FALLUJAH SHAKEN BY INTENSE BLASTS, GUNFIRE AS U.S. AIRCRAFT, CANNONS BLAST PARTS OF IRAQI CITY

Fox News ^ | 27 April 2004 | Fox News

[mrustow]

Excerpt to come.

[TXBSAFH]

MOAB!!!!

[dfwgator]

Halle-Fallujah!!

[Jewels1091]

Looks like alot of cook off....ammo dump! Just said tanks are blasting as well!! Mini battle going on! That'll teach 'em!

[SierraWasp]

GOOD!!! Either blow them Bastrids up, or bring our soldiers and civilians home... RIGHT NOW!!!

It's way past time to be pussy-footing around with these murderous malevolents!!!

[LasVegasMac]

AC-130 gunship, actually. Reporters can hear it. Doing a nice job!

LVM

[Thud]

Check out these columns by Ralph Peters and Jed Babbin:

http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/23293.htm

http://www.nationalreview.com/babbin/babbin200404270840.asp

[mrustow]

Excerpt follows from:

Fallujah Shaken by Intense Blasts, Gunfire

BAGHDAD, Iraq  — A series of explosions lit up the night sky in Fallujah on Tuesday as black smoke rose above the city that has become a central location for anti-American activity in Iraq.

Between 15 and 20 explosions were heard but U.S. officials are not clear what the target is or if there were casualties.

Earlier in Fallujah (search), joint patrols of U.S. Marines and Iraqi police that were scheduled to begin Tuesday have been put on hold until Thursday because of violence. Fighting on Monday that was captured by television news crews showed Marines fighting from inside apartment blocks, firing from window to window, stacking up sandbags and eventually calling in airpower for assistance.

Elsewhere, troops killed 64 insurgent gunmen and destroyed an anti-aircraft system in the holy Shiite city of Najaf (search), U.S. military officials said Tuesday. The violence began after a U.S. military patrol came under attack and an M1 tank was hit by rocket-propelled grenades in separate incidents, officials said....

[cripplecreek]

When only the freshest Iraqi hamburger will do.

[TXBSAFH]

The four engineed wide bodied heavy lift sniper.

[Mo1]

Lots of flashing lights in the video FNC has

[mrustow]

Hit the link at #8.

[princess leah]

SHOCK and AWE II: RETURN TO FALLUJAH!

[kesg]

AC-130 gunship, actually. Reporters can hear it. Doing a nice job!

I'm getting a warm and fuzzy feeling...

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

call me crazy, but did we just PLAY DUMB & WEAK for the past few weeks?

By telling them that we wouldnt attack mosques, they might have all gathered in them and then we took out a few mosques?

If so, that was a brilliant plan.

[mrustow]

Hit the link at #8.

[yankeedame]

"Justice may move with feet of lead, but when it strikes it is with a fist of iron."

[RGSpincich]

So much for the premature doomsdayers who misinterpreted Bush's intentions when it was reported we were not going to go on an all out attack.

[Mo1]

call me crazy, but did we just PLAY DUMB & WEAK for the past few weeks?

Why yes we did

[skeeter]

Bake sale at the mosque TONIGHT.

[skeeter]

C'mon down!

[Mo1]

FNC is reporting there prayer songs coming from Fallujah

[cripplecreek]

I'll bet.

[ExGeeEye]

Fallujah...
Fallujah...
Fallujah's on Fire...
We don't need no water, let the Emm Effer burn!
Burn, Emm Effer, Burn!

[thoughtomator]

Prayer won't save them now. It might have helped before they decided to pursue the path of evil, but not now.

[Mo1]

[don'tbedenied]

I love the smell of napalm in the morning It smells like victory!

[mrustow]

I just read Peters; thanks so much for the link. I would not change a single word, period, or comma of his column.

[DJtex]

If we kill 64 insurgents in one day in Najaf, we're doing serious damage to their force structure, if you can call it that. Their are only about 1,200 true militia in Najaf, perhaps 1,600 in Fallujah. We don't want to foment a general uprising in a city of 300,000 but Fallujah is not a holy shrine like Najaf, and we will be patrolling it by week's end--with Iraqi police forces. And we will knock the stuffing out of any areas of resistance.

