Marines win Iraq desert battle, war far from over

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L21368406.htm

Marines win Iraq desert battle, war far from over
21 Jun 2005 11:30:16 GMT

Source: Reuters

By Peter Graff

KARABILA, Iraq, June 21 (Reuters) - U.S. Marines claimed success on Tuesday in another battle against insurgents in the Iraqi desert but acknowledged that the war was far from over and that guerrillas would soon recover lost ground.

After four days of bombardment and street-to-street gunbattles, the Marines cleared Karabila -- a strategic way station near the main border crossing where the Euphrates flows in from Syria -- of foreign fighters who made it a base.

But U.S. officers and local people in the town, badly damaged by the fighting, said the insurgents would be back.

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Battalion intelligence officer Captain Thomas Sibley pointed out, however, that any final victory was still some way off: "If this was the only thing we did, we would lose this war -- quickly. But it's not the only thing we're doing.

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[saigon68]

1. Viet-Nam Tet 1968--- Redux

The Iraqi Resistance melted away to fight another day

TO EJECT THE CHRISTIAN CRUSADER MURDERERS AND OIL THIEVES FROM THEIR LAND.

LOL.

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2. Duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1565717