US Marines take up position after coming under attack in the western part of Fallujah, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 13th, 2004.
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| Families fleeing the besieged city of Fallujah say that rebel fighters have slipped through the American and Iraqi military cordon and have been driven away in Mercedes cars to rejoin the battle elsewhere in Iraq. The fighters, said to include foreign militants using satellite telephones, are believed to be heading for Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul, to open a new front. Abu Haider, 47, a mechanic who escaped with his family on Friday, said: "I saw many fighters with their faces covered, coming out beside us, carrying light weapons and their telephones. "I asked one how he had managed to arrange a lift to the city. He replied, 'It is the order. We have to choose another field to fight on outside Fallujah.' " Yesterday, President George W Bush gave warning that guerrilla violence in Iraq could worsen as the January elections draw near. "The desperation of the killers will grow and the violence could escalate," he said. Abu Haider was among hundreds of refugees to make his way out of Fallujah in the past few days. He fled with his wife and three children because his teenage daughter, Rana, needs fortnightly treatment for leukaemia at a hospital in Baghdad. He said that homes in the al-Shuhada district of southern Fallujah had been destroyed by US bombs. "It is like a hell in there," he said. "There are many people dead on the streets. There is a very bad smell."
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| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #9 The terrorists will be newbies in whatever city they find. If we and the ING move fast they'll be eminently catchable. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-11-14 9:25:01 PM |
| #8 Lucky, you left out Abu's toothy grin. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-11-14 11:15:18 AM |
| #7 LOL Lucky. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-11-14 11:14:51 AM |
| #6 As they run towards the big sedan, it's big V-8 at an idle, Abu shouts "shotgun"! |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-11-14 10:06:25 AM |
| #5 Well if there are hundreds of bodies in the streets then there's a decent chance that the military is actually downplaying the number of terrorists killed. Well, the chance that the person interviewed was actually in Fallujah seems pretty slim. Add that to the natural instinct of the jihadi to lie like a rug, and you have to think this guy was probably up in Mosul and has no idea what's happening in Fallujah. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-11-14 9:07:22 AM |
| #4 God bless our armed forces beating back the jihadist enemy. US Marines take up position after coming under attack in the western part of Fallujah, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 13th, 2004. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-11-14 5:44:19 AM |
| #3 Geee, leaving already??? And we thought they wanted to play, given all those brave Jihad Unspun and Al Jizz articles. It's always the same - their glorious leaders call for sacrifice and all that rot, then bugger out. S'okay, the flypaper effect is still unbelievably effective and there is an end to everything, including fodder. This situation seems to be much like Korea as described to me by the mean old mofo Master Sargeant who ran the ROTC program in my HS. The dumbass Chinese came in waves, every day for almost a month - same narrow valley, same massed charges. They were cut down as fast as they came - and as the melting machine gun barrels could be changed... and every night, the bulldozers pushed the bodies out of the way in preparation for the dawn's resumption. He said he didn't think it would ever end, but it did. He swore more than 20,000 Chinese soldiers were killed in that month - in that one valley. Then they came no more. He painted a hell of a picture for me - punctuated with hardcore reality when he popped out his glass eye for effect, and baby that had one hell of an effect on a 16 yr old ROTC student - one that's obviously stuck with me. Flypaper. Stupidity. Easy for me to say, but such is the mentality of an enemy with no sense and no plan and no purpose. May they continue to die in great numbers and to no purpose like the fucking morons and tools they are. Rinse. Repeat. Till they come no more. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-11-14 3:27:08 AM |
| #2 Well if there are hundreds of bodies in the streets then there's a decent chance that the military is actually downplaying the number of terrorists killed. |
| Posted by: Damn_Proud_American 2004-11-14 1:35:48 AM |
| #1 have been driven away in Mercedes cars to rejoin the battle elsewhere in Iraq Imagine OUR surprise! We only stopped Acuras and Lexus's....damn |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-11-14 1:09:28 AM |