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Posted on 11/14/2004 6:44:11 AM PST by bobsunshine
ALLUJA, Iraq, Nov. 13 - Army tanks and fighting vehicles blasted their way into the last main rebel stronghold in Falluja at sundown on Saturday after American warplanes and artillery prepared the way with a savage barrage on the district.
Earlier in the afternoon, 10 separate plumes of smoke rose from southern Falluja, as if etched against the desert sky, and probably exclaiming catastrophe for the insurgents.
"It's a broad attack against the entire southern front," said Col. Michael D. Formica, the Army commander in charge of the cordon effort around the city. "We're just pushing them against an anvil."
The assault progressed enough for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to conclude that "coalition and Iraqi forces have completed the move, for all practical purposes, from the north of town to the south" of Falluja.
"Needless to say, there still will be pockets of resistance and areas that will be difficult, so I don't mean to suggest that it's complete ," he said during a visit to Panama. "Clearly there's a large number of terrorists that have been killed or captured, and that is a good thing for the people of Iraq."
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Booyah!
Fire at will and fire for effect!
God Bless our Troops - They are Great !
Al Queda need not worry. Our "friend" Egypt just released 700 IslamoFascist prisoners today. In no time flat, they will cross into Iraq from Syria or Iran to replace the newly dead Falluja al Queda assassins.
ON TO RAMADI!!!!!
"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory."
~ Douglas MacArthur
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Sounds like they arn't taking any Shiite.
It is written, "never use a cannon to kill a sparrow, unless the sparrow is a Muslim terrorist, in which case, blow the hell out of him."
Just once, I want to see somebody call it a civilized barrage...
Better the 700 scum die fighting in Iraq than in the United States. When they are emptying the jails, they are running out of "troops".
U.S. Marine Maj. Gen. Richard Natonski stands at the bridge in the western part of Fallujah, Iraq, where the bodies of two American contractors killed by militants were strung up in March, sparking the earlier U.S. siege, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2004. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
Lance Cpl. Michael Oliver Ray, from Sarasota, Fla. The division moved into an industrial area of Falluja after fighting their way through the north where insurgents have taken hold.
Cpl. Joel Chaverri, a combat photographer also known as Kodak.
Lance Cpl. Hector Orrantia.
Cpl. William Johnson, from Philadelphia.
Pray for W and Our Troops
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