Article

2004-11-07 Iraq-Jordan

Coalition faces army of imported suicide bombers

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-11-07 5:51:48 PM|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Oopps, this should have been
'Page 1' news.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-11-07 5:59:31 PM|| 2004-11-07 5:59:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 ... rebel leaders said more than 100 cars laden with explosives had been distributed throughout the rebel Sunni stronghold to be detonated when US marines mount a long-awaited ground offensive.

Simple solution; Sweep all streets with tanks whose gunners are instructed to shell or strafe each and every car in sight, moving or not. Any dissatisfied residents should be told to direct their complaints at the insurgents who made this move necessary.

Until Iraqis finally realize the high cost of sequestering these terrorist thugs in their midst, measures such as this will be required.

Posted by Zenster 2004-11-07 6:22:57 PM|| 2004-11-07 6:22:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 300 suicide bombers @ 72 virgins; Does Allan have 21,600 available?

Posted by mhw 2004-11-07 6:55:04 PM|| 2004-11-07 6:55:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 think raisins

Posted by Frank G 2004-11-07 6:57:26 PM|| 2004-11-07 6:57:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Phhft. The heck with tanks - sweep the streets clean with air strikes. It's a wide-open city, and the sky has to be saturated with UAVs. Just blow up every vehicle in the city. You'll miss anything under cover, but that'll clear the boobytraps, leaving only suicide-drivers for the ground troops to deal with.

I've seen numbers that suggest that Fallujah's a ghost-town these days, with no more than one-sixth the population it had prior to the current troubles. If the remaining locals have a brain in their heads, as soon as they hear sustained explosions, they're going to be living underground.

Now that I think about it, I predict that this is going to be a mole's war - clearing the town basement by basement. Hope they're ready to look out for basement-bunkers and the old grenade-on-a-string gag.

Anybody know what the water table is like in Fallujah? Exactly how extensive could basements be in this town?

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-11-07 8:17:26 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-11-07 8:17:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 ..insurgent commanders inside the rebel stronghold warned that hundreds of suicide bombers had been primed as part of planning for a ferocious counter-attack.

This is not a problem. A safe assumption would be that during the buildup, most of the non-combatants have left, and all that remains are largely jihadis, so any individual encountered that doesn't do as they are clearly told to do by coalition forces should be dropped immediately, no ifs, ands, or buts.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-07 8:27:49 PM|| 2004-11-07 8:27:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 ...FNC has an article that says the ROE allow them to shoot at ANYBODY driving...pretty much covers it.*S

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-11-08 12:50:47 AM|| 2004-11-08 12:50:47 AM|| Front Page Top

00:50 Mike Kozlowski
00:04 Zenster
23:52 mom
23:35 Zhang Fei
23:29 Alaska Paul
23:21 BigEd
23:19 Fred
23:16 Strategic Armchair Command
23:16 BigEd
23:10 Rafael
23:08 AzCat
23:08 Rafael
23:04 Zhang Fei
22:56 Robert Crawford
22:55 Beau
22:54 Robert Crawford
22:54 Zhang Fei
22:41 Beau
22:41 Onionman
22:40 A Jackson
22:32 Barbara Skolaut
22:21 rkb
22:19 Rafael
22:17 Robert Crawford