Sense of dread hangs over Fallujah as battle with U.S. troops looms

[leftchick]

.... very interesting story from the inside of Fallujah.


http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/10072027.htm

~snip~

FALLUJAH, Iraq - Rebels dressed as Iraqi police manned checkpoints in this insurgent-controlled city Monday as U.S. forces continued to mass outside in preparation for an assault everyone is certain will come soon.

Merchants shuttered their shops. Residents fled. Medical workers set up a field clinic in case clashes sever the ambulance route to the main hospital.

The message was the same from mosque loudspeakers, photocopied pamphlets and whispers on street corners: The Americans are coming for a showdown

~snip~

A militant group called Mohammed's Army claimed to have ambushed and killed 11 Marines trying to enter Fallujah and vowed to post photos of the dead on the Internet. Another, the Lions of God and Victorious Ali, claimed that one of its fighters shot down an American helicopter with a surface-to-air missile, and added that the rebel was "martyred" by return fire. U.S. military spokesmen dismissed both claims.

"We will show the Americans new and innovative suicide operations," the Lions of God statement warned. "It's not a car bombing. It's not the usual attack. The Americans can expect a variety of new operations."

(This story was reported by a Knight Ridder Newspapers special correspondent in Fallujah whose name was withheld for security reasons and written by Hannah Allam in Baghdad.)

[steve2470]

1. I am sure this is not politically timed ! [sarcasm] nt

[farmbo]

2. To think...Rove's going to be ordering GIs to their deaths, so tha"war"...

...will be on people's minds on election day.

:grr:

[maddezmom]

3. sense of dread hangs over the world, excluding the repubs that will be

voting for *.

[Barrett808]

4. The Grozny solution

Oh, how I hope history judges these war criminals.

Harshly.

[leftchick]

5. Foreign Fighters = Multi-National forces!

<Suhail al Abdali, a Fallujah fighter in his 30s who wouldn't identify the group he'd joined, said there "absolutely" were foreign Islamic extremists joining the fight. However, he emphasized, most Fallujah militants are Iraqis who are wary of the foreign extremist elements but bound by custom to accept offers of battlefield help from men they consider brothers in Islam.


"Didn't the Americans bring with them the British and the Italians? Well, we have multinational forces, too," al Abdali said with a laugh. "The Americans themselves resisted the British when they tried to control them, so how dare anyone ask us why we fight? Resistance is legal." >

[Disturbed]

6. The Slaughter.

The onslaught of the US Forces may remind many Americans how much of a failure the illegal war on Iraq has been. Iraqis, for the most part, will NEVER accept U.S Colonization.

[saigon68]

7. He's right too Fallujahgrad will be a place of death

For a lot of 18 year old Marines who joined the Corps to kill a few "RAG-HEADS"

Great sport eh boys !!!! as you attempt to hold your intestines in after an RPG has passed through your lower bowel.

[leftchick]

8. Marine: "Get out or we will kill you"!

Heard tonight on CBS news... :(

[saigon68]

9. Nice ignorant comment

Be careful what you wish for. You might be the frst one killed in your platoon.

[leftchick]

10. ignorant indeed....

I can't help but think of what a few thousand pounds of missing explosives can do to help the resistance.


happy election day saigon!
we will win!!

:hi:

[saigon68]

11. I'm praying and at 8:00 A.M I am going to vote

I am then volunteering to drive as many as I can to the polls I am taking the day off.

We need every vote here in Wisconsin.

Yay Team Kerry !!!!!!!!!

[JoFerret]

12. Imagine living in a city

and knowing that in the next few days all hell will break loose around you and you have no way to protect yourself and no way to know whether you will will still be alive and your house still standing. With no hope in sight from any direction.

[atreides1]

13. Some Do Know

Leningrad, Stalingrad, the Warsaw Ghetto, and Grozny the survivors of these places know. So now we add Fallujah to that list, only now it is the US that is Goliath to the Iraqi's David, the SS to the Iraqi Resistance fighters, the FSB to the Chechen Freedom fighters.

It will be a bloody fight, and in the end the US will persevere, if you consider killing woman and children a type of perseverance. But to some they are collateral damage.

The US will not come out of this unscathed, soldiers and marines will lose their lives, body parts, and some will lose their minds when they realize that they have done the same thing that was done by the Roman Legions, by the SS, and other conquerors who have shed the blood of innocents for nothing more then to show who was the strongest.

If it's your way, say a prayer for all who will die, but say a prayer for those who will live, for they will need it the most.

"Only the dead know the end of War"