Inside Fallujah's war

[maddezmom]

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To avoid booby traps and ambushes, battalion leaders told the men to fire at houses and buildings before entering them. That made for a trail of destruction. There was no way to know for sure if they were hurting noncombatants, even in a city where most residents had fled.

The battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Newell, said US forces could never apply a ''Fallujah method" to other insurgent hubs in Iraq, such as Mosul and Baqubah, where civilian life continues more normally amid rebel activity. Continued...

(Page 2 of 4 --) ''This is the first time since World War II that someone has turned an American armored task force loose in a city with no restrictions," Newell said. ''Let's hope we don't see it again any time soon."


Asked what lessons he learned for the future of urban fighting, he said, ''Ask me in about a year."

much more: http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/11/28/inside_fallujahs_war?pg=2

[Warpy]

1. Check out the blog of the photographer who captured

the execution of the wounded Iraqi inside the mosque: http://www.kevinsites.net/

[KingChicken]

2. Better learn quicker than that, mabey learn how to respect your enemy.

You lose when you start to thinkin' your better that your opposition.

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

3. Kick

:kick:

[daleo]

4. Americans will be hated for decades, maybe centuries, in Fallujah

I don't think they will ever forget or forgive this level of death and destruction being unleashed on their city. Who would?