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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


87 posted on 11/10/2004 7:00:17 AM PST by No Blue States
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To: No Blue States
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)
90 posted on 11/10/2004 7:11:51 AM PST by No Blue States
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