Posted on 11/13/2004 12:40:21 PM PST by AmericanMade1776
U.S. military officials said Saturday that American troops had now "occupied" the entire city of Fallujah and there were no more major concentrations of insurgents still fighting. Artillery and airstrikes also ended after nightfall.
Iraqi officials declared the operation to free Fallujah of militants was "accomplished" but acknowledged the two most wanted figures in the city — Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Sheik Abdullah al-Janabi — had escaped the fighting.
But after nearly a week of intense urban combat, U.S. officers said resistance had not been entirely subdued and that it still could take several days of fighting to clear the final pockets.
The offensive against Fallujah claimed the lives of at least 24 American troops and an estimated 1,000 insurgents, and rebel attacks elsewhere — especially in the northern city of Mosul — have forced the Americans to shift troops away from Fallujah
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That's what I've heard on Fox. I think some of the 1st group do a check and there is a group behind them that does more of a full search. I belive that's how they found some of the cilvians and hostages.
As Creighten Abrams said, "If you grab'um by the short hairs
their hearts and minds will follow.
Well, not to question those tactics, but imagine for a moment the possibility of such a conflict taking place in your hometown, here in the US. If your enemy drove into your town and dumped body parts from your friends and relatives into the town square, would it shake you into inaction or harden your resolve?
"Allawi, a Shiite Muslim, brushed aside suggestions the operation would create a backlash among the country's Sunni minority. 'There is no problem of Sunnis or Shiites," he said. "This is all Iraqis against the terrorists. We are going to keep on breaking their back everywhere in Iraq. We are not going to allow them to win.'"
Oh, you bet..I know that our actions provoked a response and renewed resolve. I knew (at age 19) that we were fighting a lost cause. 500,000 Americans in a country the size of California...many thinking that we were there to help South Vietnam win a civil war. The truth was, it was a revolutionary war. But our side fought hard though. As hard as they are fighting today in Falluja. I never saw an American not give his all.
Really?
And afer we take all those towns let's settle there, drill for oil, and have a wonderful time.
Good news bump to the top
That is MARINES and Soliders
> Not a good trade, IMO.
True.
> We have the technology. Use it.
We're way too diplomatic. And our troops die as a result.
Isn't it appropriate to refer to Marines as soldiers?
Maybe. One thousand didn't.
1,200 dead mujahideen - how sweet the sound . .
Yes I saw the same done. We put Ace of Spades on their chest. Really freaked the living out!
Good work! Sadly, it now appears that the terrorist leadership has fled to Mosul or Ramadi. Naturally, Zarqawi probably put on a Burqha to get out of town. Never let the media dictate the mood of our people (according to the AP, we're toast over there, and they are obviously wrong).
1,200 dead mujahideen - how sweet the sound . .Oh, yeah!!
NO any MARINE will take offense to you calling them A solider. We earned the right to be MARINES.
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