Posted on 02/17/2005 12:26:09 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
A large number of US troops were observed leaving Fallujah on Tuesday, with speculation that the withdrawal was due to Sunday night's attack by Mujahideen who reportedly fired rockets loaded with Sarin gas at a nearby US base.
Dozens of US vehicles loaded with American troops were seen leaving Fallujah on Tuesday morning, heading for the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. In a report filed at 4:25pm Mecca time Tuesday afternoon, the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported from International Highway 1, saying that hat he had witnessed more than 90 US vehicles including tanks, and armored vehicles, being transported on giant transporters.
The reporter said that the large-scale exodus of US forces from Fallujah added some credence to reports in the city that the Mujahideen had struck the US camp in the agricultural area northeast of the city on Sunday with chemical weapons. A soldier in the US-backed “Iraqi rapid deployment force” told Mafkarat al-Islam that the Mujahideen had allegedly fired rockets loaded with deadly Sarin gas into the US base.
The source claimed that more than many American troops allegedly choked to death in the attack. Reports coming from Fallujah and sources in the “national” army said that fires burned for a full 24 hours in the US camp after the rocket barrage.
As the result, the highway leading out of the city was closed for approximately three kilometers. The old road that runs from Baghdad to Abu Ghraib to Fallujah remained open as far as al-Karmah that is just before the US base but was closed from there on, forcing travelers from Baghdad to Fallujah to detour to al-Karmah, northeast of Fallujah and then make their way from there to the city by alternate routes.
Local residents said that the night of the barrage on the US base was akin to the first night of the US attack on their city, with all the US troops withdrew to streets and lanes inside the city. The chief of staff of the US military also paid a secret visit to the camp, according to local witnesses. Even the governor of Fallujah, Ra‘d al-Barishah was denied entry to the US base on the day the American official visited.
The Sunday night barrage was the heaviest attack on US forces in Fallujah since the Mujahideen reportedly evacuated the city on January 23, 2005. It remains unclear whether the US evacuation was forced by the events of Sunday night and is to be a temporary measure or whether this was a planned, permanent withdrawal.
Local residents believed that the Sunday night Resistance attack, which no group has claimed responsibility for, was carried out by the First Army of Muhammad that had promised before the US attack began in November to use weapons that would “surprise the occupation.”
Further, the First Army of Muhammad announced some time back that it had developed a locally made rocket that it called “al-Faruq 1”. Not long after, the group announced that it had produced a rocket called “al-Qahir al-Jabbar” that has subsequently been used to strike more than 40 US bases according to reports from Mafkarat al-Islam. It is unclear if either of these weapons were used in Sunday’s attack or if they in fact the rockets fired contained poisonous gas.
I have no inforomation on the status of US Troops in the Iraqi theater.
This has to be BS. Media all over would be going wild, if it was true.
Ha, ha! That material looks very familiar.
West and East German Propaganda Archive
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/index.htm
Agreed. That is why I wanted to post it.
It will be confirmed, or debunked. As long as people are aware the story is out there.
I guess that would mean someone DID have chemical weapons in Iraq... if I were to believe this story.
OMG my eyes nearly popped right out of my head!! But then I thought, "Why isn't the news all over this, or why didn't one of our trusted news channels have footage?" ;o)
Putting out a horrible made up story like this is just dirty! Grrrr!
and the beauty of finding chemical weapons in this manner is that if the libs tried to claim the weapons were not origianlly in Iraq, and terrorist brought them from Syria or Iran... then goodbye Syria or Iran.
I wonder if "jihadunspun" contacted CENT COM about this startling revelagtion before printing it?
CENTCOM.MIL - Contact Info
http://www.centcom.mil/contactus.htm
It is 12:45 AM on the West Coast. I have Fox News Network on. Not one word of this story, which I am sure is the product of someone living in the world of fantasy.
spelling correction: "REVELATION"
I would tend to agree. The story is 17 hours old by now. If it really happened, I think we would know by now.
Awesome. Thanks Cindy. You do good work.
"he correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported from International Highway 1"
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Mafkarat+al-Islam%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0
LOL! I am aware of the goofy posts. I hope this is one of them.
I am no help with that. I am just not familiar. Hopefully, somebody can clarify in the morning.
"Further, the First Army of Muhammad announced some time back that it had developed a locally made rocket that it called “al-Faruq 1”. Not long after, the group announced that it had produced a rocket called “al-Qahir al-Jabbar” that has subsequently been used to strike more than 40 US bases according to reports from Mafkarat al-Islam."
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22First+Army+of+Muhammad%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22al-Faruq+1%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22al-Qahir+al-Jabbar%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0
Correction: Post no. 15 should start with the word "The."
I thought Fox News in the wee hours was just a repeat of the earlier shows.
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