Posted on 12/01/2005 2:20:57 AM PST by chemical_boy
Insurgents have attacked US bases and government offices in Ramadi, in western Iraq, and then dispersed throughout the city, residents say.
Scores of heavily-armed insurgents fired mortars and rockets at the buildings and then occupied several main streets.
The attack came as local leaders and US military officials were meeting at the al-Anbar provincial governor's office.
Ramadi has been a rebel stronghold for many months.
Residents in Ramadi told the Reuters news agency that hundreds of heavily armed men in masks were patrolling the main streets of the city and had set up checkpoints.
Citizens said leaflets distributed by the men declared that al-Qaeda in Iraq, the group run by Abu Musab Zarqawi, was now in control of the city.
It makes it easier to shoot them in the daylight. Think Hue.
Really? That was about the Tet offensive? Ooops. I guess I got so caught up in all the "Private Pyle, take my hand and choke yourself!" and "Numbah one GI, Me so hawnee, me so hawnee, me so hawnee, me luv you long time" that I forgot about the context.
And then there was another one of my favorite lines: "Right after ya finish eatin' the peanuts, outta mah sheeeeeeeee-it, Pilgrim."
Gawd, I loved that movie. It wasn't Patton, but it was damned good.
So True!
ROFL!
THIS NEVER HAPPENED...IT WAS A MOVIE BY THE TERRORIST NOTHING MORE...U.S. MILITARY COMMANDERS ARE SAYING...NONE OF THIS IS TRUE.
Cheese?
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