Families flee US bombardment of Falluja (Tues. Night)

[leftchick]

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/049F163D-9452-4B43-A692-32F5269703D9.htm

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The Iraqi city of Falluja is coming under heavy artillery fire, sending families fleeing and causing civilian casualties, hospital sources have said.

Witnesses reported an intense tank and artillery barrage in the southern Shuhada district and industrial zone. US warplanes also bombarded the eastern corridor of the city late on Tuesday evening, residents told Reuters.

Aljazeera reported that heavy smoke was seen spewing over the industrial neighbourhood in the city.

The general hospital had received an undetermined number of casualties and panic swept the city, AFP reported.

[CHIMO]

1. Marines Say Up to 100 Insurgents Killed in Falluja

Witnesses said U.S. warplanes pounded suspected guerrilla positions and explosions could be heard as flames engulfed sections of the town, a fierce center of anti-American sentiment.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6172527

[NeoConsSuck]

2. Accept our democracy..

or die. </sarcasm>

[Jacobin]

3. Are they "Greeting Us As Liberators" yet?

Dickless Cheney said they would in March of 2003.

Wouldn't it be really really really amazing if the United States had a free press? I mean, they could have a fucking field day "being the government watchdog" as they sometimes did in the days of yore.

[leftchick]

4. I think of that often....

pulitzers galore to be had if anyone left had the GUTS to report on the scandals of this cabal. :grr:

[Gin]

5. we kill children....are we any different than the Chechyn rebels?

g

[NeoConsSuck]

6. Better yet, are we any better than Saddam?

he used a heavy hand to keep the populace 'under check'. Well, WTF are we doing?