Fresh Falluja assault launched

[bemildred]

For contrast with the "Assault is over, just cleaning up" stories.

Backed by tanks and artillery fire, US troops have launched a major attack today against insurgent holdouts in southern Falluja, hoping to finish off resistance in what had been the major guerrilla bastion of central Iraq.

In northern Mosul, a car bomb exploded as a convoy of Iraqi National Guards passed by through the eastern part of the city, witnesses said.

In recent days, an armed uprising in sympathy with Falluja's insurgents has left 10 Iraqi National Guards and one American soldier killed since Thursday, the US military said.

All of Falluja appeared engulfed in thick, black smoke as the attack began at midday today amid the crackle of machine guns and the flashes of fire from muzzles of American tanks arrayed around the southern rim of the city.

Guardian UK

[livinbella]

1. Guess this means no admittance for The Red Crescent, huh?

We should just put Sharon in command of all
military operations. What are we waiting for.

[lynx rufus]

2. beast! beast! beast! Wheel out the beast!

This whole business has the mark of that beast all over it.
I know the monster by the print of its abomination.

[seriousstan]

3. Another thread said they have entered

probably another section of the city. This is a big city. I hope some of the suffering are getting relief.