouldn't want to be a Fallujan right now.
To: Maigrey; M Kehoe; ABG(anybody but Gore); Coop; Cap Huff; oceanview; nuconvert
Yeah baby!!!!!!
We've been looking forward to this for a long time," Gilbert said from from the U.S. base Camp Falluja.
Zarqawi.......the Marines want to speak to you.
Get some!!!!!!!!
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posted on
10/14/2004 3:39:26 PM PDT
by
Dog
To: elhombrelibre
BTW, so much for the LA Times 'report' that Bush was going to delay the offensive against Falluja until after the election.
To: jmc1969; Maigrey; Cannoneer No. 4; TEXOKIE; xzins; Alamo-Girl; blackie; SandRat; Calpernia; ...
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posted on
10/14/2004 3:41:22 PM PDT
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
('Til further notice (praying for our liberators and allies, onward to victory), simply: *ping*.)
To: vbmoneyspender
I wouldn't either and especially their privileged guests who bring beheading and suicide bombings to the country.
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posted on
10/14/2004 3:42:58 PM PDT
by
elhombrelibre
(Kerry's message to terrorists: Help is on the way!)
To: vbmoneyspender
Yeah, I knew that one was a canard when I read it. I think they got that from the "doom and gloom" Kerry people. Remember "nuancy-boy" said when he gets to be president he's afraid Iraq will be a Lebanon. What a dope he is. He respects todays serviceman no more than he did his peers.
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posted on
10/14/2004 3:45:30 PM PDT
by
elhombrelibre
(Kerry's message to terrorists: Help is on the way!)
To: JOE6PAK
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posted on
10/14/2004 3:46:06 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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