Insurgents in Iraq Launch Deadly Attacks

[JNelson6563]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20041106/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_041106182403

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By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Facing a major assault in Fallujah, insurgents struck back Saturday with suicide car bombs, mortars and rockets across a wide swath of central Iraq (news - web sites), killing over 30 people and wounding more than 60 others, including two dozen Americans.


The attacks could have been aimed at relieving pressure on Fallujah, where about 10,000 American troops are massing for a major assault. U.S. jets pounded Fallujah early Saturday in the heaviest airstrikes in six months — including five 500-pound bombs dropped on insurgent targets.


The deadliest attacks Saturday occurred in Samarra, a city 60 miles north of Baghdad that U.S. and Iraqi commanders have touted as model for pacifying restive Sunni Muslim areas of the country.

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Twenty-nine people, including 17 police and 12 Iraqi civilians, were killed throughout the city, the U.S. military said. Arabic language television stations said more than 30 died as gangs of insurgents roamed the city, clashing with American and Iraqi forces.

(I looked for this in LBN but didn't see it, please delete if dupe.)

This is going to be a truly horrible event. And to think this is just the start of the next four years of blood 'n' guts. Ugh.

Julie

[rockydem]

1. Quicksand

The more we struggle, the deeper we sink.

[pfitz59]

2. Quagmire....

The harder we struggle, the more we're stuck

[pinerow]

3. First rule of guerilla warfare...don't be where you have to meet

the invading force head on...be where they are not.
All the greatest followed this tactic.

Mao Zedong
Fidel Castro
Ho Chi Minh

[arcane1]

4. five 500-pound bombs dropped on insurgent targets

WTF is an "insurgent target" anyway?

Homes?

Schools?

Government buildings?

Mosques?

:shrug:

[likesmountains 52]

5. hospitals, sadly