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Iraq-Jordan
"Marines are awake 24 hours. Stop hiding behind your women’s skirts and fight"
2004-04-15
Sporadic gunfire between US forces and Iraqi insurgents interrupted a tenuous ceasefire around the besieged Sunni Muslim city of Fallujah, an AFP correspondent said. Iraqi rebels hit earlier Thursday the Jordanian hospital grounds outside eastern Fallujah with two mortar rounds, US Lieutenant Colonel Brennan Byrne told AFP without giving further details of the attack. Byrne said his men were "definitely in the killing business now".

As dusk fell US forces exchanged machine gun fire and bombarded parts of the city, west of Baghdad, with grenade launchers. In a weapons cache first discovered Wednesday forces unearthed 200 rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), a US-made (TOW) missile, and improvised explosive devices -- including Pepsi cans rigged with explosives -- Byrne said. On Wednesday night, gunships had fired on rebel positions in Fallujah and more strikes were expected through the night Thursday. "I intend to use AC 130 gunships every night," Byrne said.

A shaky five-day-old truce in Fallujah was extended for 48 hours on Wednesday to allow for two hospitals to open. But despite the deal clashes continued on Wednesday and Thursday between US forces and Iraqi guerrillas there, and Byrne said US fighters were trying to draw insurgents out into battle. US military trucks had begun blaring taunting messages and heavy metal music at suspected rebel sites in the hopes of luring out guerrillas to kill them. "Marines are awake 24 hours. Stop hiding behind your women’s skirts and fight," loudspeakers stacked on trucks blared out. At least two rebels with RPGs came charging out to fight Wednesday night and were killed after being taunted by the announcement and music, Byrne said.
Suckers. How's it feel to be dead?
"We’re not going to defile a mosque but we’re definitely in the killing business now," he said. Fallujah’s second-largest mosque, Hadret Mohammediya, was shelled earlier on Thursday by US forces. The strike at about 6:30 pm (1430 GMT) destroyed the top of its minaret and religious school, while parts of its outer wall were also hit and most of the windows shattered. US military commanders have said they will not shy from firing at mosques in the city if they are being used by insurgents to attack troops. Byrne also said that at one site marines had found drug paraphernalia scattered around, fueling suspicions that some insurgents might be sedating themselves before heading into battle. "They may have sedated themselves on morphine or other stuff," Byrne said.
That should make them alert and ferocious...
There were no indications when the ceasefire in Fallujah would end although officially the truce was expected to end Friday. US marine officers said on condition of anonymity it could be "a number of days" before the situation changes. Hospital sources said earlier on Thursday that five Iraqis had been killed and three others wounded in clashes between US troops and insurgents in Fallujah despite the truce after days of clashes which have claimed hundreds of lives. In Washington on Thursday, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld described the situation in Fallujah as "largely stabilized".
Posted by:TS

#22  As for the music, 6 words: Wesly Willis: "Rock saddam husseins ass", as for the stoned jihadis running out to the marines with RPG's: "Come on Mahmoud, I got the munchies lets run to the store and get some Dorito's pronto"
Posted by: Evert Visser in NL   2004-04-16 12:23:13 AM  

#21  Little Sheet Heads on Dope!! Cool, some of the ganster rap makes me crazy. I wonder if we can get the "Hero's of the Hood", to create some wonderful Hip Hop tunes about Allah!!
Posted by: Long Hair Republican   2004-04-15 11:24:07 PM  

#20  Editors, some bozo is commenting on a post that is three days old - and its not NMM.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-04-15 11:09:50 PM  

#19  Maybe we can bring some Orange bands in from Northern Ireland. It would keep the peace in the north as they would not be marching through Catholic neighborhoods, and the booming bass drum would give the jihadis a thrill. Do it on the 12th of July and you have a happening, with the marchers shouting "No Surrender!" Just a thought...
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-04-15 10:56:45 PM  

#18  I recommend bagpipes and bass drums, giant ones you can hear 10 miles away.

Islamo-fascists are genetically predisposed to shit themselves at the sound of these instruments. It is a matter of practical evolution. In former times, those jihadis who failed to flee at the first notes often found themselves on the sharp end of British steel before they had a chance to breed.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2004-04-15 10:43:59 PM  

#17  GW I: we played Appetite for Destruction Guns-n-Roses -Welcome To The Jungle blasting out. That and Van Halen, etc. Armored Cav and Tankers, what did ya expect?

