Posted on 11/15/2004 7:01:02 AM PST by TexKat
Thanks for the link.
Raw footage
Fallujah Insurgents Still Fight
Should be entitled Fallujah terrorist dead stinking bodies lay in the streets.
I hope this guy is DEAD now.
I never used to wish things on people like that. At least never before 9/11.
Apparently, alot of us had thoughts of the 'floating' staircase. LOL. Pretty cool looking if you ask me. Too bad 'socialist' building codes in the US would probably prohibit such a thing in my neighborhood.
A soldier of the 1st Infantry Division sits on the roof scanning the area in Samarra, a majority Sunni Muslim city some 125 kilometers (75 miles) north of Baghdad.(AFP/Mehdi Fedouach)
U.S. Army soldiers of the 256th Infantry Brigade of the 10th Mountain Division, rest while their colleagues man a 24-hour security checkpoint on the highway which leads to the eastern entrance of the war-torn city of Falluja, November 15, 2004. The surge in violence coincides with a week-old U.S.-led offensive against foreign fighters, Sunni nationalists and Saddam Hussein loyalists entrenched in Falluja. Military officials say many militants fled Falluja, west of the capital, before the full-scale attack, and there has been a spike in violence throughout Iraq's Sunni Muslim region since. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani
Iraqi man walks to view a blazing oil storage tank near the northern city of Mosul November 15, 2004, after it came under attack. REUTERS
Oh, they don't. You should see how they load cargo on trucks (and drive them around) or how they use cranes to offload large things like trailers.
An OSHA type would freak!
That's amazing considering the residents were given plenty of warning to leave, and if they chose not to they had plenty of time to stock food. We've only been there for a week, fer chrissake. This guy is either (a) a really bad parent, or (b) this story is propoganda. Considering the source, I'd say it's (b).
Neither did I Allegra, wish death on anyone, but this is so different. 9/11 and when you get time take a look at this:
#350 - "The World Without America" - The Music Video
I agree. It's really educational for me, as a news consumer, to see which news news orgs run what content. It tells you a lot about their editors and what ax they have to grind.
So far, the emebeded reporters that I've seen and read have been pretty much on the mark for what happenes in urban combat.
Blowing a few holes in a wall might seem like overkill, JDAMing a house before sweeping through it's rubble might seem like overkill, but as soon as I read about the house that was booby trapped and took out a few of our guys, and that did happen this week, I say turn them into rubble first and then sweep through them.
I tend to think (b)also or either some lying Fallujans. There are some of those out there also.
Yikes...all I'm getting is the jpeg on that link...
Neither did I Allegra, wish death on anyone, but this is so different. 9/11 and when you get time take a look at this:
#350 - "The World Without America" - The Music Video
Sorry Allegra try it on post #34.
It's a wonder to me how they can carry all their gear in that hot weather - - I wouldn't have made it 5 steps!
God Bless our "hard-body" Marines!
Whoooo Hoooooo!!
Iraqi men grieve at the scene of an insurgent mortar strike in the Dora section of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 15, 2004. The attack killed seven Iraqis and wounded seven others, including women and children, hospital officials and residents said. (Mohammed Uraibi)
An Iraqi man looks at battle damage in Beiji, Iraq, Monday Nov. 15, 2004, after a battle erupted Sunday between militants and U.S. troops in the main market in the northern town, killing at least six people and wounding 20 others, according to witnesses. The clash followed an attack in Beiji against American soldiers, who responded with tank rounds and Hellfire missiles, the U.S. military said. (AP Photo/Basim Daham)
Iraqi families leave the outskirts of Fallujah, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 15, 2004 as U.S. forces resumed heavy airstrikes and artillery in Fallujah and surrounding areas. U.S. ground forces were trying to corner the remaining resistance in the city. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
What is it with these Arab girlie-men?
Don't they realize if they had defended their city against the insurgents, we wouldn't have to go in there and shoot up the place? But, the insurgents come in and they bow down to them.
I'm wondering how long it will take for the Iraqi policement - trained by the US - to actually stand their ground and fight instead of running away and letting the insurgents take over the police stations!
If this is a culture thing, we're doomed to stay there a long time, backing up these skirt wearing girlie-men!
Those Iraqis that were not in with Saddam and his military suffered under suppression for 30 years. I don't know about you but I did not expect these people to put up too much of a fight if any.
I remember last year reading stories like mothers hiding their grown sons from Saddam in holes in the ground for years, men with their ears and other body parts missing because they looked at Uday or Qusay wrong.
Fortunately we have services here in the US that where the suppressed, abused, depressed can find aid, but these Iraqis have known.
I wish that they would rise up (women, men and all) and fight back. But they have gone from one extreme (Saddam and his goons) to another (Zarqawi and his beheading butchers).
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