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| US bombs Fallujah |
| 2004-08-24 |
| U.S. aircraft and artillery bombarded targets in the Iraqi city of Falluja early on Tuesday, lighting up the night sky with explosions that shook the southwest of the city, residents said. They said U.S. aircraft mounted several air strikes in the industrial sector of the city, and tanks were then seen going toward the scene of the attack. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #6 well they had at least one possibly two suicide bombing attempted assasinations today near or in Baghdad - so the quiet ends |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-08-24 5:08:01 PM |
| #5 on whatever's within arms-reach of Baghdad. or a few hours from the bar. |
| Posted by: B 2004-08-24 11:04:16 AM |
| #4 Probably because of the continued Marine interdiction of Fallujah. It's tight enough to keep the wild boys stuck in the city, and loose enough to not provoke countersiege outrages. Additionally, there seems to be a fairly hot war going in al Anbar. Most of the friendly casualties are coming from that province, and not anywhere in the south. We don't hear shit about al Anbar due to the media fixation on whatever's within arms-reach of Baghdad. All the English-language Iraqi bloggers are based in the urban areas, so that biases what we're seeing from them as well. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2004-08-24 11:01:21 AM |
| #3 HealingIraq today says, Something else has been bothering me for a while. How come there are NEVER any suicide bombings whenever there is trouble in the south with Sadr? And why do the Sunni areas seem so peaceful? I don't think he is totally right. In April when Sadr was causing trouble there were lots of attacks in Sunni areas. However, the last two weeks of Sadrfest have been relatively quiet weeks in the Sunni triangle. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-08-24 10:01:43 AM |
| #2 Hopefully we got rid of some more bad guys too. |
| Posted by: Douglas De Bono 2004-08-24 9:27:33 AM |
| #1 always nice to wake up to some uplifting good news |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-08-24 8:14:28 AM |