Falluja under sustained US attack

[leftchick]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D793225B-1552-4BA3-A48A-5D0CC8AD30F5.htm

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US aircraft have attacked parts of the Iraqi city of Falluja, killing three people and wounding four others.


Meanwhile, 12 Iraqis were killed and 54 others wounded in Amara city in the south of Iraq. The victims were hit in clashes that erupted between al-Mahdi Army fighters and British troops, medical sources said.

Ahmad Ali, a doctor at Falluja General hospital, said early on Wednesday the toll from the attacks on Falluja could rise.

The attacks in the east of the volatile city 65km west of Baghdad sent large plumes of smoke high into the air, witnesses said.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/iraq


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In separate violence west of Baghdad, U.S. warplanes and tanks bombed the volatile city of Fallujah for more than two hours on Wednesday, killing at least four people, hospital officials and residents said.


Based in the city are Sunni insurgents the government believes are responsible for months of kidnappings, bombings and shooting attacks against coalition troops, Iraqi forces and civilians across Iraq.


A Marine spokesman, Lt. Col. Thomas V. Johnson, said Wednesday that several insurgent "firing positions ... have been struck this morning with tank-fire and yes, aircraft were also used against the targets."


Adel Khamis, a doctor at Fallujah General Hospital, said four people were killed and four were wounded in the strikes.

[acmavm]

1. Idiots. Do they think that if they keep killing people it will help the

situation? Has it helped Russia in Chechnya? (Excuse the spelling, please.) Has it ever helped anywhere?

What helped (tremendously) put an end to Viet Nam was a saturation of the pictures of the innocent dead. But I wonder if Americans have enough conscience left to let that bother them today.

[leftchick]

2. I have grave doubts about the "American conscience" anymore...

This country has fallen so far in the last 4 years it is unrecognizable to me... :cry:

[jmcgowanjm]

3. Fallujah Resistance is ready/The USCitizen won't know what's happened

until Bush makes a TV address for more troops.



TBR NEWS – August 23, 2004

The Voice of the White House


A GI gets killed here. Shot by an Arab. He lies around
until someone can pick up the body and transport it to
the centralized mortuary. Where it lies around until the corpse,
or pieces of it, are identified. Then it does not go into
a refrigerated area because there really isn’t one. The body
goes into a rubber body bag and from that, into a steel
military coffin which is neatly sealed shut. By this time,
the occupant is pretty well gone off. My colleague tells me, and
I hate to even think about it, that according to GI staff
members, very often no one really knows what corpse is in
what coffin.

No one with more than a 10 IQ believes that we have won in
Iraq. We set up a government of handpicked Quislings
(most of whom are being paid by the CIA) that are hated by
the average Iraqi and the resistance is growing more
proficient and worse every day. Senior officers are of the
opinion that we ought to get out while we still can. It’s the
general feeling that the sacred mosque under siege is going
to be blown up, either by them on purpose or us by
stupid accident. If and when that happens, holy hell will
break loose amongst the Shiites and anti-US activity will
really take off.”

http://tbrnews.org/Archives/a1060.htm

[jmcgowanjm]

4. Top Shia leader returns to Iraq BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3596760.stm

A miraculous recovery.

How convenient that Sistani left just before the Siege.

Ayatollah Sistani landed in Kuwait and then crossed into Iraq in
a convoy of vehicles after spending three weeks in
London where he had an operation to unblock a coronary
artery.

Sistani must reclaim his creds. Something Big this way
comes.

the potential to cause a general uprising and force a U.S.
retreat (to the south).   This morning, fighting rages near
the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf

http://www.urbansurvival.com/week.htm

I would remove the CVN JFK from the Gulf now.

[babylon_system]

5. Gaza City is to Tel Aviv as Fallujah is to Washington DC

Target practice for war criminals.