You remember what the first song on AFN Saudi was?

Rock the Casbah by the Clash.

Laughed our asses off on that one.
Posted by: OldSpook   2004-04-15 10:43:52 PM  

#16  I like the way Lieutenant Colonel Byrne talks.
Posted by: Mike Sylwester   2004-04-15 10:39:27 PM  

#15  One more, Jarhead - Sabbath's 'Electric Funeral'. I was cleaning my bike chain with gas one time and decided to light the remnant gas on fire with that blasting in the background. I think the neighbors 1) thought I was fucked (no argument here) and / or 2) thought I was doing a satanic ritual.

To paraphrase John McClane, "The only thing better than being a psycho is making everybody think you are!"
Posted by: Raj   2004-04-15 10:26:53 PM  

#14  That's on a religious take, right? (Since Bush nearly called your assumption racist ...)

Not to mention there're plenty of pro-American, fully Western bloggers ...
Posted by: Edward Yee   2004-04-15 10:17:25 PM  

#13  How about Outkast's "Bombs Over Baghdad?" Jennifer Capriati used this as her warmup music at a tournament around the time the war started. I never liked her before that, but I do now.
Posted by: Tibor   2004-04-15 10:11:37 PM  

#12  Fred, Jarhead,
Well this makes sense...I suppose thats what they do when they suicide bomb. Alot of the jihadis do have strange glazed looking eyes.
I thought it was just the brainwashing and/or evil.
So Bin Laden aint nothing but a damn pimp then.
Arafat too..he's like the OG of jihad pimps.
Cept they deal in death.
Crazy.
Posted by: TS   2004-04-15 10:08:49 PM  

#11  RC> you might be right. I'd have to google it but I think the assassins put up a few good fights as a quasi-militia or army group.
Posted by: Jarhead   2004-04-15 10:03:48 PM  

#10  The only time those raghead pussies come out from behind their women is to throw acid in their face.
Posted by: anymouse   2004-04-15 10:01:07 PM  

#9  Didn't the head of the assassins consider himself to be the Mahdi?
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2004-04-15 9:57:21 PM  

#8  I've been reading a great deal about Muslim culture since 9/11. I've come to the conclusion they're genetically predisposed to duplicity, stupidity, and most of all cowardice. Regret to advise I'm drawing closer to George Will's admonition the Muslim's cannot democratize due to their cultural inferiority (which, for any libs out there reading this, is not an opinion but rather an objective and demonstable fact).
Posted by: Mark   2004-04-15 9:45:17 PM  

#7  Raj, there are so many good ones:

>AC/DC "Hells Bells"
>Black Sabbath "War Pigs"
>Nugent "Stranglehold"


For the Muzzy's > the Ramones "I wanna be sedated" would prolly be appro.
Posted by: Jarhead   2004-04-15 9:42:18 PM  

#6  Jarhead - how about Alice in Chains' "Man In The Pine Box"?
Posted by: Raj   2004-04-15 9:39:23 PM  

#5  TS> depends on the drug. Marijuana is a mellow stimulant whereas morphine may numb the senses w/out the mellowing side affect. Morphine + Alcohol may be interesting but since the muzzy's are too stupid to drink guess we'll never know.
Posted by: Jarhead   2004-04-15 9:38:55 PM  

#4  I think the idea's that you get a leg up on any impending pain. If you can stay awake, of course.
Posted by: Fred   2004-04-15 9:37:18 PM  

#3  "Marines are awake 24 hours. Stop hiding behind your women’s skirts and fight," loudspeakers stacked on trucks blared out.

>F*'n beautiful.

>I made the heavy metal prediction about three days ago. During Gulf I our armor and vehicles rolled in w/Metallica blaring from procured loudspeakers. "Seek & Destroy" was the song of choice at the time.
Posted by: Jarhead   2004-04-15 9:36:20 PM  

#2  Why would they sedate themselves before battle?
Wouldn't that make you not want to fight?
Posted by: TS   2004-04-15 9:33:13 PM  

#1  The word "assasin" comes from the word "hashishin". In early Arab times certain fighters would get hopped up on hashish and fought very hard. It's not really strange that they would revive the practice using more modern drugs.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2004-04-15 8:59:57 PM  

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