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2005-12-01 Iraq

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Posted by Omans Grineque5588 2005-12-01 05:22|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Not just the Beeb. SeeBS also lead with this and minimized the several thousand marines and Iraqi army closing in on Ramadi. Just as advertised when Baghdad gave Ramadi 30 days to get its shit together.

Its good for us when the idjits appear and shoot up the street and leave. Just remember to wave at the eyes in the sky as they track you to your hiding place. Expect a knock on the door from Mr. Marine and Mr. Laser Guided Bomb.

Posted by ed 2005-12-01 09:15|| 2005-12-01 09:15|| Front Page Top

#2 This may be bad for the terrorists since they have, in effect, flushed themselves out.

Posted by mhw 2005-12-01 09:22|| 2005-12-01 09:22|| Front Page Top

#3 USMC spokesmen report these accounts are pure BS. Only one RPG fired at a fortified post. Seems one of those Al-Jerkoff sites started the Arab urban legend and our MSM, holed up in Baghdad hotels, reported "massive" attacks as true!

Posted by The Happy Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2005-12-01 09:53|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp] 2005-12-01 09:53|| Front Page Top

#4 "... al-Qaeda in Iraq, the group run by Abu Musab Zarqawi, was now in control of the city."

Posted by doc 2005-12-01 10:01|| 2005-12-01 10:01|| Front Page Top

#5 USMC spokesmen report these accounts are pure BS. Only one RPG fired at a fortified post. Seems one of those Al-Jerkoff sites started the Arab urban legend and our MSM, holed up in Baghdad hotels, reported "massive" attacks as true!

Does it strike anyone else that the MSM is doing this more often? I mean, running with a story without any attempt to check its accuracy?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-12-01 10:07|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-12-01 10:07|| Front Page Top

#6 The BBC make me embarressed to be British! sad bunch of lefty Saddam lovin peaceniks. Anyway these fools really beleive this was true or was it infact a complete fabrication by the BBC and other like minded 'journalist' organizations to undermine everything Bush said in yesterdays speech??? And if it were true where the hell are all the pictures and video taken by the Al-rooters 'journalists' who are always imbedded with these Jihadi fckwits???? The BBC would be wanking with deleight over some video or pics of this thuggish terrorist behaviour.

Posted by Shep UK 2005-12-01 10:22|| 2005-12-01 10:22|| Front Page Top

#7 BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents attacked several U.S. bases and government offices with mortars and rockets Thursday before dispersing in the capital of western Iraq's Anbar province, residents and police said. The attacks in Ramadi occurred as local tribal leaders and U.S. military officials were to hold their second meeting in a week at the governor's office in the city center. The insurgents apparently tried to shell the building, but reporters inside said there was no damage or injuries.

Police Lt. Mohammed Al-Obaidi said at least four mortar rounds fell near the U.S. base on the eastern edge of the city, but that there were no reports of casualties. Insurgents also launched mortar rounds at an auditorium in Ramadi where U.S. and Sunni Arab leaders met on Monday, The Washington Post reported earlier this week.

Residents said that scores of masked gunmen, believed to be members of Jordan-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al-Qaida in Iraq group, ran into the city's streets Thursday but dispersed after launching attacks with mortars and Russian-made Katyusha rockets.

Life in Ramadi quickly returned to normal after the shooting. The U.S. military said that only one rocket-propelled grenade was fired at an observation post and that there were no injuries or significant damage. The insurgents did leave behind posters and graffiti saying they were members of al-Qaida in Iraq and claiming responsibility for shooting down a U.S. drone. There were no reports of any U.S. drones being shot down, though.

Ran out, fired a few shots, slapped up some posters and ran away. Quagmire! Doom! Gloom!

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-12-01 10:22|| 2005-12-01 10:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Does it strike anyone else that the MSM is doing this more often? I mean, running with a story without any attempt to check its accuracy?

No it strikes me that people are noticing that the MSM does it as much as they ever have but that the MSM is less able to stifle the story when it gets out. Walter Duranty wannabes they are.

Posted by Fluper Ebbens7339 2005-12-01 10:22|| 2005-12-01 10:22|| Front Page Top

#9 "Offensive" and "heavily-armed" are a bit generous. I'd picture a few thousand folks armed and fully supplied with rpg's, ak's, assorted grenades (no WP please .. oh god no), sidearms, some form of indirect fire support available on call, a few atgm's and shoulder sam's, and a full assortment of light and heavy mg's. Wonder what they'd call a motorized rifle regiment with all it's support conducting multiple assaults throughout a city? WWIII?

Posted by MunkarKat 2005-12-01 10:58|| 2005-12-01 10:58|| Front Page Top

#10 For and then dispersed throughout the city read bravely ran away

Posted by Howard UK 2005-12-01 11:06|| 2005-12-01 11:06|| Front Page Top

#11 What pisses me off is that when the US military Cyops gives stories to Arab media maybe even some money the Media here cry wolf and that their should be disclosures and blah blah blah free speech violatoin blah blah I would like to know is the Media here now going to honor this standard and have a disclosure on the bottom of every report like this one that says taken from terrorist insiders. The Media sit in the green zone paying locals that can get photos and stories do they really believe common fair or even western leaning Iraqi's can do what the US cant get to the site of terrorist attacks and get inside info?? common these independent agents are either in with the terrrorist or at least taking info from them. I reall feel for the military they are fighting a up hill battle against the media who refuse to allow them to get their point out after all it destroys their own personal agenda. I am more and more coming to the conclusion the only way out is going to be Sedition Laws, it is sad that that is what we have come to but their is people who's goal is either anti-american or so determined to be proven right they are sacrifising a active war effort and doing what they can to undermind it. We must fight back and the if the military cant seed stories with their point of view into the media even foreign media the otherside is openly faught, discredited, and hell in this case even criminalized for trying the is only one rebutal Sedition Laws.

Posted by C-Low 2005-12-01 11:12|| 2005-12-01 11:12|| Front Page Top

#12 The MSM seems to be searching for the Iraqi equivalent of the Tet Offensive. Something they can so distort as to change public opinion. I just hope this time they get caught doing it.

Posted by TomAnon 2005-12-01 12:24|| 2005-12-01 12:24|| Front Page Top

#13 Tet is unislamik

Posted by Shipman 2005-12-01 13:22|| 2005-12-01 13:22|| Front Page Top

#14 flash mob with mortars.

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-12-01 13:38|| 2005-12-01 13:38|| Front Page Top

#15 Seems like the Beeb is paying someone to plant false or inflated stories to improve the image of the terrorists. Tell me, how is this different than what the US Military is being accused of. I heard this on the TV this morning and just laughed. I knew it was crock. If they were massing in any numbers, they would be killed in similar numbers. That is the pattern over there. It has not changed since we arrived.

Posted by remoteman 2005-12-01 14:11|| 2005-12-01 14:11|| Front Page Top

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