than this one:
Posted on 11/05/2004 5:04:43 PM PST by Sameul Haque
NBC News and news services Updated: 6:14 p.m. ET Nov. 5, 2004 NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq - As U.S. jets pummeled targets in what residents of Fallujah called the strongest attacks in months, more than 10,000 U.S. troops had taken positions around the rebel-controlled city Friday, bolstering the U.S. Marine units expected to lead a joint Army-Marine assault. U.S. soldiers blocked key roads, while Iraq sealed a crossing into Syria and interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi warned that the “window is closing” for a settlement to avert the offensive. Residents reached by telephone said U.S. aircraft were striking targets in the central city market that had not been hit since April. There was no confirmation from U.S. officials. Earlier in the day, U.S. planes dropped leaflets urging women and children to leave the city, residents said. As pressure mounted on the guerrilla stronghold, the insurgents struck back, killing a U.S. soldier and wounding five others in a rocket attack. Clashes were reported at checkpoints around the city and in the east and north of Fallujah late in the day. U.S. and Iraqi officials want to clear insurgents from Fallujah and other Sunni Muslim areas north and west of Baghdad so elections can be held by the end of January. U.S. officials plan to use a mixed U.S. and Iraqi force to storm Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, if Allawi gives the go-ahead. ‘Awaiting orders’ from Allawi “We are almost ready. We are making last preparations. It will be soon. We are just awaiting orders from Prime Minister Allawi,” U.S. Marine Col. Michael Shupp, commander of Regimental Combat Team One, told Reuters. Allawi, for his part, said Friday that time was running out, vowing to liberate the city from what he called “terrorists.”
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W.
El La Grange!
11/5/2004 - FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFPN) -- U.S. Air Force aircraft launched precision munitions to destroy preplanned targets here Nov. 4.
As part of Multinational Force-Iraq, the Airmen joined coalition partners and U.S. Marines in the offensive.
Shortly after midnight, an Air Force aircraft supported a Marine element and struck a preplanned target with precision weapons. The strike was against known anti-Iraqi fighting barricaded positions in the northeastern part of the city, officials said.
About 30 minutes later, Air Force aircraft also supported a Marine element and destroyed several known barricaded fighting positions. This preplanned mission occurred in the southeast, officials said.
Later in the afternoon, an Air Force aircraft destroyed two fortified buildings in the southeastern part of the city being occupied by armed insurgents. This strike on the preplanned target also supported a Marine element.
That evening, an Air Force aircraft destroyed barricaded fighting positions in the northern part of the city. The strike on the preplanned target supported a Marine element.
Since Nov. 1, multinational forces recovered and destroyed 129 mortars, 42 artillery shells, 38 rocket-propelled grenades, 12 rockets, seven mines, 126 detonators, 350 electronic timers, 16 blasting caps, 14 grenades, three sticks of dynamite, eight AK-47 semi-automatic rifles and more than a thousand rounds of ammunition. (Courtesy of U.S. Central Command)
Maybe this is better:
...orders from AllaWi...
roger that
KEEP POUNDING THEM BOYS!!!!!
JUST KEEP KILLING THEM!!!!!!
FLATTEN FALLUJAH!!!!!!!!!
The 300,000 terrorist insurgents in Fallujah?
More munitions that Bush failed to secure!
This is a good thing if Iraqi vets do the real work.
"Some told NBC News that they were with resistance units that fought former President Saddam Hussein in the Kurdish north. Others said they were Shiite fighters from the south. Others, however, said they were once members of Saddam’s army, a few of them having been involved in the invasion of Kuwait, the incident that started the first Gulf War. Sunni clerics have threatened to boycott the election if Fallujah is attacked, "
With a flattened city and a multi-ethnic Iraqi army cleaning out the scum, the Sunni clerics may find they have less influence with the people of Fallujah as well as other nearby cities.
I had the same thought when I read this.
Get real. Insurgents have weapons. We will be getting them. They had weapons and a lot were brought in through syria and Iran. Finding weapons now does not prove they were part of some stockpile that was looted. It is not like they didn't have weapons before we got there.
"Isn't that a rather unseemly bloodthirstiness?"
My mother always told me I was a war monger.
They have been pounding the hell out of them with AC-130s as well.
Can somebody here explain how tough these Fallujah Insurgents are to fight against the Marines?
Our enemies, and ALL those that stand with, support or tolerant them....can accept defeat, or die.
We are being a LOT less "bloodthirsty" than when we firebombed the wooden cities of Japan, or dropped the Atom bomb on Hiroshima/Nagasaki or firebombed Dresden..
It's obvious, there hasn't been enough deaths among the Islamanazi lunatics in Iraq to have them accept defeat and cease fighting the new Iraqi government...
I find it a lot more "seemly" to call for their death - to prevent them seeing to my family's death..
Semper Fi
Let's bring in the B1,B52s too
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