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US Offensive in Fallujah intensifies
DW -World.DE ^ | 4-6-04

Posted on 04/06/2004 6:51:06 AM PDT by TexKat

US and Iraqi forces clash with insurgents in Fallujah

There have been heavy clashes between US troops and Iraqi insurgents on the edge of the flashpoint town of Falluja. US commanders have been vowing to pacify Fallujah after last week's killing of four US security contractors there. Meanwhile, an Italian news agency has quoted a local official in Nassiriya as saying some 15 Iraqi militiamen and civilians had been killed there in clashes with Italian soldiers. Italian officials said 12 Italian soldiers were wounded. The militiamen are said to be supporters of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, accused of leading a wave of confrontations with occupying coalition forces. 48 Iraqis and nine coalition soldiers were killed in fighting between occupying troops and Sadr's militiamen in Baghdad and Najaf on Sunday. And the US military has said attackers on Monday killed four US Marines in al-Anbar province west of Baghdad, while three U.S. soldiers were killed in separate attacks in a Shi'ite area of Baghdad on Monday and Tuesday.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alsadr; fallujah; iraq; springcleaning; usmarines; vigilantresolve; whoopass
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To: Piquaboy
We should notify the town of Fallejah that we are going to drop a 2000lb bomb in it sometime in the near future but don't tell them when or where. See if they like surprises.

Yeah! Slaughtering some innocents will show them what liberation is all about! Or somefink...

21 posted on 04/06/2004 7:21:20 AM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: adam_az
Fox News Report: Our guys were taking fire from a mosque and an open field. A C-130 was brought in to take care of that.
22 posted on 04/06/2004 7:21:46 AM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: Captain Kirk
Your right we cannot be like them, that is what separates us from the animals!
23 posted on 04/06/2004 7:21:50 AM PDT by Dadofmany
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To: TexKat; Happy2BMe
8 Three Task Force 1st Armored Division Soldiers Killed During Separate Incidents ~  CJTF-7 | 4/06/04

8 Twelve Detained in Raid ~  CJTF-7 |  4/06/04

8 Coalition soldiers train Iraqi Armed Forces to join fight ~ Army News Service | 4/05/04 | Spc. Aaron Ritter

8 Bush Vows to Arrest Iraq Cleric to Quell Violence ~ Reuters | 4/06/04 | Jeremy Pelofsky, Michael Georgy

8 A Soldier Assures Us: Our Progress Is Amazing ~ Houston Chronicle | 4/05/04 | Joe Roche

8 Private Guards Repel Attack on US Headquarters ~ Blackwater Security, we will not forget your sacrifices, either ~ Washington Post | 4/06/04 | Dana Priest

8 A Marked Difference: Most Shiite Arabs Oppose Attacks; Islamic State Is Not Preferred ~ ABCNEWS | 4/05/04 | Gary Langer

24 posted on 04/06/2004 7:22:53 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl ("Today we did what we had to do.They counted on America to be passive.They counted wrong."- R Reagan)
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To: Captain Kirk
The terrorist have no qualms about surprising Israli infants.
25 posted on 04/06/2004 7:22:59 AM PDT by Piquaboy
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To: adam_az
Remember the "quagmire" when we took Baghdad? "US forces scared to enter Baghdad!" BS! Our guys fight on their terms, not on the enemies terms.

The role once played by Lord Haw Haw, Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose in World War II has now be taken over by the American liberal news media.

26 posted on 04/06/2004 7:25:09 AM PDT by Polybius
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To: Gunslingr3
The terrorist never slaughter any innocents, do they?
27 posted on 04/06/2004 7:25:29 AM PDT by Piquaboy
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To: TexKat
Troops broke into houses in the neighborhood, carrying out searches, and entered a mosque, witnesses said.

About time.

29 posted on 04/06/2004 7:29:37 AM PDT by Aeronaut (How many liberals does it take to change a light bulb? None - they like being in the dark.)
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To: adam_az
Addendum:

While the media will report the coalition troops/Marines are *scared*, they will pound on the word *offensive* and this will be agreed w/by the Dems and the Muslims, as in the Marines are picking on the poor Muslims and so more crazies need to go to Iraq and teach the Americans a lesson. American Marines are frightened bullies......yeah, that's the ticket.
30 posted on 04/06/2004 7:32:55 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: Piquaboy
The terrorist never slaughter any innocents, do they?

This gives you license to be a terrorist and slaughter innocents too?

31 posted on 04/06/2004 7:33:14 AM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: MEG33; MamaDearest; All
Alleged al-Qaida Tape Claims Iraq Attacks

By MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press Writer

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A man claiming to be a senior al-Qaida figure that the United States believes is operating in Iraq has released a tape calling for the country's Sunni Muslims to fight Shiites and claiming responsibility for high-profile attacks there.

