Thats the only way I see Mooky being out of the picture. An unfortunate accident.
Besides this being a war on the battlefield, it is also a political one. President GWB, his administration, and some of the American people versus the Arab islamic clerics and Arab people in power in multiple Arab countries that resist democracy and want to keep their people in the dark ages.
Some of these same islamic clerics and islamic leaders are supporting Mooky behind the scene with money and supplies.
The skies above Fallujah burned red overnight as artillery, war planes and tanks pounded the Iraqi rebel bastion and US troops poured in at the start of an operation to retake the city.
Iraq's Defence Minister Sheikh Hazem Shaalan warns that worse is to follow as the US-backed government battles to retake the city, the symbol of a potent insurgency that is bent on undermining its plans to hold elections by January.
"Tomorrow is the large-scale operation to retake the city," he said.
"We've called it Operation Dawn. God willing, it's going to be a new, happy dawn for the people of Fallujah."
Shaalan said some insurgents had already fled and vowed to catch them.
"But our intelligence services are tracking them and we are going to get them and teach them a lesson that they would never forget."
Avenge the victims of terrorists, says Allawi
Just before the official battle started - involving 12,000 US and Iraqi troops, Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi paid a surprise visit to the thousands of Iraqi troops also camped out around Fallujah, poised for action.
"Your job is to arrest the killers but if you kill them then let it be," he said.
"You need to avenge the victims of the terrorists like the 37 children who were killed in Baghdad and the 49 of your colleagues who were slaughtered," he said, referring to two of the deadliest attacks unleashed by insurgents loyal to Iraq's most wanted militant and Al-Qaeda frontman Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Iraqi and US officials believe that Zarqawi and his followers have turned Fallujah into an operating base. They gave the residents an ultimatum to surrender the militants or face assault, but city leaders insist such people are not there.
Allawi said uprooting extremists from Fallujah is the only way ``to safeguard lives, elections and democracy in Iraq''.
He has rejected UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's warning against attacking the city, according to a letter obtained today by The Associated Press.
Allawi's diplomatic rebuke was in response to Annan's letter late last week warning the leaders of the United States, Britain and Iraq that an all-out assault on Fallujah could undermine national elections set for January and further alienate Iraqis. Iraq's Defence Minister Sheikh Hazem Shaalan warns that worse is to follow as the US-backed government battles to retake the city, the symbol of a potent insurgency that is bent on undermining its plans to hold elections by January.
"Tomorrow is the large-scale operation to retake the city," he said.
"We've called it Operation Dawn. God willing, it's going to be a new, happy dawn for the people of Fallujah."
Shaalan said some insurgents had already fled and vowed to catch them.
"But our intelligence services are tracking them and we are going to get them and teach them a lesson that they would never forget."