Insurgency in Fallujah on increase

[Barrett808]

FALLUJAH - Insurgent attacks in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are expected to rise over the next few months, a US commander said but vowed that rebels will not be allowed to regain control of their former bastion.

"There is no doubt that the insurgency will rise in and around Fallujah over the next few months as a lot of political developments take place," Colonel Mark Gurganus, the commanding officer of US marines in Fallujah, said.

The Sunni Arab town, 50 kilometres west of Baghdad, was recaptured by US forces following a massive military incursion in November.

Most of Fallujah's 300,000 inhabitants fled at the time and about half have since returned.

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"There is no way they can try anything spectacular. There is no way they can take control of Fallujah again," he said.

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http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/zones/sundaytimesNEW/basket7st/basket7st1122890736.aspx

[goforit]

1. Unbelievable response.

[Coexist]

2. I thought we napalm-ed them into Democracy already?

WTF?

[Dhalgren]

3. Looks like it didn't "take"...

[Barrett808]

4. Yes, we have freedomized Fallujah twice

Now it's a large outdoor prison.

[saigon68]

5. Gurganus = Another idiot doomed to repeat the past

When the Iraq-Nam adventure is lost, I will post this idiot's comments, and say I told him so.

[truth2power]

6. What??? We devastated the city and

napalmed the populace and that idiot STILL has to wear his helmet and body armor on the streets?? Ha hahahahaha...

"I accept that the city is still dangerous... I still have to wear my helmet and body armour when I walk on the streets, but it is not what it was earlier," the marine officer said."

How is this an improvement? I swear, did they get these spokespeople from Clown College?? :banghead:

[cliss]

7. I'd say there's a little bit of a .........

resentment in Falloujah.

Could it be? Before the bombings, I saw photos of people trying to save their few possessions and get out of town. It was really sad: people scrambling to get out before the U.S. moved in.

Afterwards, many people said there was nothing to come home to. Their houses had been turned to rubble. The city was bombed back into the Stone Age.

And there's STILL an insurgency going on. Now there's a head-scratcher for you, Colonel Gurganus.

As they're thinking this over in Washington, U.S. troop deaths continue to mount. We're hemorrhaging to death financially. And Iraqis have access to several tons of explosives from the Al-Qaqaa weapons dump.

I'd say this is a recipe for - disaster.

[bennywhale]

8. I thought Falluja had been Stalingraded. What would anyone be fighting

for but rubble. Good solution to problem though. City problematic = make city not exist anymore

[tocqueville]

9. Insurgency in Fallujah expected to worsen: US commander

FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFP) - Insurgent attacks in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are expected to rise over the next few months, a US commander said, but vowed that rebels will not be allowed to regain control of their former bastion.

"There is no doubt that the insurgency will rise in and around Fallujah over the next few months as a lot of political developments take place," Colonel Mark Gurganus, the commanding officer of US marines in Fallujah, told AFP.

The Sunni Arab town, 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of Baghdad, was recaptured by US forces following a massive military incursion in November.

Most of Fallujah's 300,000 inhabitants fled at the time and about half have since returned.

With reconstruction of the city underway, more are now expected to return home. But the US military believes rebels are bound to come back with them.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050801/wl_mideast_afp/iraqfallujahinsurgency

[The_Casual_Observer]

10. The freeps believed that the first of the Fallujah genocide campaigns

would "break the back" of the insurgency. As with all things freeper, they were totally wrong and believed idiotic propaganda white house and pentagon lies.

[neweurope]

11. I wonder which "new developments" they are planning. Must be bad

if they already expect the insurgance to rise.


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Remember fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[NeoConsSuck]

12. That one line says it all..

There is no way they can try anything spectacular.

They don't need to do anything spectacular. Resistance forces win by not losing.

Drip, drip, drip...

[Hotdiggitydog]

13. About half of the 300,000 residents have returned....

That would be about right, since about half the structures were demolished when we 'liberated' it.