U.S. Military Fails to Advance in Falluja, Reinforcements Called

[PfcHammer]

http://www.yellowtimes.org/print.php?sid=1870

Date: Saturday, April 10, 2004 @ 12:33:17 CST
Topic: News from the Front

Report by Firas al-Atraqchi, YellowTimes.org
NewsFromtheFront.org

CAIRO (NFTF.org) -- As the people of Falluja continue to appeal to the international community to come to their aid, the U.S. Military announced it was reinforcing its troops surrounding the city.

It is expected that the 1,200 troops will be reinforced with a full battalion.

Meanwhile, Iraqi doctors are condemning the ominous silence of Arab governments.

"Where are the dogs of the Arab League, the cowards hiding all these Arabs who say they are Arab as they watch hundreds of civilians die? Where are they? Fallujah is dying, the American filth are killing an entire city," Fallujah doctor Bassam Al Qufeili told Arab media.

Meanwhile, three Iraqi resistance fighters were reported killed in Mosul, seven Mahdi Army militiamen in Ramadi and three others in a firefight with Iraqi police in central Baghdad.

As for the abducted former U.S. serviceman working as a private security guard, his captors aired a video of the man, looking visibly scared, an Iraqi flag adorning a wall behind him. His captors threatened to execute him if U.S. forces do not pull out of Fallujah.

Iraq experts are warning foreigners that they are now targets in Iraq.

It is unknown whether U.S. authorities are trying to negotiate the American's release.

[Submariner]

1. American "FILTH" are killing an entire city

Thanks Dubya, you AWOL fucking coward, for re-starting your poppy's war and creating and image where we are referred to as "filth."

[number6]

2. going from bad to worse

:(

[maggrwaggr]

3. translation: Americans are getting their asses kicked

they are NOT gonna be able to "take over" Fallujah without completely destroying it i.e. Grozny.

[Tinoire]

14. We are in total agreement. Against this they won't take squat...

By the time you get women, armed and out in the street, it's effing over.





April 09, 2004

Iraqi Insurgents Take Highway at Abu Grahib

The main highway west out of Baghdad is held by the Iraqi insurgents. They've destroyed a fuel convoy, killing nine people. Most news stories are reporting one US soldier dead in this incident so presumably the other 8 are Iraqi.

Hundreds of militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades and Kalashnikov assault rifles were running along the highway or hiding in houses nearby, the correspondent said.

US troops were positioned on a bridge that links the old and new highway while insurgents controlled the stretch of highway between Abu Gharib and Fallujah further west.

Armed militants were also stationed outside Abu Gharib prison, an infamous jail under Saddam Hussein's ousted regime which has been reopened by the US-led coalition.

"Thursday night there was a violent attack against the prison and the Americans left their positions," one of the insurgents said who declined to be named.

"Around 55 prisoners managed to escape," he added.

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Apparently the Americans haven't tried to retake the highway. It is unclear at this time what the status of the prison at Abu Gharib is. There are reportedly thousands of prisoners, mostly Iraqi, held there. From the above report it appears that some have escaped. Reuters is running the above rather disturbing photographs. On the left two Iraqi boys are holding an American military uniform. On the right they are looting a flaming military vehicle.

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http://ancapistan.typepad.com/unfairwitness/2004/04/iraqi_insurgent.html

[PfcHammer]

15. you go girl

[SoDesuKa]

4. Falluja - The Iraq War's My Lai Incident?

The absurdly disproportionate vengeance taken at Falluja will discredit the war in the minds of people who presently support it, however weakly. There really is no excuse for gathering people into a closed-in area for the purpose of killing them. You have to be bent-over-backwards in support of Bush not to find this massacre morally repugnant.

[DrWeird]

8. No, in My Lai US troops shot the women and children

after raping them. In Fallujah they let some of the women and children go. Not that I'm excusing war crimes.

[daleo]

10. I doubt that many got out though

Lots would have been too sick, injured, weak, old, or young. Others just would not desert their menfolk, including boys as young as 11. If the same event were happening in the U.S., how many mothers would leave their city, abandoning their 11 year old boys to possible death at the hands of an invading army?

[Chicago Democrat]

5. Warcrimes - Indict Bush! eom

[NMDemDist2]

6. how big is a battalion?

[PfcHammer]

9. BATTALION – 300 to 1,000 soldiers.

Four to six companies make up a battalion, which is normally commanded by a lieutenant colonel with a command sergeant major as principal NCO assistant. A battalion is capable of independent operations of limited duration and scope. An armored or air cavalry unit of equivalent size is called a squadron.

[aquart]

7. Palestinians have always wondered where the other Arabs are.

[ConcernedCanuk]

11. They are in there supposedly trying to negotiate a truce

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While rushing in reinforcements. Right.

Oh, did anyone find out how many reporters they are going to allow in the area?

There better not be a slaughter there, or the whole country will go nuts.

The US should realize that all those people have relatives, and beliefs in retribution that go back, not centuries, but millenniums.

But alas, the US still goes down the same road, if they can't make peace with these weapons, well they 'll just get more, bigger and BETTER weapons.

Then everybody will love them!

[Just Me]

12. There should be NO question about why we are hated.

What an awful mess. How horribly sad.

Damnit!

IMPEACH BUSH RIGHT NOW AND CHARGE HIS LOYALISTS WITH CRIMES!

I don't think we will make it through another election without this freakin' mess spiralling all out of control.

[Miss Authoritiva]

13. Ah, yes, reinforcements of "good will"

n/t