[saquin]

"Insurgents were also organizing. Gunmen were believed to be digging tunnels under the houses they hold to allow them to move without being targeted by Marine snipers, Marines said."

Someone explain to me again why we've given the insurgents in Fallujah nearly a week to fortify their defenses.

[traumer]

Flood them like RATS....

[joesnuffy]

MOAB TIME

[DUMBGRUNT]

"Gunmen were believed to be digging tunnels under the houses they hold to allow them to move without being targeted by Marine snipers,"

This was on about page 3 of the Chechnya playbook.
It gives them something to keep busy, and off the streets.

[farfromhome]

[U.S. Marines] threw back grenades that insurgents tossed over the wall...

Yeah, but our guys pulled the pins out.

[river rat]

"Najaf is a holy place," said Kaysal Hazali, spokesman for al-Sadr. "If they attack it, God knows the results: It is not going to be good for the occupation."

Then my good man, get your filthy a$$es out of there and into the streets to meet your maker without bringing his house down upon your lunatic sheetheads...

If you refuse -- and use your "holy" place as a place of aggression -- then YOU will be responsible for the ultimate destruction of your treasured "holy" place....

We have NOT forgotten all the Christian and Jewish holy places the Islamists have attacked and destroyed throughout the world, for THOUSANDS OF YEARS...

Why must YOUR places be immune?
Guess what sheethead....that concept is so pre 9-11...Finished!!!

Semper Fi

[vbmoneyspender]

A 4-day-old truce in the city was crumbling amid nightly battles in which gunmen in larger groups have been attacking U.S. troops with increasing sophistication. Wednesday night the fighting began again, with AC-130 gunships over the city battering targets below.

All we are doing with this pause is educating them as to our tactics. This is what the Israelis did in the lead up to Jenin and the result was that Pali's were able to rig homes in the area with explosives so that when the Israeli troops attacked by trying to move from building to building by using sledgehammers and whatnot, the Palies turned each building the Israelis attempted to enter into bombed-rigged boobytraps that ended up killing a significant number of Israelis.

[WOSG]

I was wrong.
I was saying it was better to do this peacefully and let the IGC resolve something.
But oviously the 'ceasefire' has become a farce, where it is just giving the bad guys more time to dig in.

End the charade and finish the offensive.


Meanwhile, expect the "JENIN" trick to be played again by theise fascist terrorists:

http://israelinsider.com/channels/diplomacy/articles/dip_0204.htm#

n a press briefing Thursday, IDF Intelligence Officer Colonel Miri Eisen screened video imagery of a staged Palestinian funeral photographed by an Israeli drone flying over Jenin on Monday, April 28. Pallbearers repeatedly tried to carry a green blanket wrapped around a man who pretended to be dead, but kept falling out of the blanket.

[WOSG]

It takes the UN to come up with a half-assed plan like *this????*

The U.N. envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, said respected Iraqis should lead a caretaker government — with a prime minister, president and two vice presidents to run the country after the handover of power by the Americans on June 30 and until national elections in January. He did not say who would select them. Under the Brahimi plan, the U.S.-picked Iraqi Governing Council would be dissolved June 30, rather than expanded to form an assembly as called for in an earlier proposal U.S. administrators promoted. However, the formula would also give Washington a way to dissolve the fractious and unpopular 25-member council. The White House thanked Brahimi for his plan, but it wasn't clear whether U.S. officials would embrace it.

This reeks of media bias. for all its faults, the IGC represents a lot of different Iraqi factions. A single president cant do that. They ought not dissolve the governing council, but expand it with locally elected leaders.

Who am I kidding? The UN ruins everything they come into contact with.

[Ahban]

There is no truce to violate.

Was the vehicle that was put out of action a Stryker perhaps? Wonder how those things are doing over all.

[F16Fighter]

"Najaf is a holy place," said Kaysal Hazali, spokesman for al-Sadr. "If they attack it, God knows the results: It is not going to be good for the occupation."

Speaking of "Holy," perhaps Najaf may wind up as one giant crator.

[oceanview]

what is happening in these two places can (and will) have different outcomes. We will cut a deal with Sadr, because going full bore into Najaf would cause a general uprising amongst the Shia, and that would spiral this thing out of control. In Fallujah, we have more flexibility to hit them hard (especially if the Sadr situation is settled peacefully), any word as to whether more civilians are leaving Fallujah?

[Hank Rearden]

"Najaf is a holy place," said Kaysal Hazali, spokesman for al-Sadr. "If they attack it, God knows the results: It is not going to be good for the occupation."

Oh, crap. They're all "holy" places, according to the moron Moos. Anywhere the child-molester Mohammed might have taken a dump is a holy place.

Flatten 'em. Flatten 'em all. Turn 'em into real "holey" places, and do it quickly please.