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2004-04-14 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-04-14 12:38:26 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 shooting their guns in the air

Gunfire filled the streets, along with jubilant yelling.

I wonder how many civilian casualties their gunsex is causing?

I also have to wonder if we could get them to use up their ammo by occasionally lighting some old tires on fire and spreading rumors that it's another convoy ambush.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-04-14 12:52:59 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-04-14 12:52:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 what a load of crap!

The closer we got to the city, the more mujahedeen checkpoints we passed
so there are no marines in or around the city? if the jihadis have checkpoints all over the place where do the marines come in the picture?

had three bullet holes from a mujahedeen U.S. sniper through the front windshield on the driverâs side..The previous driver was wounded when one of the sniperâs shots grazed his head. ...

please - he would be dead if it were marine snipers!

Iraqi women and children are being shot by mujahedeen American snipers

this statement alone proves what a load of crap this is!

Posted by Dan 2004-04-14 12:54:28 PM|| 2004-04-14 12:54:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I keep seeing stories of women and children with head wounds...and I wonder if the entry point has been the top of the head?

Posted by Seafarious 2004-04-14 1:00:06 PM|| 2004-04-14 1:00:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Allow me to quote a great poet, Nigel Tuffnel

The window's dirty
The mattress stinks
This ain't no place to be a man
I ain't got no future
I ain't got no past
And I don't think I ever can

The floor is filthy
The walls are thin
The wind is howling in my face
The rats are peeling
I'm losing ground
Can't seem to join the human race

Yeah

I'm living in a hell hole
Don't want to stay in this hell hole
Don't want to die in this hell hole
Girl, get me out of this hell hole

I rode a jetstream
I hit the top
I'm eating steak and lobster tails
The sauna's drafty, hoo
The pool's too hot
The kitchen stinks of boiling snails

The taxman's coming
The butler quit
This ain't no way to be a man
I'm going back
To where I started
I'm flashing back into my pan

Yeah, that's what I'm doing
And why not?

It's better in a hell hole
You know where you stand in a hell hole
Folks lend a hand in a hell hole
Girl get me back to my hell hole

Posted by Super Hose 2004-04-14 1:02:42 PM|| 2004-04-14 1:02:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Well whoever wrote this article must have stolen a Dimocrat script on how to misinform and distort. My next New Years Wish. Put out a large EMP on the Al-Jazeera transmitter and fry their circuits and then ban them from Iraq.

Posted by Bill Nelson 2004-04-14 1:06:45 PM|| 2004-04-14 1:06:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Skimming past all of the BS, I do notice that so many reports contain references to the "american Snipers" that I can only conclude they must be doing an excellent job is not only whacking bad guys, but also in creating a nasty operating environment for the bad guys command system.
Jihadis probably have to draw strawsto decide whose gonna make the Starbucks run.

Posted by Capsu78 2004-04-14 1:12:06 PM|| 2004-04-14 1:12:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Caps -- the "American snipers" he's talking about are almost certainly bullets coming back down after the mujis fire up into the air.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-04-14 1:17:35 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-04-14 1:17:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 there were only 2 small clinics treating all of Falluja. The other has been set up in a car garage.

Is that the one set up with all the car batteries for the Jihadi's to provide humanitarian assistance to their kidnap victims?

Posted by B 2004-04-14 1:34:28 PM|| 2004-04-14 1:34:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 This story is shit. Any muji checkpoint on that road would be splattered by a patrolling Apache.

Posted by Frank 2004-04-14 1:37:39 PM|| 2004-04-14 1:37:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Our snipers are really slipping - they're not bagging nearly enough baby ducks and fluffy bunnies.

(Do I really need a /sarcasm tag?)

Posted by Xbalanke 2004-04-14 1:39:44 PM|| 2004-04-14 1:39:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 My next New Years Wish. Put out a large EMP on the Al-Jazeera transmitter and fry their circuits and then ban them from Iraq.

I got a better idea. Have some operatives coke up a jihadi and tell him Al Jazeera is getting ready to knock off Islamic news in favor of Oprah.

Hand him a bomb belt and let nature take its course.

