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Operation Phantom Fury--Day 8-Mop Up Continues; Terrrorist Spread to Other Areas Iraq Live thread
Various Media Outlets | 11/15/04

Posted on 11/15/2004 7:01:02 AM PST by TexKat



TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: fallujah; iraq; phantomfury
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21 posted on 11/15/2004 7:48:05 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: ChadGore

Thanks for the link.


22 posted on 11/15/2004 7:49:34 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: TexKat; Rokke; Allegra; Wonderama; No Blue States
Morning all.. I thought the stair case was strange. Wondered if it would hold all them fully geared me ascending. Guess it did! so many of the homes seem devoid of furnishing & decorations..

I think the marines look so nice because our comparison often is the youth full of piercing & green Mohawks.

read earlier on another locale that the marine brass are thrilled with the good press Marlboro Man has created for the marines in general and the effort there.

In case you might be interested today is Military Monday at the Finest thread. The Mayor did today;s offering & his daily cup of (devotional) coffee.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1280226/posts
23 posted on 11/15/2004 7:51:17 AM PST by DollyCali (We can never repay our veterans...NEVER. Thank you all who served our great country.)
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To: DollyCali
Thanks DC for the info.

Raw footage

Fallujah Insurgents Still Fight

Should be entitled Fallujah terrorist dead stinking bodies lay in the streets.

24 posted on 11/15/2004 7:59:17 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: TexKat

I hope this guy is DEAD now.

I never used to wish things on people like that. At least never before 9/11.

25 posted on 11/15/2004 8:01:45 AM PST by Allegra (I'm Still Standing....)
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To: Rokke

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.


26 posted on 11/15/2004 8:04:32 AM PST by penelopesire
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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

27 posted on 11/15/2004 8:04:38 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: Robe
Notice the lack of safety railings on the stairs and balcony.. The house is either under construction or they don't have any OSHA types over there...

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!

28 posted on 11/15/2004 8:04:52 AM PST by Allegra (I'm Still Standing....)
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To: TexKat
One father of seven contacted by Reuters on Sunday said his children were sick from diarrhea and had not eaten for days.

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).

29 posted on 11/15/2004 8:12:23 AM PST by randog (What the....?!)
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To: Allegra
I never used to wish things on people like that. At least never before 9/11.

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


30 posted on 11/15/2004 8:19:01 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: randog
Re: I'd say it's (b).

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.

31 posted on 11/15/2004 8:22:33 AM PST by ChadGore (60,724,666 Bush fans can't be wrong.)
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To: randog

I tend to think (b)also or either some lying Fallujans. There are some of those out there also.


32 posted on 11/15/2004 8:24:58 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: TexKat

Yikes...all I'm getting is the jpeg on that link...


33 posted on 11/15/2004 8:29:16 AM PST by Allegra (I'm Still Standing....)
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To: Allegra
I never used to wish things on people like that. At least never before 9/11.

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


34 posted on 11/15/2004 8:33:41 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: Allegra

Sorry Allegra try it on post #34.


35 posted on 11/15/2004 8:34:44 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: Wonderama

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!!


36 posted on 11/15/2004 8:38:35 AM PST by duckbutt ( Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear)
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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)

37 posted on 11/15/2004 8:44:43 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: TexKat

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!


38 posted on 11/15/2004 8:49:14 AM PST by duckbutt ( Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear)
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To: duckbutt
To be honest with you I saw this coming from the onstart of this war.

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).

39 posted on 11/15/2004 8:59:45 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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Fierce combat kills at least 27 in Iraq
40 posted on 11/15/2004 9:01:23 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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