Posted on 11/22/2004 10:10:55 PM PST by TexKat
The Marine on the left is someone near and dear to our own freeper sdpatriot. I will let her explain.
Marines from the 1st U.S. Marines Expeditionary Force, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines Regiment, Bravo Company hold a suspected insurgent, arrested during the ground offensive Tuesday 11/10/04 in Fallujah.
Ah, I was trying to be nice Bahbah.
LOL.. and one holding a rusty knife..
Could be No Blue States. I remember after major operations May 2003, the shites started picking off some of the sunnis there for awhile.
thank you.. : )
i'm waiting for Allegra to show up.. she was going to keep an eye out for Jordy.. now she has a visual aid.
thank God for you Freepers.. i was loony during the Najaf battle and NO NEWS...
"The triangle is finally getting cleaned up. And we can be sure the terrorists also fear what happened in Fallujah. Also any families that leave their strongholds deprive them of human shields."
Very true.
The main reason why this will not go down the tubes like Vietnam is that we have moved control from a minority faction to a majority faction.
Over the next few years we will have to worry about reprisals, and worry about the Kurds, but Saddam's faction will not be returning to power.
Talk about modesty...
Reserver soldiers from Kansas, Oklahoma honored for herosim.
"I'm proud to wear (the medal), my family is proud," Elliott said. "But honestly, they're giving me a medal for doing my job."
http://www.ardmoreite.com/stories/112304/new_1123040021.shtml
This is an article from last month regarding the location referred to in the article that you posted above.
Tuz Khurmatu:
Guardsmen have difficult year Deaths, injuries mark time in Iraq
The Associated Press
WILMINGTON -- A year ago, 700 soldiers of the 120th Infantry Regiment called Wilmington, Jacksonville, Smithfield and other parts of Eastern North Carolina home. Today, most are about nine months into their mission in northern Iraq.
It's been a long year for the soldiers of the Wilmington-based unit who had worked as prison guards, lawyers, teachers, students or in other professions and seen four members killed in Iraq.
The unit has trained Iraqi police and security forces, helped set up the Iraqi equivalent of a 911 dispatch center, seized weapons caches, rebuilt schools and guarded the border between Iran and Iraq.
Four members of the 120th have been killed -- Spc. Jocelyn Joce Carrasquillo, Capt. Christopher Cash, Spc. Daniel Desens Jr. and Staff Sgt. Michael Voss.
The worst day for the 120th came on June 24 in Baqubah, an insurgent hotbed northeast of Baghdad. Cash and Desens were killed that day and eight or nine guardsmen were wounded.
A group of highly trained fighters armed with bombs, rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns ambushed a unit on patrol about 3 a.m., said Lt. Col. James Stevens, the 120th's commander.
"This was a well-planned fight by people who are willing to sit and shoot direct-fire weapons with you, which doesn't happen too often," he said. "These are guys that aren't afraid to fight. These are the guys you want dead."
Stevens estimated his men killed 40 to 50 insurgents and wounded others in the two-day firefight that grew out of the ambush.
At least 15 members of the 120th have been wounded in Iraq, Stevens said.
Most of the National Guard unit's members are housed at two bases in rural regions of Iraq. One is Camp Bernstein, near Tuz Khurmatu, a city of about 90,000 in northeastern Iraq. The other is Camp Caldwell, near Balad Ruz, about 70 miles east of Baghdad, near the Iranian border.
The areas surrounding the 120th bases aren't as dangerous as others, but the potential for conflict is everywhere. While his soldiers haven't experienced much direct fire, roadside bombs are always a concern, Stevens said.
"We don't go more than four or five days without something going boom," he said.
Every couple of weeks, someone launches a rocket onto Camp Bernstein, but those attacks have yet to inflict injuries and are more of a nuisance than anything else, said Stevens, who is stationed there.
Though the unit is scheduled to be replaced in late December, the 120th could be used elsewhere if extra manpower is needed leading up to Iraqi elections in January.
no lie.. humble and brave heroes..
God bless Staff Sgt. Chuck Elliott and Sgt. Kenneth Miller... and thank you..
That doesn't sound like a huge weapons cache. It is a huge weapons cache! Thanks for the info an link.
Tribal leaders in Kirkuk province vow fight against infiltrators.
Tribal leaders in the Haweeja district of Kirkuk province have decided to kill those armed groups trying to infiltrate the district for any reason. More than 100 tribal leaders and notables decided to end the armed scenes in the cities, asking the multilateral forces to stay away from the city lest they provoke the residents. They guarantee to settle security, stability and to start rebuilding the city.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1286671/posts
No wonder they are robbing people for cash now, they need to buy more weapons.
May they be reduced to rock throwing before their justified demise.
"Talk about modesty..."
Great article - thanks.
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U.S. Army soldiers from the 82nd Engineer Battalion, 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Infantry Division, clear a house where some insurgents have holed up in the war-torn city of Falluja, November 22, 2004. Iraq (news - web sites)'s U.N. representative, Samir Shakir Sumaidaie, told Reuters that attacks on insurgents in Falluja made it easier to hold the elections because it had destroyed the base and infrastructure of groups seeking to rule the country. Picture taken on November 22, 2004. EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/HO/US Army
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A blindfolded youth is guarded by a U.S. Marine following his arrest in the war-torn western city of Falluja, November 23, 2004. Iraq (news - web sites)'s U.N. representative, Samir Shakir Sumaidaie, told Reuters that attacks on insurgents in Falluja made it easier to hold the elections because it had destroyed the base and infrastructure of groups seeking to rule the country. REUTERS/Akram Saleh
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A U.S. Marine passes near a blindfolded youth following his arrest in the war-torn western city of Falluja, November 23, 2004. Iraq (news - web sites)'s U.N. representative, Samir Shakir Sumaidaie, told Reuters that attacks on insurgents in Falluja made it easier to hold the elections because it had destroyed the base and infrastructure of groups seeking to rule the country. REUTERS/Akram Saleh |
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Yes, freeper Gucho posted info to yesterdays thread regarding it. Info can also be found here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1286684/posts
“Suicide Charlie” Provides Wake Up Call For Insurgents
BIG PHANTOM FURY WARRIORS THANKING BUMP.
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