Iraq Insurgents Hit Marines in Fallujah

Associated Press ^ | 4/21/04

[saquin]

FALLUJAH, Iraq - About 35 Iraqi insurgents attacked U.S. Marines in northern Fallujah just after daybreak Wednesday, setting off a heavy gunbattle, the military said. There was no immediate word on casualties.

The attack began with a massive barrage of rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire. Explosions were heard throughout the city. Marine forces here were put on high alert.

The attack comes following Monday's announcement of an agreement aimed at ending hostilities in the embattled city. U.S. officials have warned that if guerrillas don't comply with a call by city leaders to disarm, Marines may launch an all-out assault to take the city.

[saquin]

Call this phony "cease-fire" off now! When are we gonna learn! Time to stop letting the families back in. Time to take Fallujah by force.

[MJY1288]

Turn the Marines loose, It's Hammer Time!

[Anti-Bubba182]

Amen!

[Jeff Head]

The solution to the type of atrocity and resistance that continues in Fallujah and other places in Iraq-as small a minority as they are of the whole of Iraqis-is direct and brutal for the combatants and those providing them sanctuary and support.

To whit:

1. Pull our troops back to the perimeter around Fallujah.
2. Inform the inhabitants and fighters that negotiations are over and that they have 24 hours to evacuate any male under the age of 13 and over the age of 65 along with woman and children.
3. Inform them that the death or injury of any who are held against their will or who elect to remain will be on the heads of the militants and tell them this up front...no bones about it, no further negotiations.
4. Process those electing to leave the city through checkpoints looking for any known resistors. Hold any of those who are identified and detained for indefinite internment and intense interrogation.
5. Offer the same 24 hour period to any male between 13 and 64 who wants to surrender unconditionally and direct them to different locations. Those showing up there without weapons are subject to indefinite internment and intense interrogation.
6. Armed resistors are killed on site.
7. After 24 hours, use MOAB and ARCLITE bombing to level the entire city.
8. Then send in one hundred D-9 Caterpillar bulldozers to level out the rubble, using enough enough dirt and top soil to effectively bury the dead.
9. Salt the ground and soak it with swine fat and place a sign there in the middle of what is left that reads.

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"Here stood Fallujah and the barbarians who once took refuge within. May the ghostly presence of those who committed atrocities against the United States of America and the Coalition Authority serve as a warning to others who may consider doing the same.

Now there remains nothing here but pig fat and salt.

To all the innocent whom were allowed to escape we say...De Oppresso Liber. To all those barbarians who chose to fight we say...Sic Simper Tyranus".

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IMHO, at this juncture, this is all the miltant Islamics will understand...anything short of this will be viewed as weakness and subject us to continued and increased attacks.

Jeff
Author of, The Dragon's Fury Novel Series.
A techno-thriuller series about America and the next World War

[Chad Fairbanks]

I'm kinda likin' how your mind works... have you ever thought about writing books? ;0)

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Crush them!

[JLS]

That is one solution how about this one:

1. Declare a "cease-fire" to keep down Iraqi and International criticism.

2. Shoot anyone who makes a threatening move at the US during this "cease-fire."

3. Thus day by day an unknown number of bad guys die during this cease fire.

Might be a good strategy?

[Jeff Head]

Hehehehe...talk about a loaded question providing a great lead-in. LOL!

[ALASKA]

I agree, it's time to FLATTEN FALLUJAH !!!!

[Jeff Head]

The critisism is going to come from those same quarters in Iraq (Former Ba'athist loyalists, the Islamic extremeists, etc.) and from international circles (France, the UN, etc.) anyway.

Might as well give them plenty to complain about while getting the job done right against those who are killing Americans and sending the appropriate message to those who want to continue to do so and to those who support them.

IMHO, the plan you propose (which happens to be the one that we are following) is much more apt to get more and more Marines and other servicement killed while the plan is being carried out, and will be looked upon much more likely by these animals as us blinking. The former plan will not.

Just my opinion.

[JLS]

I did not say that it would eliminate international or Iraqi criticism but rather keep it down. I was only rhetorically proposing that strategy. I merely suggesting how that strategy might seem to the guys implementing it.

BTW, I have not heard of any large number of US KIA in the area of the cease fire, so possibly it is working as the US hopes. We will have to see over time.

[saquin]

I'd just like to say that I REALLY hate when this kind of breaking news happens after 11pm EDT. It's impossible to get updated info. All the "24-hour" (isn't that a misomer?) news channels are just running repeats, news websites aren't updated, etc.

Bah!

[Chad Fairbanks]

Heh heh heh

[dts32041]

bfl

[saquin]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4887564

"FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces and Iraqi insurgents traded machinegun fire, mortars and grenades in the restive town of Falluja on Wednesday despite a tentative cease-fire, witnesses said.

They said the clashes erupted in the town's Golan district at around 6 a.m. (10 p.m. EDT Tuesday) and were continuing three hours later. U.S. military aircraft were flying over the area, the witnesses said."

[Ben Chad]

Unleash the dogs.

[saquin]

"Smithers, release the hounds!"

[Ben Chad]

Forty killed in Basra car bomb. Another coordinated offensive?

[Jeff Head]

Spectre is the name...