U.S. Launches Second Phase in Fallujah

ABC News ^ | 11/11/04 | Jim Krane, Tini Tran, Sameer N. Yacoub, Mariam Fam, Sabah Jerges, Katarina Kratovac, Maggie Michael.

[LibWhacker]

Not many cordons are air-tight. You'd need a hundred thousand men. The city is ten miles or more in circumference.

[Pox]

Such is the nature of "Urban Warfare".

[Tallguy]

They're probably giving a conservative estimate, based on bodies actually seen.

Ditto that! Nobody is exactly stopping to pick through the rubble of a building that got dropped by a battery of 155's just minutes before. And I don't think that the chain of command is allowing estimated casualties, ie. no saying "the volume of fire from that building suggests that there were 50 enemy fighters in there; we dropped the building, ergo 50 KIA."

[Zhangliqun]

Yeah, but it would be a good idea to set up a few ambushes on the likely escape routes.

[lillybet]

Appartly there is no escape route, I heard one Soldier say were staying till we get the lot of them.. God Bless them.