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| Falluja hit by renewed fighting | ||
| 2004-07-30 | ||
| Renewed clashes overnight in the flashpoint Iraqi city of Falluja have left at least nine Iraqis dead and several injured, local doctors say. US forces called in air support after insurgents attacked a joint patrol of US marines and Iraqi troops, an American military spokesman said. According to residents, a house in the Shuhada neighbourhood was destroyed. "I heard a very powerful explosion around 10:30 pm (1830 GMT) coming from the Shuhada neighbourhood," a resident told AFP news agency. "It was an air strike on a house," he said. Additional:On Friday, Dr. Salim Ibrahim at Fallujah General Hospital said he believed some 13 Iraqis were killed and 14 others wounded during fierce overnight fighting between U.S. forces and insurgents in Fallujah, west of Baghdad. Ibrahim could not give an exact count of the dead, because many of their bodies had been torn up in bombings.
Witnesses reported hearing more than 60 mortar rounds fired toward the eastern edge of the city, where Americans are based, and planes flying overhead. U.S. Marines suffered no casualties.
The military said the fighting began when insurgents attacked a joint patrol of Marines and Iraqi troops with gunfire, mortars and rocket propelled grenades. The troops responded with gunfire, tank fire and aircraft bombing raids, which hit a building the insurgents had fled to, the military reported. | ||
| Posted by:Steve |
| #8 John is absolutely correct and it is becoming increasingly clear that it IS the strategy to concentrate the AIF in Fallujah. Let them think they have a sanctuary and destroy their primary weapon: mobility. Then you wipe them out. The Belmont Club predicted this months ago and once again, he's right. |
| Posted by: RMcLeod 2004-07-30 10:27:24 PM |
| #7 I still think the winning strategy for Fallujah is to pull all US forces and "friendly" Iraqis out of Fallujah and test a few dozen MOAB weapons on the city. Of course, there would be some "civilian" casualties. IF you don't want to die, get rid of the people that attract artillery, cannon, and tank fire, and large bombs. That's not so hard, is it? Of course, some people can't get a clue, even if you forced one on them in the most uncompromising, socially-unacceptable way. That's why they call stupidity a terminal illness. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-07-30 6:47:19 PM |
| #6 Sounds like them insurgency fellers are getting a bit of cabin fever. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2004-07-30 6:35:53 PM |
| #5 I notice the expression "in an industrial area" coming up again. We have been using the Fallujah terrain to best advantage, luring the bad boys to fight in underpopulated areas rather than residential areas. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-07-30 5:13:48 PM |
| #4 AIF mortarmen were observed fleeing the area after the counter fire. Don't the Marines or the IF pursue and kill these guys? Seems to me that would be the logical thing to do, lest these guys end up launching other attacks at a later date. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-07-30 12:53:06 PM |
| #3 I wonder if the greenies are just pushing off the top of the antbed just to stay in practice. Hmmm.... ants.. Any reasearch been done on a fireant bomb? 500 hundred queen clusters dispensed over 800 acres. Hell now that would be a WMD. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-07-30 12:14:35 PM |
| #2 The Flypaper Strategy Part Deux. 1. Enourage all the islamic terroroists to jihad against the Great Satan in Iraq. 2. Encourage them all to seek sanctuary in Fallujah. 3. Send in the Marines as required. |
| Posted by: john 2004-07-30 11:42:05 AM |
| #1 Fallujah, Iraq - Marines of the I Marine Expeditionary Force responded with tanks and artillery fire to repeated anti-Iraqi force attacks on a position the Marines held near Fallujah Thursday evening. The I MEF personnel manning the position had no casualties from the mortars, RPGs, machine guns and small-arms fire used by AIF. The Marines' return fire was directed at enemy mortarmen observed firing several hundred meters away from the I MEF position in the vicinity of the Fallujah cloverleaf. AIF mortarmen were observed fleeing the area after the counter fire. The enemy activity temporarily ceased after being engaged with the tanks and artillery. Iraqi National Guard and Police provided support to the operations. Additional I MEF artillery fire and close-air support were brought to bear on AIF who fled to buildings near the eastern edge of the city. Estimates of enemy casualties are unknown at this time. MNF-Iraq |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2004-07-30 11:16:23 AM |