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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 04:24 AM
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U.S. Says Falluja Air Strike Killed Zarqawi Aide
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20041026/wl_nm/iraq_dc


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A U.S. statement said the "precision strike" in northwest Falluja at 3 a.m. (2000 EDT) had hit a safe house used by the Jordanian militant's al Qaeda-linked movement, adding that a known, but unnamed, Zarqawi associate was present at the time.


Residents said the raid had destroyed one house and damaged three. Hospital staff said they had received no casualties.


Witnesses said U.S. troops shot dead a civilian driver near a checkpoint on a highway to Jordan that runs past Falluja. There was no immediate comment from the U.S. military.


Many families have fled Falluja, fearing a widely expected U.S. offensive designed to bring the city under the interim government's control before elections planned for January.

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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 04:31 AM
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1. "Precision Strikes"....


An Iraqi boy rescues a destroyed bicycle from the debris of a destroyed building in Fallujah, outside Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004, after U.S. troops pounded Fallujah with airstrikes, destroying one house and damaging three others. (AP Photo/Mohammed Khodor)




Iraqis inspects a destroyed building in Fallujah, outside Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004, after U.S. troops pounded Fallujah with airstrikes, destroying one house and damaging three others. (AP Photo/Mohammed Khodor
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DELUSIONAL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 04:39 AM
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2. Yep - sure -- Ya bet cha -- that's who was killed
killed the aid of a guy that had a broken leg or missing leg or maybe not. He was killed or maybe not.

And now that ghost -- bad guy (or maybe not) has an aid -- or just an unlucky guy who was killed -- you know the military age male -- and yep he is the aid of the bad guy.

Gotta have a bad guy to focus on -- every war need the really evil bad guy. If he isn't real -- just make him up -- have an actor put on a mask and act really bad. Smoke and mirrors -- Smoke and mirrors.

Is this true -- or another manufactured lie -- just in time for the last week of the election battle??

There are so darn many lies coming from EVERYWHERE -- who knows what is truth, reality or just another lie by the bush crime family???

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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 07:54 AM
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3. more al-Zarqawi aides emerge from hiding....


Children are led over bricks from their home, following an overnight air raid that destroyed one house and damaged three in the Iraqi city of Falluja October 26, 2004. U.S. troops cut roads and reinforced positions around Falluja after an air strike aimed at Arab militants said to roam the rebel-held city.. Photo by Reuters
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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 09:09 AM
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4. Another "aide or close associate"...that makes 10 million killed so far
there's an unlimited supply of aides and close associates. I think they are called everyone else.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 09:40 AM
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5. The house was empty
"However, a Falluja resident strongly disagreed.

"These four houses that were destroyed were empty. The families left them about a month ago," he said. "There is no one there, no Zarqawi, no militants, no mujahedeen. The plane hit (the houses) at exactly 0300 local time. Thank God there was no one there.""

I guess bombing empty houses and lying is better than bombing houses with little kids inside and lying.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/26/iraq.main/index.html
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snippy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 09:52 AM
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6. Anyone know whether this is the first time we have killed this guy?
I have noticed that Bush likes to announce killing the same guy over and over.



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MacDo Donating Member (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-26-04 09:59 AM
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7. Wow
Zarqawi sure has alot of Aides. You'd think he would have run out by now.
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