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2004-04-29 Iraq-Jordan

Scotsman: Fighting Flares in New Parts of Fallujah

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Posted by .com 2004-04-29 01:45|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 For reference, here's the Fallujah Map. Note that the city MUST have grow northward since this photo was taken as there is no intersection with the RR line. I've checked other maps and that line is the only one shown in any of them.

Posted by .com 2004-04-29 2:00:48 AM|| 2004-04-29 2:00:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 [dropped bombs on the] "train station and in neighbourhoods that had seemed to be quieting".

....or maybe the Scotsman reporter is just wrong or he's trying to make it sound like the US decided to unleash it's wrath on a quite neighborhood for no apparent reason. Who knows anymore?

Posted by B 2004-04-29 2:11:03 AM|| 2004-04-29 2:11:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned. âItâs definitely time, time now for those who prefer ~~to get oil vouchers~~ restraint and dialogue to make their voices heard.â

Posted by B 2004-04-29 2:12:29 AM|| 2004-04-29 2:12:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Annan sez it's time for dialogue . . .

Before those craters with bone fragments become tourist attractions

Posted by BigEd 2004-04-29 2:59:50 AM|| 2004-04-29 2:59:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I speculate that the bad guys got a strong case of claustrophobia after the AC-130 action the other night.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-04-29 5:25:07 AM|| 2004-04-29 5:25:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 First, the article describes fighting in the Jolan neighborhood, where it's been for the last four nights running. Second, the Jolan is in the north, so this train station is right next to the area where they have been fighting. Sounds as if the jihadis tried to sally. Possibly a breakout attempt? Nah, where would they go? Most likely it's just another move by another jihadi rapid-reaction force. Or by the same one as always. You'd think the old one would be attrited to pieces by now, given how active the Marines seem to have been in mousetrapping reaction forces.

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-04-29 7:24:37 AM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-04-29 7:24:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Think three dimensions. For at least 20 years now, the US Army has had an integrated battlefield surveillance system that puts together ground and low-medium-high-space altitude recon together to help field artillery target. Believe me, 10 years ago this system was good enough to do a target analysis of every building and stationary target in a large city and give the speed, direction and distance of every moving vehicle. And it was just for field artillery. Since then, I'm sure it has been adapted for infantry use.
The surveillance has also improved on the scale of the jump from a 286 PC to a Pentium IV.
I mention this because the Marines have probably got real time intelligence that literally shows what building every single person who has been on the street holding a gun has *come* from, and where they have *gone* to.
Last but not least, they have GPS targeting, the final element. Now ALL they have to do is figure out some way to cajole the idiots into a place with no civilians.
Fallujah is a death trap.

Posted by Anonymous 2004-04-29 8:20:28 AM|| 2004-04-29 8:20:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Itâs definitely time, time now for those who prefer restraint and dialogue to make their voices heard.

What do you call the talks in Fallujah, Kofi?

Why is it Kofi, while American troops are under and are delievring heavy fire, he wants dialog now.

Oh wait...

Kofi is a socialist. That's right. My bad. He wants to be taller than anyone else and a pile of dead, US or Iraq, it doesn't matter, is just the thing to make his day, along with calls for dialog and restraint.

At least 725 US troops have died in Iraq since the war began in March 2003. Up to 1,200 Iraqis also have been killed this month.

Doncha love it when leftist writers do statistics? Paraphrasing Chris Rock: It's like having someone on your basketball team who is physically challenged: you gotta let some things slide. I guess that's what passes for editorial overwatch of writing in newspapers these days.

Here's a tip for clear minded readers: When you read the term 'at least' or 'up to' followed by any digit from 0 to 2^64, just replace those phrases with the term 'this writer no fookin idea how many'.

Posted by badanov 2004-04-29 9:33:27 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-04-29 9:33:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 âViolent military action by an occupying power against inhabitants of an occupied country will only make matters worse,â UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned.

This silly son of a bitch has no shame. The UN oil-for-food scandal is being pried open and the outfit he heads is slowly being exposed for the inept and corrupt organization that it is, and he has the audacity to lecture the U.S. over what going on in Falluja????

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-04-29 11:26:11 AM|| 2004-04-29 11:26:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Translation of Kofi's Komments: "The jihadis are about to lose! Time for the UN to help 'em."

Posted by someone 2004-04-29 1:49:36 PM|| 2004-04-29 1:49:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 "Inhabitants"...yeah that's what they are

Posted by WhiteHouseDetox 2004-04-29 8:35:48 PM|| 2004-04-29 8:35:48 PM|| Front Page Top

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