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2004-11-11 Iraq-Jordan

Mosques bombed as fighting rages in Falluja

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Posted by Fred 2004-11-11 9:23:52 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Article: An Iraqi journalist told Aljazeera that US forces on Wednesday resumed attacks on the city, targeting Julan in the north-west to al-Jughaivi in the north-east. Fadil al-Badrani said there are an estimated 120 mosques in the city. "Almost half of the city's mosques have been destroyed after being targeted by US air and tank strikes," al-Badrani added.

This guy is Fallujah's Comical Ali or Baghdad Bob. He is providing ~~comic relief~~ fiction for al-BBC, al-Reuters and al-Jazeera all at the same time.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-11-11 12:38:51 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2004-11-11 12:38:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Looks like that magical anti-weapons field around all Muslim Holy Places(tm) finally conked out.

Posted by someone 2004-11-11 2:39:54 AM|| 2004-11-11 2:39:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 fallujah , city of a 1000 mosques eeeerr *cough* ammo dumps ;)

Posted by MacNails 2004-11-11 5:39:28 AM|| 2004-11-11 5:39:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I heard that they waved a white flag, then fired on Marines. Sheesh talk about stupid. Six minutes later no more mosque.

Posted by Douglas De Bono 2004-11-11 7:20:15 AM|| [http://www.DouglasDeBono.com] 2004-11-11 7:20:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Our biggest politico-military mistake in all of this has been the "hands-off" policy of not taking on the mosques. Some one has to revist this policy and damn the torpedoes! Once the terrs go into the mosque armed or store ordance there or use it as sniper platforms it should be declared a target and used as such.

Posted by Jack is Back! 2004-11-11 9:19:22 AM|| 2004-11-11 9:19:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 But Jack, the "hands off" policy encouraged the bad guys to use the mosques as forts and ammo dumps. So now everything/everybody is nicely in one place, and our guys get to watch all those pretty secondary explosions and bouncing bodies. Do you suppose this was intentional, or simply an enjoyable by-product of a mistaken political decision?

Posted by trailing wife 2004-11-11 12:39:16 PM|| 2004-11-11 12:39:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Inadvertant, TW, inadvertant. The military intelligence crews are not that on top of things. Planning for the future only goes are far as the next prisoner in line for interrogation.

Long term thinking is a Psyops thing and they are largely ignored by the fighthing-type commanders. The guys pulling the triggers are usually pretty proccupied with making certain about the right nows, not the might be's.

Posted by Jame Retief 2004-11-11 12:48:33 PM|| 2004-11-11 12:48:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I agree with trailing wife on this. We nailed 70 guys in one mosque outbuilding. By leaving Fallujah alone we encouraged the bad guys to pile into the city and make it symbolic. By leaving mosques alone we encouraged the bad guys to pile into them and use them as mini-forts.

Now that the gloves are off they are much easier targets.

Posted by rjschwarz 2004-11-11 2:48:09 PM|| [http://politicaljunky.blogspot.com] 2004-11-11 2:48:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 TW, fred, et al are correct - a weapons storehouse and sniper nest no longer qualifies as a mosque - it is a target

Posted by Frank G 2004-11-11 2:56:57 PM|| 2004-11-11 2:56:57 PM|| Front Page Top

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