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Iraq
Fallujah doctors: Iraqi airstrikes kill 11 more, including women and children
2015-07-18
From the War Is Hell file, item number 70,411:
[Rudaw] Another 11 people -- including women and kiddies -- have been killed by random Iraqi Arclight airstrikes in the city of Fallujah,
... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperity or a really nice place to raise your kids...
 said a top health official of the key city that Baghdad is fighting to retake from the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group (ISIS, or Daesh in Arabic).

"The random Arclight airstrikes carried out by the Iraqi air force against Daesh in the center of the city and the Heyaskari neighborhood west of Fallujah have killed 11 civilians, including women and kiddies," Ahmad Shami, head doctor at the main Fallujah Hospital, said Thursday.
He runs his department at the behest of ISIS, it must be remembered.
ISIS has been in control of Fallujah since January last year. This week Iraq's hobbling army -- in cooperation with tribal militias -- launched an assault to retake the city.

Physicians in the city say that months of air and artillery bombings by Iraqi forces have killed some 71 residents and maimed about 90 others -- excluding the latest casualties.
Are they collecting the bodies in a freezer for maximum impact when displayed in their myriads, as Saddam Hussein used to do?
According to Shami, the maimed suffer grave injuries and the city is short of medicines, doctors and nurses.
Besieged is, I believe, the proper term.
He has accused the Iraqi government, as well as local and international health and humanitarian organizations, of ignoring what is happening in Fallujah.
None of which would be happening, of course, had ISIS not conquered the place with its usual viciousness.
The Iraqi government released a statement last week denying its Arclight airstrikes have ever targeted civilians inside Fallujah in the war against ISIS.
Accidents do happen, of course. Especially in war.
According to reports received by Rudaw from the frontlines, the Iraqi forces have made little progress in efforts to retake the Sunni-majority city, roughly 69 kilometers west of Baghdad on the Euphrates River.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  None of the above. Let the various bastards fight it out until one side is is bleed white. If any one one of em shows danger to the U.S. , nuke the fuck out of them.
Posted by: Shipman   2015-07-18 18:16  

#4  Bonus is a lot of nice 500m wide patrol roads. Or free-fire zones if you want to do it that way.
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-07-18 15:50  

#3  I still say the proper solution is line up howitzers hub to hub in a line 500m across, and walk the fire in straight line followed 1km behind by D9's clearing the ground. Bisect the city N/S then E/W. Then do the same in each quadrant. Give you a giant cleared grid. any of the grid sqares falls to isis, it gets mined completely around, and reduced by artillery. Eventually the city is either pacified, or erased. Either way, no great loss of anything of value.
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-07-18 15:48  

#2  The US and others have wasted enough lives on Fallujah.
Rubble manufacturing
Bounce Rubble
Salt to taste
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2015-07-18 14:02  

#1  They ought to be used to it in Fallujah by now
Posted by: Frank G   2015-07-18 13:12  

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