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2004-11-08 Iraq-Jordan

Major operation to retake Fallujah to begin Tuesday: minister

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Posted by Steve 2004-11-08 3:01:29 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Monday must have been a small scale operation, then?

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-08 3:24:22 PM|| 2004-11-08 3:24:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Prep work, took the bridges and hospital, softened up the battlefield.

Posted by Steve 2004-11-08 3:30:33 PM|| 2004-11-08 3:30:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 UPDATE: FALLUJAH (AFP) Nov 08, 2004
US marines stormed an area considered the rebel heartland of Fallujah late Monday and seized control of the Iraqi city's train station, a marine officer told AFP.A marine unit entered the Jolan district in the northwest of Fallujah, said Major Todd Desgrosseilliers, an executive officer with the marines, adding that a separate unit seized the nearby railway station.
The push forwards followed about an hour of blistering gunfire, said an AFP reporter embedded with the marines. Flashes of artillery shells lit up the night sky as the marines penetrated the hostile terrain, he said.

Posted by Steve 2004-11-08 3:39:21 PM|| 2004-11-08 3:39:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Doesn't the map show the train station on the Northern end of town?

Posted by Anon4021 2004-11-08 3:53:57 PM|| 2004-11-08 3:53:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Aparrently there's quite a lot of action in Baghdad at the moment

Jihadis trying to divert attention from Fallujah no doubt...

Posted by Lux 2004-11-08 3:55:02 PM|| 2004-11-08 3:55:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 It's already tuesday there. Now the Operation is called "The Dawn."

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-11-08 4:05:09 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-11-08 4:05:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Negotiations in 48 hours. Plese let me be wrong.

Posted by Shipman 2004-11-08 6:12:17 PM|| 2004-11-08 6:12:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 "Head shots! It's the only thing that works!"

Posted by mojo 2004-11-08 6:13:25 PM|| 2004-11-08 6:13:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 God bless our guys. Fallujah has been a problem ever since the Blackwater guys were captured, burned, and hung up. It is about time the assholes got payback for what they did.

Posted by John Q. Citizen 2004-11-08 6:37:21 PM|| 2004-11-08 6:37:21 PM|| Front Page Top

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