Posted on 11/10/2004 4:07:27 AM PST by Dog
Todays thread post all comments here...tunnels are being found in the southern part of Fallujah....per CNN's embedded reporter on the scene.
Just like the Nazis... apparently they felt compelled to keep meticulous records of their infamy.
Looks like quite an escalation. the clerics who called for this should be hung before sunset from the tallest mosque.
But with over 100,000 troops in Iraq the other Fallujah wannabes cant get some too.
I guess the Marines didn't give them time to pack. Shame.
AFP: 11/10/2004
MOSUL, Iraq, Nov 10 (AFP) - At least 22 people were killed in a wave of violence in northern Iraq Wednesday, prompting the government to slap curfews on the Sunni Muslim cities of Mosul and Baiji.
The mayhem came as US troops ploughed through the rebel hub of Fallujah, saying they will have total control of the Sunni enclave in 48 hours in a battle Prime Minister Iyad Allawi claims is key to restoring order in the country.
Undermining this goal, rebels massed in other Sunni Muslim enclaves, with dozens of armed men surging into Mosul from different directions.
Around 50 men armed with automatic weapons and rocket launchers moved into the eastern Qadissiyah neighbourhood, while similar raids occured in the east, said an AFP correspondent in the city, 370 kilometres (230 miles) north of Baghdad.
In the main street, where the police station is located, the militants set up road blocks and began searching passers-by, he added.
Clashes between police and rebels left three people dead and four wounded, said Aref Abdel Karim, who is based at the main city hospital.
An Iraqi national guard was also shot dead in the street.
Small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades rained down on a US-led military convoy just west of the Al-Wahda neighbourhood. Soldiers returned fire and there were no US casualties, the military said.
Minutes later, a second convoy came under a similar attack in the southwest of the city. A security company employee was killed, a military spokesman said, without disclosing the person`s nationality.
The surge in lawlessness prompted the Nineveh provincial government to slap an indefinite curfew on Mosul, the main city in northern Iraq, which has been a hotbed of unrest since last year`s invasion.
"A curfew starts at 4:00 pm (1300 GMT) until further notice. No one can cross bridges. Those who do will be shot and killed," said a statement broadcast on local television and radio.
The decision came after Allawi declared a state of emergency across most of Iraq, placed a blanket curfew on Fallujah and a night-time one in Baghdad.
Violence also erupted between insurgents and US and Iraqi forces in the majority Sunni town of Baiji, 200 kilometres (130 miles) north of Baghdad, leaving 10 people dead and 26 injured, and resulting in another curfew.
"There were 10 (civilians) killed, including three women, and 26 wounded, including two policemen, five children and a woman," said Dr Hussein al-Juburi at Baiji general hospital, 200 kilometres (130 miles) north of Baghdad.
Municipal council leader Hamed Hachem told AFP "a curfew has been in effect in town since midday and for an indefinite period, until order is re-established."
Roadblocks have been set up on roads into the town and troops are patrolling the streets to enforce the curfew, he said.
Rebels began skirmishes with Iraqi national guardsmen in the town centre on Tuesday afternoon, following a mortar attack on national guardsmen and US troops.
Police chief Ismail Mahmud al-Juburi said he expected the fighting to continue.
"I`m expecting more violence because of what`s happening in Fallujah," he said, referring to the massive assault on the rebel stronghold west of Baghdad begun by US and Iraqi forces on Monday.
Meanwhile, a roadside bomb ripped through a national guard patrol in Tuz, 60 kilometres (36 miles) north of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, also in northern Iraq. Four guards were killed, said the chief of the force in the area, Anwar Mohammed.
Twenty minutes later, a second bomb exploded near a patrol that had been dispatched to the scene of the first blast, killing two, Mohammed added.
In a separate attack against an armoured US convoy north of Baghdad, one US soldier was killed and another wounded.
The relentless violence, against police and other targets associated with the interim goverment, further undermined efforts by Allawi to crush pockets of insurgency ahead of January elections.
