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2004-04-01 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Steve White 2004-04-01 2:02:18 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Killed while delivering food. Hmmm...

Posted by Ben 2004-04-01 3:44:22 AM|| 2004-04-01 3:44:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 [Troll droppings deleted]

Posted by Murray TROLL 2004-04-01 7:47:37 AM|| 2004-04-01 7:47:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 May they rest in peace. Time to bring the wood to Falujah. Fred, troll whacking needed on #2 here.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-04-01 7:48:36 AM|| 2004-04-01 7:48:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 My (somewhat inflammatory) question about this whole episode is "Where were the Marines?".

Admittedly these guys were probably beyond help within seconds, but to allow their bodies to be handled in this way was a disgrace. It's bad enough that we adopted this "hands off" policy towards that town (encouraging the thugs), but I thought that was just an Army thing -- and that the shift in responsibility to the Marines would mean some changes for the better -- and I had hoped the sweep through the city (and ensuing firefight) in F-town last week, even though we had some KIA, was a step in the right direction.

Apparently not...

Posted by snellenr 2004-04-01 9:48:10 AM|| 2004-04-01 9:48:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 give it time snellenr. We were not there, hard to second guess the commander on the scene. Matter of time, that place will get pacified or be incapacitated.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-04-01 12:13:36 PM|| 2004-04-01 12:13:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I think Bremer should issue a press release announcing that, since the four American civilians killed were protecting food shipmaents to Fallujah, there will be no further CPA food shipments to Fallujah as there are no more security guards.

Posted by Tibor 2004-04-01 12:21:59 PM|| 2004-04-01 12:21:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Hope so, JH -- but Fallujah's been a pebble in our shoe for nearly a year, and it just seems as though we're going to pussyfoot some more. 38 of the U.S. KIA since the "end" of the war have occurred in the Fallujah area (third place after Baghdad (101) and Mosul (44). [source: Iraq Coalition Casualty Count]

Posted by snellenr 2004-04-01 1:09:38 PM|| 2004-04-01 1:09:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Quote from Blackwater's home page:

A Memorial Fund has been established to support the victim's families of the March 31, 2004 Fallujah attack. All memorial gifts will be documented and appropriately acknowledged with due regard to the wishes of the donor and the nature of the contribution. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims

Please Mail the contributions to:
Memorial Fund
PO Box 159
Moyock, NC 27958

Please Make checks Payable to:
Memorial Fund

Please no cash contributions.

Posted by Puddle Pirate 2004-04-01 5:17:08 PM|| [http://blackwatersecurity.com/] 2004-04-01 5:17:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Our prayers go out to the family and friends of these four fine people. The perpetrators shall be cursed until the last star ceases to shine in the night sky. May their souls be forever damned, and never find peace.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-04-01 6:01:06 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-04-01 6:01:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Let's see. Continuing to daydream about appropriate responses, let's try this one:

First, erect a triple concertina fence around the city, with just one entrance and exit. At that opening, put up a big billboard, in Farsi, announcing that Blackwater Security has now been placed in charge of security and team-building training in Fallujah. Give Blackwater 10,000 Kurdish volunteers, to help with security.

Now, start the teambuilding training. For the able-bodied men of Fallujah, this consists of digging deep rectangular holes, about two meters long, by one meter wide, by 2 meters deep. Each man digs two such holes, arranged in neat rows in an open space near the town.

Meanwhile, the young boys and old men are assigned to build about 1,000 sets of wooden gallows, complete with rope nooses, spread throughout the city. The women are split into two groups - one group builds coffins, the other group carves headstones.

All under Blackwater supervision, assisted by Kurdish augmentation.

Idle hands are the devil's playground. Keep all the good people of Fallujah thoughtfully busy with productive work. Let Blackwater (and the Kurds) work on their grief management skills.

My bet is that Fallujah would soon become a much more peaceful place - one way or the other.

Daydreaming ..........

Posted by Lone Ranger 2004-04-01 8:25:56 PM|| 2004-04-01 8:25:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Lost in the hubbub is this - what were a few lightly-armed civilian guards doing alone in a single humvee? Why weren't they travelling in convoys? I suspect they had been doing these jaunts for a while before this attack taught their eventual successors that this is not something you should do in Fallujah. This is the hardest way to learn this kind of lesson, but I suspect we won't see this kind of attack again - a convoy system will be put in place after this - without exception.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-04-01 8:33:17 PM|| 2004-04-01 8:33:17 PM|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Jackson TROLL 2004-04-01 7:47:37 AM|| 2004-04-01 7:47:37 AM|| Front Page Top

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