Real news? I hope not--I don't want tactical information going out live over CNN.
Sadly, given the reports that Fallujah is mostly empty now, thanks to evacuations--I don't think we're going to completely beat the terrorists here. They've left with the other crowds.
The polical leaders of the insurgents have left the area and they have left the Kool-Aide drinkers behind to die. So OK, we get them. This is the Tet-Offensive for the Iraq war. That is why we are blocking the Syrian frontier.
Why are they given any combat spots at all after the way they have failed to report the progress over there so miserably? All the media wants to see is blood and guts and dead babies, while they totally ignore the humanitarian in-roads our troops have accommplished! To Hell with the media! Let them EARN their right to be on the front lines I say!
I hope that the Marines have looked closely at the lessons the Israelis learned so bitterly in Jenin. I can promise you the terrorists have.
I doubt that seriously. The Marines have been checking the folks who are leaving, and that started longer ago than just this week. They've been in the Fallujah area for quite a while, probably gathering intelligence from local folks who are disgusted at the foreigners in their town.