The 33-minute audiotape appeared Tuesday on a Web site known as a clearinghouse for militant Islamic messages. The speaker introduced himself as Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian also known as Ahmed al-Khalayleh who is thought to be a close associate of Osama bin Laden. It was the first tape of any kind attributed to him to be made public.

The tape's authenticity could not be verified immediately. Terrorism experts say that even when such statements cannot be traced to al-Qaida, they serve the group's cause by inspiring sympathizers.

Al-Zarqawi's whereabouts are unknown, but the Web site on which the tape appeared had a transcript heading that said al-Zarqawi was in Iraq.

The tape appeared hours before a Jordanian court convicted al-Zarqawi in absentia and sentenced him to death for the 2002 killing of a U.S. aid official in a terror conspiracy linked to al-Qaida. U.S. officials have offered a $10 million reward for his capture, saying he is trying to build an network of foreign militants in Iraq.

A statement circulating in Iraq and signed by anti-U.S. groups last month claimed al-Zarqawi was killed earlier by American bombs in northern Iraq. A senior U.S. official denied the report of al-Zarqawi's death.

The speaker on the tape claimed responsibility for a March 17 car bombing of a Baghdad hotel that killed seven people. The reference to the car bombing was an indication the tape was made recently.

The speaker also said that his group carried out the assassination of Ayatollah Mohammad Baqr al-Hakim, the leader of Iraq's largest Shiite party, the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. Al-Hakim was killed by a car bomb in Iraq on Aug. 29.

Al-Hakim's brother, Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, has said al-Qaida was behind that assassination to try to ignite sectarian conflict.

The speaker also threatened to kill Gen. John Abizaid, head of the Central Command; L. Paul Bremer, the top U.S. administrator in Iraq; and "their generals, soldiers and associates."

One theme of the tape echoed that of a letter U.S. authorities released earlier this year in which al-Zarqawi purportedly wrote to other al-Qaida leaders that the best way to undermine U.S. policy in Iraq was to turn the country's religious communities against each other.

Iraq's Shiite majority was suppressed under toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), who favored his own Sunni community. Saddam loyalists in heavily Sunni parts of the country and foreign fighters have been blamed for the bulk of attacks against U.S.-led forces in Iraq.

On the tape, the speaker said Shiite Iraqis were not true Muslims and were "the ears and the eyes of the Americans" in Iraq. He called upon Sunni Muslims in Iraq to "burn the earth under the occupiers' feet."

32 posted on 04/06/2004 7:34:23 AM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: Piquaboy
The terrorist never slaughter any innocents, do they?

As a matter of fact, that's what makes them terrorists.

33 posted on 04/06/2004 7:35:49 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: Truth666
Shiite militias in Nassiriah give 2 hours ultimatum to italians to leave the city

Fox News reported that the perps are using Iraqi citizens as human shields.

34 posted on 04/06/2004 7:38:06 AM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: goldstategop
Sheesh. At this rate, The Prez is going to have to go back out to an aircraft carrier, and declare that hostilities in Iraq are now ON again.

FYI, will post some graphic japanese/korean TV reporting from Iraq today, on the FR site. Those reporters have been allowed to get damned close to Sunni and Shiite rebels, filming their every move. Guess they have rapport that CNN and other round eyes do not have. (At any rate, makes for good G-2 viewing.)

35 posted on 04/06/2004 7:38:47 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Another vote here for Bush, only IF Congress ends up defeating his illegal immigration amnesty law)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
that's exactly right. the political situation here is going to be in near meltdown soon.
36 posted on 04/06/2004 7:42:54 AM PDT by oceanview
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To: Polybius; adam_az
Yes. And I hope that freepers will take the time to at least read what Wretchard has conjectured about Fallujah. I doubt any of us have enough insight to say for sure whether he is or is not right, but the scenario is very plausible, and so far seems to fit what little we have seen reported.
37 posted on 04/06/2004 7:43:11 AM PDT by Cap Huff
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To: AmericanInTokyo
The President declared the end of major combat and stated that we would still face pockets of resistance.Is it worse than anticipated,yes.Was it predicted that the closer we get to June 30th,the more hostilities would increase,yes.

He never declared hostilities at an end.Has foreign media taken over your thinking and perceptions ?
38 posted on 04/06/2004 7:45:56 AM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
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To: MEG33
In many respects--but not all, I trust the foreign media, moreso than our own liberal, controlled media in the United States, to get to the truth of a matter.
39 posted on 04/06/2004 7:48:09 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Another vote here for Bush, only IF Congress ends up defeating his illegal immigration amnesty law)
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To: Cap Huff
It was an excellent opinion article.
40 posted on 04/06/2004 7:49:54 AM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
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