Marines hampered by security fears in Falluja

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GEO237073.htm

FALLUJA, Iraq, Nov 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Marines were conducting painstaking weapons searches in the Iraqi city of Falluja on Monday when they spotted a man with an AK-47 rifle on a nearby rooftop.

Armed only with a light weapon, he could never stand up to what they were about to unleash. But he was enough to distract Marines from a task that is key to stabilising Falluja after a U.S.-led offensive crushed rebels controlling the Sunni Muslim city.

The angle of the rooftop could not quite accommodate the trajectory of a shoulder-launched Javelin missile so Marines fired the more direct, wire-guided TOW missile after a debate.

Then they fired hefty .50 calibre machinegun rounds at the rooftop, blew up a door and stormed a living room. It was an impressive display of firepower but they raided the wrong house.

When they finally made it to the pulverised rooftop with smoke still rising from the machinegun bullet holes, the man with one rifle they were seeking had escaped.

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[leftchick]

1. Oh this is just so fucking funny!

I forgot to laugh. These people are truly twisted to see humor in the destruction. :(

~snip~

Standing over a crater six metres (20 ft) across and six metres deep in a street created by what he said was a 2,000- pound bomb during the offensive, Staff Sargeant Jonathan Knarth, 29, of Florida, looked at down the deep water at the bottom.

"Hey look all you have to do is extend a slide from that rooftop to the water and you have an amusement park right here courtesy of the United States Air Force."

[KingChicken]

2. Sometimes they forget how people used to live in that city, people lives.

[Swamp Rat]

3. Oops! We're sorry, we killed the wrong family.

:shrug:

[lil-petunia]

4. We will destroy this city in order to save it.

Praise be! Admit an Abrams into your home and be saved!

Is this sick or what?