Not to be confused with Bowser.....
Posted on 11/10/2004 4:07:27 AM PST by Dog
Todays thread post all comments here...tunnels are being found in the southern part of Fallujah....per CNN's embedded reporter on the scene.
I don't think he knows he's an idiot until he DOES see it coming at him...
You hugged a soldier for me, you give us eyewitness accounts of incoming and skies lighting up..You are there among our military and your work is supporting our troops...
I thank you for sharing and caring.
Simple, when they come out with their hands up and with white flags, throw out handcuffs. order them to handcuff themselves and give them exactly 60 seconds to do it. if they don't comply, terminate on the spot, nqa (no questions asked).
Neither have ever been here, have ever served in the military and made the remarks from the comfort of their home.
I was hurt at first and then I realized they aren't my friends, never were. I feel sorry for them because they have shown their true colors as being very insecure with feelings of inadequacy.
Not to be confused with Bowser.....
US troops vowed Wednesday to seize total control of Fallujah within 48 hours:
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13608424
The USMC is also engaging in PsyOps :
A psychological operations unit broadcast announcements in Arabic meant to draw out gunmen. An Iraqi translator from the group said through a loudspeaker: “Brave terrorists, I am waiting here for the brave terrorists. Come and kill us. Plant small bombs on roadsides. Attention, attention, terrorists of Fallujah.”
[…]
US and Iraqi troops captured two key landmarks yesterday - a mosque and neighbouring convention centre that insurgents used for launching attacks, according to a Los Angeles Times reporter embedded with US forces.
”I’m surprised how quickly (resistance) broke and how quickly they ran away, a force of foreign fighters who were supposed to fight to the death,” Lieutenant-Colonel Pete Newell, a battalion commander in the 1st Infantry Division, told CNN.
http://www.command-post.org/iraq_index.html
Love your FR Homepage, I am adding it to my favorite links!!!
Just remember that fact....they aren't there and have never served.....I feel the same way when I read posts from all the arm-chair generals critizing every military move.....my hubby laughs at those posts, they are clueless....keep your head down.
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi responds to opposition leader Katsuya Okada during a Parliamentary debate in Tokyo Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2004. Koizumi reiterated his full support to U.S. military attacks on the insurgent stronghold in Fallujah, Iraq . (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye) 
DUBAI: An extremist Islamist group ordered its militants to attack key targets in Iraq in revenge for the US-led offensive on the rebel-held city of Fallujah, according to a statement published on its Internet site Tuesday.
The targets listed by the Islamic Army in Iraq, which has kidnapped two French journalists and has killed several hostages, identified 20 specific targets including the US headquarters in Iraq, the oil and finance ministries, military bases, embassies and major hotels.
The group gave orders to its forces everywhere in Iraq to "escalate to the full their operations... against the Americans, the enemies of Allah, their agents among the hypocrites and apostates," it said in another statement published on the site on Monday. "We urge all the Mujahedeen to concentrate (their attacks) on the enemy’s nerve centres and to capture the largest number (among enemy ranks)."
US troops with crack Iraqi soldiers surged into the heart of Fallujah on Tuesday on the second day of the largest operation in Iraq since last year’s US-led war aimed at retaking the Sunni Muslim city from rebels. They now claim to have seized one third of the city.
The Islamic Army in Iraq, which is thought to be based mainly in Fallujah, follows the strict Wahabist school of Islam and has claimed responsibility for several abductions and executions in Iraq.
Among the target listed were "the headquarters for the war on terrorism," a likely reference to the so-called Green Zone housing the Iraqi government and the US and other foreign embassies.
It also named the buildings of the interior ministry, oil ministry and finance ministry and listed military sites, embassies and major hotels. The Islamic Army in Iraq also urged its fighters to "film their operations ... to uncover the enemy’s lies."
Another statement by the group published Monday on the same site, addressed "the Iraqi people and (Islamic) nation" and denounced "the slaughter by the infidels in Iraq".
"Your enemy wants to split you and divide you... Your enemy is weak and terrified... Your enemy is arrogant. Strike him with all firmness. Make him taste humiliation and a bitter death," said the group.
The group has demanded Paris lift a controversial ban on headscarves in state schools to secure the release of French journalists Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot who were abducted in late August. Since its first statements in March, the shadowy Sunni Muslim militant group has never failed to deliver on its ultimatums and has not hesitated to execute an Italian journalist and two Pakistanis it was holding.
In September it claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt against Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi, a prominent figure who has now fallen out of favour. It was also one of two groups, which claimed the March murders of four US contractors in Fallujah, and the gruesome mutilation of two of them.
The group only spared the life of Philippine truck driver Angelo de la Cruz after Manila bowed to demands for an early withdrawal of its troops from Iraq in July. It also kidnapped and released Iranian diplomat Fereydun Jahani.
Unngh.
Iraqi government to offer amnesty to surrendering Fallujah insurgents
NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFX) - The Iraqi government said it will offer an amnesty to the 'many fighters' in the rebel city of Fallujah who have said they want to surrender.
'We have been contacted by many armed groups during the past hours to express their desire to surrender to the authorities', Thaer al-Naqib, interim prime minister Iyad Allawi's spokesman, told reporters at a military base near Fallujah.
'The government, for its part, will extend amnesty to these groups after it confirmed that they committed no major crimes', the spokesman said.
http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/041110/323/f6cmj.html
Our soldiers are far more important to me than the small-minded remarks of people with social retardation.
I hope our troops are all back to their bases soon and can be with their families not long after that. The chow hall is awfully quiet and lonely lately without all those guys laughing, cutting up and strewing their guns all over the floor. We miss them.
Baghdad Bob?
Several caches of arms and explosives discovered:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/11/10/uforces.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/11/10/ixportaltop.html
It's a hard thing to find that some friends aren't. I hope you take comfort in the fact that you have lots of them here.
Bullet hole?!
Presser coming up at 11am eastern
Wednesday November 10, 03:14 PM On the eve of a visit to Washington, British Prime Minister Tony Blair urged the US-led coalition in Iraq to "stand firm" as US and Iraqi forces battle insurgents in Fallujah. AFP 
Wednesday November 10, 03:14 PM A British soldier patrols the streets of the southern city of Basra. On the eve of a visit to Washington, British Prime Minister Tony Blair urged the US-led coalition in Iraq to "stand firm" as US and Iraqi forces battle insurgents in Fallujah. AFP/Essam al-Sudani
I do. More than you know. Thanks. :-)
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