Operation Phantom Fury Live Thread

msnbc, cnn, various ^ | epluribus_2

[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.

[cgk]

http://www.freep.com/news/latestnews/pm1246_20041108.htm

[cake_crumb]

We warned them we'd fire on mosques used for cover by bad guys to shoot from

[NonValueAdded]

Small plane crashes on Detroit's east side; no injuries reported

[freebilly]

Time lapse photo, that's the only way you'll see the "tornado" (not that the effect of the fire is any less devastating)....

[cake_crumb]

"FOX: The resistance has so far been moderate.....the terrorists had a thinline on the outskirts of the city.....and seems to be falling back into the city center"

They're going underground. Literally

[MEG33]

Shep is the typical reporter posing all the negatives...

[Lurking in Kansas]

I sure hope they give up, at that point.

I don't. In fact, I hope none of them surrender.

Kill 'em all!

[michigander]

Plane Crashes Into Homes Near City Airport

[ChadGore]

Question for Military people:
That smoke, above them in the sky . . is that from our arty illumination rounds ?

[cgk]

Plane crash in Detroit:

[Dog]

I am going to turn off Fox...Shep just used the term .....this "door to door thing"

Shep now on to the Scott Peterson case......and the plane that fell out of the sky.....oh my.

[pissant]

shep is a schlep.

[AZamericonnie]

Kofi is keyword for BARF alert!

[PureSolace]

Small plane..passenger and pilot walked away..two houses damaged..no details The plane looks awful!

Wow! If they walked away after what you described, God has truly blessed them. :)

[unspun]

I have word from a very high level and reliable source that the U.S. will not target mosques and that the jihadis will be safe if they cram into the city center mosques.

That's about as fine a way of incarceration as any, at first.

[Dog]

arty illumination rounds No...its daylight...illumination rounds are used to see in the dark.

[cake_crumb]

Try the cspan.org website. Look just below the ad for what's playing right now, to "Recent Vedeos". It'll probably be on there at some point soon, if not already

[Conservababe]

It should be dark in Iraq by now.

[Dog]

Look at the photo Chad posted.

[Gucho]

"not for long."

Amen to that.