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To: Modok
You will read about it if one of our troops gets within touching distance of mosque and then the screaming and howling from the media will start.

Actually, our forces wipe out mosques (used by terrorists) all the time.

22 posted on 12/01/2005 4:10:34 AM PST by Coop (FR = a lotta talk, but little action)
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To: Coop

Rebels Briefly Control Central Ramadi in Presence of Marines

BAGHDAD, Dec. 1 -- The city of Ramadi and U.S. forces there came under attack from about 250 armed rebels Thursday who then briefly took over the center of the city despite the presence of thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops and Marines.

The apparent target of the attack was a meeting between Marine officers and tribal leaders who support resistance to the U.S. presence, part of a groundbreaking series of contacts that got underway earlier this week.

The armed men reportedly set up roadblocks at roads leading in and out of the city and conducted their own patrols. They fired mortars at the building where the meeting was taking place as well as at U.S. bases in the area.

Authorities said U.S. troops entered the town in force about 11:00 a.m. and many of the armed men slipped away.

Al Qaeda in Iraq, which distributed leaflets saying it was taking over the city, said that about six of its men had been killed. There were no immediate reports on other casualties.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/01/AR2005120100271.html


23 posted on 12/01/2005 4:31:02 AM PST by jmc1969
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