The premier himself became a focus of the lawlessness, after his cousin and at least one of his cousin`s relatives were kidnapped on Tuesday by militants who purportedly threatened to kill them within 48-hours unless the Fallujah offensive is stopped and all Iraqi prisoners freed.
Allawi needs to broadcast the slaughterhouses on Iraqi TV and radio asap.
US and Iraqi soldiers had captured 127 insurgents in a hospital in the Iraqi rebel bastion of Fallujah, which is facing a massive US military assault, Iraq's minister of provincial affairs Wael Abdel-Latif said in Turkey today.
From correspondents in Ankara
11nov04
US and Iraqi soldiers had captured 127 insurgents in a hospital in the Iraqi rebel bastion of Fallujah, which is facing a massive US military assault, Iraq's minister of provincial affairs Wael Abdel-Latif said in Turkey today.
"A total of 127 terrorists were captured in a raid on the hospital in Fallujah," Abdel-Latif told reporters in Ankara through an interpreter after talks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
"It was found that two Moroccans were among them," the minister said, adding that an investigation was continuing.
Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi announced on Monday that 38 insurgents were killed and four foreign fighters, including two Moroccans and two of unknown nationality, were captured as the US-led forces took the hospital.
Thousands of US troops, backed by Iraqi soldiers, stormed Fallujah, west of Baghdad, on Monday after weeks of heavy bombardment in a bid to break a tenacious insurgency ahead of planned elections in January.
Refugees from Fallujah reach a US Marine checkpoint at the outskirts of Fallujah, Iraq (news - web sites), Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2004. Residents reported heavy clashes and artillery shelling in the Jolan and Jumhuriya neighborhood, along the central highway. Dead bodies lay on the streets of Jumhuriya, with dogs hovering around them, witnesses said.
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/3906681/detail.html
Fallujah Insurgents On The Run
The 1st Marine Expeditionary Force's commanding general, who visited Fallujah Wednesday, said insurgents there are in disarray.
Lt. Gen. John Sattler said that U.S.-led forces are "very comfortable with where we are."
Sattler praised Iraqi security forces for being "in the thick of the fighting." He said they've been "taking the enemies on and killing the enemy."
Meanwhile, an Iraqi government spokesman said "many armed groups" in Fallujah are asking to surrender. The spokesman said Iraqi authorities will "extend amnesty to these groups" if it's confirmed they committed "no major crimes."
Wed 10 November, 2004 08:16
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Five Iraqi civilians have been killed and 20 wounded in fierce fighting that erupted between Iraqi security forces and gunmen north of Baghdad on Tuesday night, police say.
Colonel Ismael al-Jibouri said the clashes broke out in a busy shopping area in the centre of Baiji, 112 miles north of the capital.
Two trucks, three cars and one house were set ablaze. Iraqi security forces imposed a curfew on Baiji and set up checkpoints around the town centre.
It was not clear how the clashes began.
A convoy of trucks protected by U.S. forces came under attack from gunmen on a road further south, police said.
Two trucks were set ablaze in the attack, near the village of Ishaqi, and their Iraqi drivers killed.
God be with our Brave Hero's, protect them and give them a sure victory.
And may God damn Zarqari, the mujahadeen, the evil clerics and all their supporters worldwide to an inconceivably bitter and painful hell.
Commanders: Fallujah Insurgents 'Blinded'
"We are comfortable that they are not able to communicate, to work out any coordination," Lt. Gen. John Sattler told a news conference at Camp Fallujah, outside the city.
"They are now in small pockets, blind, moving about the city. We will continue to hunt them down and destroy them," he added.
"When they attempted to flee from one zone to another they were killed," Sattler said. "We feel very comfortable that none of them moved back toward the north or escaped on the flanks."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041110/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq_25
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Taken out as many innocent civilians, Iraqi police, and anyone that they can.
God be with our Brave Hero's, protect them and give them a sure victory.
Amen.And may God damn Zarqari, the mujahadeen, the evil clerics and all their supporters worldwide to an inconceivably bitter and painful hell.
It can't come soon enough.
But they have shown pretty good signs of dying.
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