Explosions Rock Fallujah After New Bombing (Saturday)

[UpInArms]

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-13176339,00.html

Powerful explosions have rocked Fallujah in what appeared to be a fresh US bombardment of the flashpoint city, after clashes earlier left at least eight Iraqis dead and many injured.

The explosions centered around the north eastern part of the city in an area known as Al-Askari.

The US military had no immediate comment but confirmed earlier clashes with insurgents on Saturday.

Fighters in civilian clothing attacked a marines position near Fallujah with mortars, rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire prompting US troops to return fire with tanks, said a US military statement.

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[daleo]

1. I think there may be more to come from this story

This kind of response usually indicates some dead marines as well.

[pfitz59]

2. Hit and run......

Guerilla tactics. Confounded the Brits from 1776-1783 or so. How long will our troops be sitting ducks?

[Art_from_Ark]

4. Actually, it confounded them longer than that

They still hadn't gotten it when they walked, red coats a^blazin', into an ambush at the so-called Battle of New Orleans in 1815.

[jmcgowanjm]

3. View from Mafkarat al Islam

Saturday, 31 July 2004
Resistance fighters were at that moment battling a US
military column on the highway, and, the correspondent wrote,
it is evident that the Resistance had scored major successes
in its battle, having succeeded in cutting off and partly
encircling the American forces from three directions – the
east, west, and south.

The latest round of fighting erupted at about 10:20pm
Saturday night, when Resistance forces fired a rocket at a
US command post east of al-Fallujah and scored a direct
and very destructive hit on that
target.

http://www.freearabvoice.org/Iraq/Report/report107.htm

BTW-MAI says that the 2 aircraft shot down in Ar Ramadi earlier
this week were a Chinook and an Apache.

[bemildred]

5. Well, it's been a month now.

Despite all the bullshit, is anything different on the
ground since the "Handover of Sovereignty(tm)?" Nope,
exactly zippo. The only difference I can see is the talking
heads don't want to talk about the casualties anymore.

[jmcgowanjm]

6. IMHO bemildred, here's the difference

The Resistance is becoming bolder and better
organized.
The cities of
Ramadi Fallujah and Samarra are controlled by
Resistance.

Rebels' writ runs large across the troublesome Sunni triangle
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/%0AFullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1087374087135&p=1012571727172

I think that DC is desperately trying to hold this
fraying situation together, including the price of gas,
the Stock Market, as well as Iraq, until after
the Elections.

After that, the gloves come off.

[tlcandie]

7. When is it that Fallujah will be a ghost town because everyone

there will have been killed by the US? How much longer can they bomb citizens there?

WHY are we even bombing them when the Iraqis should be taking care of their own stuff now?

[lottie244]

8. So we get to kill anyone the insurgents haven't killed.

Great!!!