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Weekly Standard ^ | 11/20/2006 | M. Fumento

[wildbill]

Ramadi Operation Phantom Fury, the U.S. assault on Falluja in Iraq's Al Anbar Province in November 2004, is widely perceived as the greatest coalition victory against Iraq's insurgent and terrorist forces. It did indeed end enemy control over the city. But civilian casualties were high because of the massive use of firepower. About a fourth of the city's homes were destroyed and another fourth damaged.

And while many of the enemy died, the advance notice of the attack plus the ability to escape across the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in small boats meant that most of the fighters killed were probably seeking martyrdom. The rest simply scattered like rats. Most of those rebuilt their nests 30 miles west of Falluja and 30 miles closer to Syria, in Anbar's capital, Ramadi.

[wildbill]

Fumento is a true combat journalist of the old school who actually goes out with the troops on missions.

He's not a '3 day wonder' who visits Iraq for a few days, stays in the protected Green Zone and then finds a local color background to pontificate in a sound bite.

It's a couple of pages, but if you wont spend that much time to find out what's really happening in the war, then you should be a Democrat at Move.on.

[Incorrigible]

Lazy Ramadi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwpyCFt-Tgg

[Cannoneer No. 4]

“My camera is my weapon!” says the ferocious Fumento

Ramadi, Oct. 2006 Photos by Michael Fumento

We ought to have a Freepathon to raise money for Fumento.