This is a small replay of Baghdad. We don't want street fighting with numerous civialians being hurt, but the enemy is both cowardly, and often quite amateur in their tactics.

Like everyone else here, I don't want to lose a single Marine's life over this, but putting them in harms way is the only method of separating the sheep from the goats, so to speak. I'm told that our forces will be more than sufficient to handle the situation and it sounds like they are getting plenty of close air support. One military analyst said that we had to take Fallujah down hard as a lesson to the insurgents. I think that's what we're going to do, regardless of our "pledge" not to carry out a general invasion of the city.

[swilhelm73]

Well, I'm guessing this time the fists of justice were made out of lead too - unless they were made out of DU.

[Josh in PA]

It's a brilliant day in America for democracy and freedom when DU is in tears.

I love it :).

Terrorists scumbags being destroyed, one after another after another. Today is a good day for humanity

[Doogle]

"I want you to meet my little friend"

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/ac-130.htm

[tessalu]

I think that the USA has been playing dumb, weak, gullible, and silly, and risking UDSA soldiers lives while doing so.
I am sick of it. USA thinks that they can deal with the devil and win, and it just is not true. We can never expect the devil to keep his word about anything.

It is really not much wonder that the terrorist do not believe us.

[katz]

CNN is now broadcasting that a surface-to-air missile could bring down a gunship "if they have one". CNN is the network of choice for the "insurgents"!

[mrustow]

We don't want to foment a general uprising in a city of 300,000 but Fallujah is not a holy shrine like Najaf, and we will be patrolling it by week's end--with Iraqi police forces.

Your tactics are the problem, not the solution. We shouldn't be patrolling it by week's end, and certainly not with Iraqi "police forces." If we're smart, by the end of the week, there will be no Falluja to patrol.

Falluja is not a miniature version of Baghdad.

[Sacajaweau]

A SAM "If they have one" should read "if they HAD one".

SURPRISE!!!! We beat ya to it!!

[TexasRepublic]

I wonder how the savages in Fallujah feel about charred corpses now?

[q_an_a]

my wife made a good point; "Everyone thought we would have urban warfare one year ago. They ran before, now they are fighting. this is the urban war we expected, only later."

5,000 marines will make 50,000 arabs very unhappy tomorrow.

Here is what one air drop warned. "Surrender, you are surrounded," the leaflets said. "If you are a terrorist, beware, because your last day was yesterday. In order to spare your life end your actions and surrender to coalition forces now. We are coming to arrest you."

[smiley]

So PROUD of our soldiers....the smartest and the best!!

[InvisibleChurch]

a little disinformation can go a long way, which is fine with me.. the enemy needs to be defeated... even if we look stupid trying to 'negotiate' with alsadr, maybe we're spending that time figuring out where the leadership is, something that might be difficult to do if they are in hiding during battle... i remember when rumsfeld was criticized for allowing the terrorists in afghanistan to come together as a large group, but the army was able to defeat them en masse rather than killing them one by one

[Rummyfan]

Bump for reference.

[TomGuy]

Major Bob on FoxNews. He says we are losing the PR war by dragging out the standoff in Fallujah.

[rightwingcrazy]

If this is a cease-fire, I shudder to imagine what real fighting would be like.

[Robe]

Operation Flypaper !!!!!

[Stonewall Jackson]

If I saw that thing open up, I'd surrender in a heartbeat - even if I was on its side!

[4everontheRight]

He is also talking about the Arab networks and how we should have had our own reporters in there reporting what we were doing there. Arab TV is showing our guys knocking down doors and bodies laying in the street and these people think we are killing innocents!

[TMSuchman]

I guess that the President has "let slip the DOGS OF WAR"! He had a belly full of broken promises of the rag heads, so he cried havoc!

[dalebert]

I think our guys know their stuff. I also don't think much of the so called PR campaign. If anyone wants to help the pr campaign take out Al Jazeera. I don't think the Kurds or the Shiites care what happens in Fallujah.

[RightWhale]

It is really not much wonder that the terrorist do not believe us.

American soldiers are ruthless in battle. Believe it.