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| US moves on Iraqi rebel stronghold of Fallujah |
| 2004-10-16 |
| US ground troops advanced on the Iraqi rebel bastion of Fallujah on Friday after a night of deadly air assaults...Before dawn, 1,000 US group troops, along with tanks and Iraqi special forces, rumbled toward Fallujah in a bid to flush out Zarqawi, said to be the top Al-Qaeda operative in Iraq, after attempts to hammer out a truce collapsed. "Units are pushing forward... Their mission is to disrupt the enemy's ability to conduct terror attacks in this area of operations, specifically in the city of Fallujah... They'll do whatever it takes to accomplish that," said marines spokesman Lyle Gilbert. The deployment was the biggest around Fallujah, the epicentre of the insurgency, since last April when marines and rebels battled to a draw in the community of 200,000 people, leaving it in the hands of radical Islamists for months. Gilbert declined to say if the troops had yet entered the rebel bastion, but a storming of the city loomed after Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Fallujah should surrender Zarqawi, a Jordanian-born fighter with a 25-million dollar price on his head, or face a military assault. Adding to the tensions, a senior religious figure from the rebel stronghold, Sheikh Mahmud Abdel Aziz, called for protests over the US operations and warned of "holy war" if the onslaught continued... AFP report, so take cum grano salis. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #7 a senior religious figure from the rebel stronghold, Sheikh Mahmud Abdel Aziz, called for protests over the US operations and warned of "holy war" if the onslaught continued... Yeah, whatever, I've got your "holy war" right here. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2004-10-17 6:57:56 PM |
| #6 Haven't they already declared holy war on us? Regardless, a Bush win translates into the Fallujah crater. |
| Posted by: Douglas De Bono 2004-10-16 7:04:10 PM |
| #5 I think feint, as do others. Fallujah will be the final holdout and suffer the worst (as it should be). Wait til after the election and level this shithole |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-10-16 6:44:19 PM |
| #4 Hmmmmmm...... feint? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-10-16 6:28:22 PM |
| #3 And keep the Joint Chiefs from dabbling in the ops.... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-10-16 2:46:44 PM |
| #2 m_m - "...and don't read the papers!" ...or take any calls from thr State Dept... |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2004-10-16 1:46:19 PM |
| #1 a senior religious figure from the rebel stronghold, Sheikh Mahmud Abdel Aziz, called for protests over the US operations and warned of "holy war" if the onslaught continued... Well, bring it on. This is what we should have done in April. If we are serious about it this time (and General McInerney sounds like he means business), we could crush this entire stronghold in a couple of weeks. Stay strong, General, and don't read the papers! |
| Posted by: molokai_man 2004-10-16 1:14:24 PM |