Operation Phantom Fury Live Thread
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Posted on 11/08/2004 8:39:55 AM PST by epluribus_2
NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq - More than 4,000 U.S. Marines and Army troops punched their way into northeastern Fallujah on Monday, kicking off a massive assault dubbed Operation Phantom Fury that seeks to put an end to half a year of insurgent control of the Sunni Muslim city.
The prelude to the assault on the Askari neighborhood was a crushing air and artillery bombardment of the city that rose to a crescendo by Monday evening, with U.S. strike jets dropping bombs around the clock and big guns pounding the city every few minutes with high-explosive shells.
Meanwhile, insurgents in Baghdad and nearby Ramadi tried to keep up the pressure on the coalition forces with new attacks, including one on a Catholic church in the capital.
Earlier Monday U.S. troops had fought their way into the city's western outskirts, seizing two bridges over the Euphrates River and helping Iraqi soldiers take the city's main hospital in the first stage of a major assault on the insurgent stronghold.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
If you mean that post to which you replied, everybody knows about those things. They've been around 50 years.
Thanks, Meg. I think he is retired, right?
Lt.-Col. Scott Rudder
Operation Phantom Fury Live Thread
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yes..He is an embed.
LOL! When they said his name I had to walk back into the room and look at the TV to be sure of what it sounded like they said... then his name appeared on screen and I went "Phew!"
"AP reporter Edward Harris, embedded with Marines near the railroad station just outside the city's northern edge,"
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041108/D867QP2O2.html
I have and never will like the idea of these embedded reporters. I just cant trust them and they should'nt be that close to the fighting. Get them out and on the outskirts. Railroad station just outside? IS that a location given away? I mean ... come on...
Whew! I'm relieved to hear they left the child molester out of it.
The hell with arresting them.
Kill them all.
None of the coverage is very good.
BBC is showing news clips. Same with CNN, FoxNew, MSNBC.
None of the embeds apparently are streaming any feeds. Video clips seem to be from media pool, since they are basically the same.
Correcting myself after reading further, it is night in Fallujah.
They don't talk unless approved.
Ummmm....yes.
I guarantee the enemy over there knows a heck of a lot more than we FReepers do over here, sitting in front of our computers. The enemy can watch CNN as easily as we can.
But your point is well taken. Nobody should post anything specific here as related to individual troop movements.
"The info is coming from embedded reporters, who have been briefed on disclosure."
All it takes is one "reporter" to put our troops in harms way.
And one enemy in the US to forward a map to the terrorists.
Hehehe! How about "Operation Dale Gribble's Revenge"?
FNC: "Militants" bombed an orthodox church in Baghdad - 30+ killed....
What's that expression from WW II, "And you can tell that to the Marines!"
Not holding my breath on this one but that would be quite a victory!
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