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2004-11-11 Iraq-Jordan

US forces preparing for Night of Power offensive in Fallujah

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-11-11 2:11:46 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Post-of-the-day award!

Posted by ex-lib 2004-11-11 3:18:18 PM|| 2004-11-11 3:18:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 The Christian Science Monitor (www.csmonitor.com) is one of the few MSM outlets that plays it straight, and gets it right. Superb foreign coverage, especially, and without the NYT or WaPo spin. I read it more often than I read the NYT and WaPo combined.

Posted by lex 2004-11-11 3:26:03 PM|| 2004-11-11 3:26:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Say Mr. Sleeper Cell, you want to sleep? We'll put you to sleep! With pleasure! I think the Marines are looking forward to the counter attack from these guys. If they don't attack, it seems we do not kill them and that is just what we have to do to reduce their forces and prevent a repeat of Fallukah 1.

Posted by Remoteman 2004-11-11 3:46:53 PM|| 2004-11-11 3:46:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 lex - Bro, we're still being had - and I often read CSM, too...

"But Thursday night, casualties appeared to mount."

See anything to back it up in the text that follows? See any numbers to indicate it? No - the following text describes precisely the same actions and situation our forces have faced both times they entered Fallujah - absolutely nothing new is presented, sadly. It's that old MSM loser / defeatism spin.

The Truth isn't relative. Our expectations are so incredibly low that someone who's only half full of shit looks phreakin' wonderful, lol!

The only wonderful aspect of this engagement are our troopers, IMHO.

Posted by .com 2004-11-11 3:47:26 PM|| 2004-11-11 3:47:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Night of Power? Heck, that sounds like some cheap televangelist broadcast.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-11-11 3:57:51 PM|| 2004-11-11 3:57:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Or a great computer game, RM, lol!

Posted by .com 2004-11-11 4:05:07 PM|| 2004-11-11 4:05:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Great Post!! Kicking Ass and Taking Names!!
I don't get it though, If your gonna rise up against the Iraqi government, you had best wait till the USA has left the whole damn region. What a bunch of fools!!

Posted by billster 2004-11-11 4:15:21 PM|| 2004-11-11 4:15:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh Jihadi, prepare religiously for your "Night of Power". Unable to even pleasure, let alone to sexually satisfy your women folk, you turn to terror and cowardice. Your women folk, unable to experience sexual fulfillment, they turn into suicide bombers. Your culture is weak. So much to be ashamed for: How can you even look yourselves in the mirror? Is it any wonder the jihadi flee in fear from Falujah having seen the face of the infidel? I think not.

Posted by Mark Z. 2004-11-11 5:52:07 PM|| 2004-11-11 5:52:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Loudspeakers from at least one mosque began what US Marine officers said was a "revving up" of militants by chants that resembled the "martyrâs last rites."

IMHO, that mosque has switched from place of worship to an element of the enemy's command and control system. Flatten it.

In the course of locating seven weapons caches in a single block around a mosque in northeast Fallujah, an Iraqi platoon Wednesday found a suitcase full of vials labeled "Sarin," a deadly nerve agent.

While further analysis determined that the find was probably part of a Soviet test kit with samples, its discovery in a room with mortar shells appeared to indicate an intent to weaponize the material.

Yep. Accusations of US using gas were prep for the jihadis using gas.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-11-11 6:16:44 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-11-11 6:16:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I dunno, but my BS meter just kicked in. Let's see here...further analysis (on vials found just Wednesday) determined that it was Soviet stuff? That's pretty quick work. Too much just thrown out there...I'm not ready to buy that bit as yet.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-11-11 6:31:22 PM|| 2004-11-11 6:31:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Stay safe guys, and good hunting - you're doing a terrific job!

As for 'Night of Power' - paaathetic! sounds like some college 'battle of the bands' event. Where the volume only goes up to 6. Wankers.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2004-11-11 6:31:45 PM|| 2004-11-11 6:31:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 "some college 'battle of the bands' event..."

Or one of those cheap drugstore colognes that gets advertised between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Posted by Old Grouch 2004-11-11 8:29:26 PM|| 2004-11-11 8:29:26 PM|| Front Page Top

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