Iraqi resistance forces continue advance down Euphrates towards Baghdad

[DuctapeFatwa]

Iraqi partisans on the Euphrates front win decisive field victories,
heading for Baghdad. The US is desperate for reinforcements and supplies, being unable to protect its logistics bases and supply convoys, let alone mount offensive ground operations. Blair throws the British Black Watch regiment into the fire to shore up besieged US units until the January elections, after which the US withdrawal is expected.

According to the Iraq resistance report of October 13-15, the resistance is pounding the US and puppet occupation forces on a 350-km front along the Euphrates, stretching west from Baghdad to Syria through the towns of Falluja, Ramadi, Hit, Rawah, 'Anah, and al-Qaim. The Iraqi partisans appear to be operating in military formations complete with rocket artillery and short-range antiaircraft batteries.

At al-Qaim, near the Syrian border, a US base was destroyed by heavy mortar and rocket fire on October 5-6 and partisans overran the "Iraqi National Guard" base on Monday, October 11 (source ). Partisans infiltrated the base with the help of the so-called "National Guard," even driving in with some of the puppet forces' own Humvees to machine-gun the enemy. The town was essentially cleared of US and puppet occupation forces early Wednesday. Iraqi partisan units at al-Qaim then began moving east towards Rawah and 'Anah, aiming eventually to link up with those further west at Hit. Thsi suggests that partisan units will advance along the Euphrates cleaning up occupation forces and finally march on Baghdad.

http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=27161


Note: This story is based on reports filed by non-western reporters on the ground in the locations mentioned, as opposed to US military approved reporters barricaded in a hotel in Baghdad, so it is not suitable for the news forum.

The reporters who file the these stories do not even attend US military briefings. They are spread out all over Iraq in areas where it would be too dangerous to have a US military briefing.

[NMDemDist2]

1. holy chit, this news is bad for our guys but no one will report it here

how well can we vet this source?

it is claiming 40 marines dead?

[leftchick]

2. so in other words, that 1101 dead US soldiers is in reality....

much too low? I trust these reports much more than the ultra-filtered news that makes it out in traditional sources. If this war ever ends, I wonder how long it will take for the true toll to come out on US soldiers and the Iraqis.

:(

[Sterling]

3. If they are expecting a US withdrawl the are gonna be very sad

Either they kick us out or we are the new landlord. I also doubt they can have any formation type actions with the US and gain any ground. Yes they can ambush, and hold cities only because we cannot at this point be aggressive enough to openly kill the kinds of civilians it would take to dislodge them, but we still have an airforce and they cannot move in formation in the open without being blown to bits.

I can see that under the cover of "Iarqi Special forces" we are starting to just lay waste to whole blocks in hold out towns.

[Raiden]

4. What'd ya expect?

Our forces have bombed their cities, killed their families, and raped their lands of its precious resources. The insurgents have nothing to lose and everything to gain. That is why Dubya's naive plan to "kill all them terrists" is so fundamentally flawed. There isn't a finite number of terrorists, and assuming that you can just pick 'em off one by one is completely foolish. It reminds me of what one Republican Congressman, whose name I can't remember, said, "Terrorism is like a hydra," when you cut off one head, two more grow back in its place.