CNN: Fallujah On Fire

[matcom]

Buildings burning.

Pool reporter saying that fighting is heavy. Many casulties on both sides. Apache helicopters in the air.

Mosque hit.

Fuck you Bush.

[Thoth]

1. Shit...

I was expecting the siege of Fallujah to begin later this week, not that would have helped matters any. Looks like Bush didn't want to wait too long before "making up his mind". The blowback from this will be heard around the world.

[saigon68]

2. " BRING EM ON" screeched the CHIMPANZEE

And "bring it on" the resistance did.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. And when will the siege of Najaf start?

Because it will.

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. I'm sure the Iraqis will be rushing in to give up their weapons

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Right? :shrug:

[Paradise]

5. THIS is a nightmare! n/t

[dbt]

6. Yonder stands the Chimp with a can of WD-40,

lubricating the hinges on the Gates of Hell. See how well they work now. Oh, look! They're swinging open!

:freak:
dbt

[DS1]

7. So we've entered Najaf and Fallujah, George Bush is brave brave

man! :eyes:

[Scooter24]

8. ...

Such a tragedy.

And not a lesson learned from it either.

[matcom]

9. HOLY FUCK! HUGE EXPLOSIONS!!!!

black smoke POURING out of burning buildings!

those must be Rummy's flowers.

my heart weeps once again

[JCMach1]

10. Think WACO

that's what is happening...

[0rganism]

12. Waco, and maybe a touch of Mai Lai

Messy. Very messy.

[matcom]

13. think Revolution War

THAT is what is happening

[KerryThatWeight]

32. Not quite

The two buildings on fire are where the Marines were holed up when they were attacked by insurgents breaking the cease fire. I think Waco was a bit different.

[soup]

11. a link

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1082968740216B262&set_id=1
Violence erupts in volatile Fallujah

April 26 2004 at 10:39AM



Fallujah, Iraq - United States Marines and Iraqi guerrillas exchanged heavy fire in two districts of the besieged town of Fallujah on Monday, local residents said.

Clashes in the Golan and Shuhada districts broke out around 11.20am (07h20 GMT) and heavy explosions were continuing an hour later.

Insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades. The troops used heavy machineguns mounted on vehicles.

Local residents said the clashes appeared to have started when US forces probed into the northern areas of Fallujah. US officers had no immediate comment on the incidents.

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Cnn just reported 10 marines wounded - 4 seriously

[SodoffBush]

14. This is what * calls a "cease fire?"

Talk about a train-wreck of a foreign policy...

[Dudley_DUright]

15. CNN just had the gall to point out that

despite the fighting, the "cease fire" is still officially in effect in Fallujah. Also according to CNN, Black is White and War is Peace. :eyes:

[lostnfound]

22. Yep! Orwellian headline: 'Despite fighting, cease fire still in place' nt

[DeepModem Mom]

16. So far, no reports on Brit Sky, or BBC --

[soup]

17. Picture from CNN

Fresh fighting is being reported today between U.S. Marines and insurgents in the Iraqi city of Fallujah west of Baghdad. Video from the scene shows flames and black smoke rising from the town. The fighting comes a day after coalition officials said they were determined to give the "political track" a greater chance in Fallujah.
http://www.cnn.com/

[wildwww2]

31. CNN anchors should thank people for being stupid enough to believe

their tripe. Thank goodness I don`t have cable.
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

[Katarina]

18. But they got their new flag today!

yeah right, like they really give a flying fuck about a flag right now. What a horrible situation.

[soup]

35. Heard that.

Glad someone else did, too.

Thought I had to be imagining it. Video showing huge smoke plumes rising, and they're talking about flag colors.

Really weird disconnect there.

[izzie]

19. I see no point in this. All this for 4 guns for hire.

I guess it has left that spot and it is now they do as we say or else. Al Jazeera had a picture of a 2 years old dead. Are we now worried about the two year olds. Does anyone see what this shows to the world about us? Even if we had a good reason to go in to this city and I see no good reason , we can not win this in the minds of the worlds people. It is just plain silly, I think.

[dbt]

20. Headline on BBC: US holds off from Falluja assault

"The BBC's Justin Webb in Washington says President Bush appears to have decided that the risks of a full-scale attack are too great.

However, there are reported to be concerns inside the Pentagon that the proposed patrols will put US troops and their Iraqi colleagues at risk without achieving much.

And a US military spokesman said that military action was still an option.

There were reports of clashes between US marines and Iraqi fighters in Falluja earlier on Monday." (emphasis added)

More.

Somebody going off the script here or what?

:wtf:
dbt

[Dead_Parrot]

23. It had that last night...

They're a bit slow on the update, me thinks. The Bagdad bomb(s) have still only got as far as the ticker.

[Merlin]

24. I just heard the same on BBC via NPR at 6:30 AM EDT

How can the BBC not know what's really going on? Hell, they even had a report from a correspondent in a town near Fallujah.

[saigon68]

25. The "PRESS" only reports govt releases from the 5 O'Clock Follies

That's what FAUX NEWS does.

[Judi Lynn]

27. Went to your link, found the following from last Friday, so worth reading:

From a story linked on the right side of your article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3653223.stm
(Discusses U.S. firing on ambulances. No doubt about this.)


Falluja under siege
Witnesses tell of civilian suffering and attacks on ambulances

(snip)
In a separate incident, Dr Obaidi said, a driver and paramedic in an ambulance were shot in a US-controlled area - one in the chest, the other in the eyes.

The injured civilians inside the ambulance bled to death during the next two days as warning shots were fired when the team tried - four times - to return to collect the ambulance, he said.

'Hidden weapons':
Three days into the siege, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, denied that troops were firing on ambulances.

"If we're shooting vehicles, it's because those vehicles have shot at us," he said.
(snip/...)

[modrepub]

28. More

Picture emerges of Falluja siege


A truce has brought a reduction in violence in the Iraqi city of Falluja after US troops fought insurgents there during a two-week siege.
There was little media access during the fighting, but eyewitness reports are now emerging.

Humanitarian workers speak of US gunmen firing at ambulances and civilians.


Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3653223.stm

And no mention in any US news coverage...

[xchrom]

21. what can you say?

there are no words for this.
we have become a monster.

[0007]

26. I indeed didn't believe that junior would go through with

the threats. I'm more than convinced now that junior is a war criminal of the worse kind. This is insane!

He must be replaced immediately.

[ithacan]

29. Bush is absolutely incompetent

or maybe he really is aiming for that armageddon scenario...

I wish the rapture would happen already so his entire regime and all the right wing fundies would just disappear and leave us to live in peace!!

[KerryThatWeight]

30. Two small buildings on fire, ten marines injured

Not quite as dire as the headline.

[maddezmom]

33. 4 Marines seriously wounded and a mosque bombed

Cobra attack helicopter using machine gun fire; raking parts of the city.
Doesn't sound good to me. :eyes:

[Moderator]

34. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x510272

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