US air strike targets Falluja (yet another)

[Aidoneus]

US air strike targets Falluja
Sunday 19 September 2004

Local hospital sources said a US air strike killed four people and left five wounded in Falluja late on Saturday, as a US newspaper said a large offensive against the city was in the works.

The US military said a strike was carried out at 1030 (1830 GMT) on a checkpoint in northern Falluja.

"Four people were killed and five wounded," said Dr. Ali Hiad Mashadani at Falluja General hospital.

The military claimed it had targeted armed men it believed responsible for abducting and murdering people at the checkpoint.

"Informants linked the checkpoint to kidnappings and executions in the Falluja area," the military said in a statement.

However, Aljazeera learned late on Saturday that the checkpoint targeted by the US air force belonged to the Mujahidin Advisory Council who are in negotiations with US commanders and Iraqi officials to end US aerial assaults on the city and cede control to the Iraqi interim government.

Deadly air strikes

The strike on Saturday followed an air raid on Friday that killed three people - among them an elderly couple - and several bombardments the previous night that left 44 people dead around Falluja, some 50kms west of Baghdad.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DB6E9971-7CE9-48BA-85E3-47DD76C64101.htm

[Mr_Spock]

1. "My name is George W. Bush, and I like to kill"

"Please help me with my addiction"

[Tracer]

2. Has it gone down the memory hole?

All this tragedy in Falloujah started well over a year ago when the U.S. decided to billet troops in a local school.

The residents objected (and who wouldn't?) and staged a demonstration outside the school.

The nervous U.S. troops opened fire on the demonstrators and 10 or 12 people were killed.

None of this had to happen. NONE OF IT.

[saigon68]

4. don't forget the barbecued mercenaries

who were strung up--- remember Bremer's out rage.

[bluedeminredstate]

3. Hearts and minds...

Think of this as Bush does as explosive opportunities to bring freedom and safety to this part of the world.
Fuckwit.

[bobthedrummer]

5. Ah yes, Fallujah where mercenaries in the employ of the Rumsfeld/Myers DoD

shot women and kids in the face at a demonstration opposing the shutdown of a local newspaper that was reporting on Abu Ghraib and other horrors.

Fallujah, where Blawk Water Security mercenaries were killed and mutilated setting off this ongoing Fallujah operation-it began in earnest when U.S. Marines took reprisals for the deaths of fucking mecenaries that are employed by war profiteering SCUM.

THE FALLUJAH FUBAR CONTINUES IN INDEPENDENT IRAQ.

[leftchick]

6. kinda hard to tell if the are "terrists"....

once you bomb the shit out of them. Perhaps that is the point.