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House by house, Falluja falls
Guardian ^ | 11/10/04 | Rory McCarthy

Posted on 11/09/2004 7:06:49 PM PST by Pikamax

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1 posted on 11/09/2004 7:06:50 PM PST by Pikamax
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To: Pikamax

Battle on, mates! More jihadis have an opportunity to become martyrs en masse.


2 posted on 11/09/2004 7:10:02 PM PST by Army Air Corps (One John is unemployed and the other will soon get a pink slip)
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To: Pikamax; Travis McGee; Jeff Head

so they are telling us the leadership has flown the coop.

figures the leaders got away...
after anouncing our intentions to pacify the city for what... the last eight weeks?

so have they now set up in another region which we will again anounce beforehand that we are going to attack?

stupid.
and frustrating to hear.

perhaps propaganda?


3 posted on 11/09/2004 7:11:51 PM PST by Robert_Paulson2 (the madridification of our election... failed.)
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To: Pikamax

It's like one giant episode of COPS.


4 posted on 11/09/2004 7:12:15 PM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: Army Air Corps; Pikamax
This is going to over in a flash it appears.

Related item:

The Enemy Starts to Collapse

5 posted on 11/09/2004 7:15:22 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Pikamax; blam; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; Dog; tubebender

fyi


6 posted on 11/09/2004 7:16:25 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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I am pleantly surprised at the speed with which we are moving though Fallujah. I just hope that we leave nothing but jihadi bits in our wake.


7 posted on 11/09/2004 7:17:22 PM PST by Army Air Corps (One John is unemployed and the other will soon get a pink slip)
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To: Army Air Corps

pleantly = pleasantly


8 posted on 11/09/2004 7:18:03 PM PST by Army Air Corps (One John is unemployed and the other will soon get a pink slip)
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To: Pikamax

Cut out the living guts of these terrorists and use them to grease the treads of your tanks.


9 posted on 11/09/2004 7:25:45 PM PST by The Great RJ
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"My concern now is only one - not to allow any enemy to escape," said Colonel Michael Formica, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division. "I want them killed or captured as they flee."

Perhaps with some additional billboard advertising they could have achieved complete non-surprise.

10 posted on 11/09/2004 7:30:17 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Democrat Obstructionists will be Daschled!)
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To: Brad Cloven

Yeah, what was with that, anyway? Loose lips sink ships.


11 posted on 11/09/2004 7:33:29 PM PST by Inkie (Surround Fallujia and start shooting.)
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To: Army Air Corps

On CNN, Wolf had an ex-Marine officier on that was saying that some number of the Terrorists may be holed up waiting for things to calm down and after some period , will come out of their cover and start causing destruction again...... perhaps after the Marines leave and we turn it over to the Iraqi Forces....


12 posted on 11/09/2004 7:38:08 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Did I miss the part of how many enemy were killed?


13 posted on 11/09/2004 7:39:10 PM PST by opbuzz (Right way, wrong way, Marine way)
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To: Robert_Paulson2

Probably true. Our enemy is a fearsome opponent.....against unamred citizens living a peaceful life. These cowards ran like chicken$hit Jihadi scum always do when they see real men, like the Marines or a US Army grunt. When is the last time an arabic or muslim country had an army worth a crap? They are all cowards or fanatically stupid. The best they can do is hide in buildings and blow up APCs. I have seen so many clips of these 3rd world losers get wasted by an apache or a Spectre. Its almost like a dark version of candid camera watching these retarted jihadis running around in circles in infrared before they are split in half by a 20mm cannon from 13,000 feet.


14 posted on 11/09/2004 7:40:27 PM PST by ChinaThreat
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Sami al Jumahli was referred to in another article by Reuters earlier today, as " a doctor who escaped being arrested" at the captured hospital. I don't know about you but for me it colours the testimony a little bit.
15 posted on 11/09/2004 7:59:38 PM PST by nothernlights
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"Although some officers reported heavy resistance in some districts, overall the insurgents appeared to have put up less of a coordinated fight than expected."

Why would they expect that? The terrorists have little discipline or training and have repeated demonstrated that they prefer murdering children by remote control than fighting Marines and dying.


16 posted on 11/09/2004 8:02:42 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (God is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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"He added that he believed the Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was among those who had left the city."

We have simply got to grease this guy, no matter the cost or the time spent. I wish that our troops will be home soon, but Zarqawi must be dead before that happens. IMHO he is a bigger target than OBL, and that's saying something. He needs killin'.......

17 posted on 11/09/2004 8:04:05 PM PST by yooper (If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there......)
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Might they be using tunnels?


18 posted on 11/09/2004 8:07:10 PM PST by DCPatriot (I don't do politically correct very well either.)
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19 posted on 11/09/2004 8:08:17 PM PST by Jackknife (.......Land of the Free,because of the Brave.)
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Someone help me understand this - we provide plenty of notice, allow most of the occupants of the city to leave, then go in? How does this help? The only thing I can think it would do is get the resistance leadership on the move, perhaps making them easier to track down. Otherwise, this whole assault doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It would make more sense if we would have just nailed them without warning.


20 posted on 11/09/2004 8:26:00 PM PST by dware (Go then. There are other worlds than these.)
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