Offensive kills dozens of Iraqi insurgents, military says

[leftchick]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/05/iraq.main/index.html

HUSAYBA, Iraq (CNN) -- Dozens of insurgents have been killed during Operation Steel Curtain, the major offensive kicked off Saturday in Husayba, the Iraqi city on the Syrian border, military officials told CNN.

U.S. Marines, soldiers and sailors and Iraqi soldiers have been engaging in firefights with militants attempting to stand and fight. At least three Marines received minor wounds.

Forces proceeding into the southwestern part of the Anbar province town have found at least 30 improvised explosive devices, rigged to the houses and roads. Two suicide car bombs have been found.

In one case, a house was rigged so thoroughly with IEDs that the Marines decided to detonate it with a laser-guided missile.

[Sandpiper]

1. Body count "victories"

Just like Vietnam.

[sam sarrha]

12. i hope they got all those Terra'ists with those deadly teddy bear bombs

:cry: :sarcasm:

[kenny blankenship]

2. ...aaaand dozens more Iraqis witnessing the devastation decide they have

nothing left to lose and much to avenge. Round and round it goes.

[daleo]

3. U.S. forces may be prevailing at the Syrian border

(According to this article.)

But 17 are already dead in the five days of this month.

[Barrett808]

5. Meanwhile, five neighborhoods of Baghdad belong to the insurgency

Some not half a mile from the Green Zone...

[beingthere]

4. How many kids and elderly

[goodboy]

6. aren't these the same "body count victories" from the Vietnam era? (nt)

[niallmac]

7. Is there an 'official' U.S. of A. definition of 'Insurgent'?

Is it anyone rising up in revolt? If we are the 'liberators' what are we liberating them from...the insurgents? I mean, do you ever wake up one day just paying taxes to a war machine that keeps killing and killing and think; "Hey, I forgot why we are killing these people that I know nothing about."

[leftchick]

8. yes

any brown person that moves.

[niallmac]

16. Good defininition; Simple, concise and horridly true. nt

[meti57b]

9. Offensive kills dozens of Iraqi citizens fighting for their country ....

against a hostile foreign occupation.

How many more or our military and their people must die before we come to our senses and get out.

[Doctor_J]

10. Did they get Al Queda #3 again?

it's been awhile

[deutsey]

11. And, in the process, creates dozens more

:evilfrown:

[LibDemAlways]

13. When will the whore media quit

using the term "insurgent"? If the US was attacked and occupied by a foreign power, would citizens who fought back be "insurgents" or "patriots" who wanted the invaders the hell out of their country?

[IndianaGreen]

14. US bombing endangering civilians

Residents and local leaders say US bombardment in the Husaiba area were endangering civilians and could lead to greater instability throughout the country.

Call for intervention

"We call all humanitarians and those who carry peace to the world to intervene to stop the repeated bloodshed in the western parts of Iraq," said Shaikh Osama Jadaan, a Sunni tribal leader from the area.

"And we say to the American occupiers to get out of Iraq and leave Iraq to the Iraqis."

Husaiba, a poor rural town of about 30,000, is the first stop in a network of communities which the US military insists has been used by al-Qaida to smuggle fighters, weapons and explosives from Syria down the Euphrates valley to Baghdad and other cities.

Many of Husaiba's residents had fled the town after weeks of US military bombardment.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7C009065-E59A-4584-BAD8-A270BF992293.htm

[leftchick]

15. I was looking for another realistic version of the killings

Thank you IG. And the US war crimes go on and on and on...