Posted by badanov 2004-04-14 1:42:16 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-04-14 1:42:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 SH, great quote from 'the tap' archive. I always liked "Tonight I'm gonna rock you tonight" & "Big Bottom".

Posted by Jarhead 2004-04-14 1:52:44 PM|| 2004-04-14 1:52:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 there were only 2 small clinics treating all of Falluja. The other has been set up in a car garage.

So when AP/CNN/BBC et al continue to quote "the Director of the Fallujah Hospital", are they forgetting to mention his $14.95 oil change special?

Posted by john 2004-04-14 2:11:37 PM|| 2004-04-14 2:11:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 The only folks in this fight with a need to kill women and children are the muj's. Every non-combatant that leaves the city is one less human shield. Note that the "magic bus" had no problem at all getting into the city. It was only when they tried to leave the city that they ran into opposition from the jihadis. I'd bet you a case that if the Al Jizz reporters hadn't been on board, trying to get their story to the world, the muj's would have turned the bus back or started shooting "traitors."

Posted by 11A5S 2004-04-14 2:13:47 PM|| 2004-04-14 2:13:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 ...men with kefir around their faces holding Kalashnikovs began shooting their guns in the air, showing their eagerness to fight.

Once the ammo's gone, this will be like shooting fish in a barrel.

Posted by BH 2004-04-14 2:56:11 PM|| 2004-04-14 2:56:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Expect this bastard's fantasy to make the rounds of college papers, "alternate" (dope culture) gimme pubs, and various activist organizations.

As far as I am concerned, pigs like Jamail are inciting not only the killing of Americans but the killing and wilfull endangerment of civilians by the jihadis themselves.
Thanks to credulous reporting by collaborationist murder-tools in the media and NGOs, the jihadis have every incentive in the world to use human shields, to force civilians into dangerous circumstances, and to kill civilians themselves. How is that the snipers are only shooting innocents when these have the incentive to hide, while the jihadis openly expose themselves at checkpoints and the like?
This is an old, old theme for the murder-apologist left. It was used in an Oscar winning communist propaganda film about El Salvador back in the 80s, for example. This actually stated that children were the only casualties of aerial bombing, presuming not only that they were targeted on purpose, but that there were some magical means of doing so.

Of course, nobody is stupid enough to actually believe this kind of tripe, including doper leftists themselves.
It is simply a device they can use to disrupt rational discussion and rationalize their support for terrorists.
Rank and file peaceniks are not dupes, they are fully complicit perpetrators of terrorism and oppression and they should be treated accordingly.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-04-14 3:02:20 PM|| 2004-04-14 3:02:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 This was posted on Indymedia. In their compendium of reports were photos, including one of a missle that had injured civilians. Unfortunately, I had to point out to them that the missle was a 1980's era French missle not used by the United States but exported to a variety of countries such as Iraq.

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-04-14 3:11:31 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-04-14 3:11:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 At this point, I don't give a damn any more about the "civilians" in Fallujah. Anyone fighting against the US Marines around Fallujah, and anyone aiding and abetting them, are all lumped together as "enemy combattants and their support elements", and all deserve the same fate - total destruction. I think the sooner we do it, and the greater the firepower we use to do it with, the less trouble we'll have in the rest of the nation. If nothing else, we'll have no more trouble from Fallujah.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-04-14 3:18:37 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-04-14 3:18:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 BH #15 - might take a while for them to run out of ammo ... probably there are huge caches there, as elsewhere in the Sunni Triangle.

I'd rather they ran out of shooters even quicker.

Posted by rkb 2004-04-14 3:39:03 PM|| 2004-04-14 3:39:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 The city itself was virtually empty, aside from groups of mujahedeen standing on every other street corner. If this is true, how can so many women and children getting hurt? And why wouldn't we just level the place? Pure BS.

Posted by Tom 2004-04-14 3:51:26 PM|| 2004-04-14 3:51:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 I do fear that there is a squad of goons manufacturing "sniper victims" on some back street. Wonder how many powder burns or ligature marks are on these "sniper victims".

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-04-14 4:14:21 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-04-14 4:14:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Remember the images of Baghdad Bob on the split screen with the Americans coming into the city?

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