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U.S. Jets Strike Fallujah
Monday, September 13, 2004
Fox
FALLUJAH, Iraq U.S. warplanes partnered with artillery units Monday to pound
what the military claimed was a rebel stronghold in the Sunni insurgent center
of Fallujah. At least 16 people were killed and another dozen injured in the
precision strike.
U.S. forces targeted a building where suspected members of Al Qaeda and forces
loyal to Jordanian-born terror suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (search) were
meeting. Witnesses told The Associated Press that the strikes hit at least three
different neighborhoods.
Military officials had no information on whether the people killed were the Al
Qaeda operatives. The strike came a day after a surge in violence killed 78
people across Iraq.
Witnesses said the bombing targeted the city's residential al-Shurta
neighborhood, damaging buildings and raising clouds of black smoke.
Dr. Adel Khamis of the Fallujah General Hospital said at least 16 people were
killed, including women and children, and 12 others wounded. An ambulance
rushing from the area of the blasts was hit by a shell, killing the driver, a
paramedic and five patients inside the vehicle, said another hospital official,
Hamid Salaman.
"The conditions here are miserable an ambulance was bombed, three houses
destroyed and men and women killed," the hospital's director, Rafayi Hayad
al-Esawi, told pan-Arab Al-Jazeera television by telephone. "The American army
has no morals."
Witnesses said U.S. warplanes repeatedly swooped low over the city and that
artillery units deployed on the outskirts of the city also opened fire. The
explosions started at sunrise and continued for several hours.
One explosion went off in a marketplace in Fallujah as the first vendors began
to set up their stalls, wounding several people and shattering windows,
witnesses said.
U.S. forces pulled out of Fallujah in April after a three-week siege that left
hundreds dead and a trail of devastation. The U.S. Marines have not patrolled
inside Fallujah since then and Sunni insurgents have strengthened their hold on
the city.
West of Baghdad, assailants broke into a local police station in Latifiyah and
forced the handful of officers inside to leave before blowing up the building,
police said Monday.
Nobody was injured in the Sunday night blast, said police Lt. Col. Sahi
Abdullah. Iraqi police have regularly been attacked by insurgents who view them
as collaborators with American troops.
Also Sunday, insurgents hammered central Baghdad with intense mortar and rocket
barrages, heralding a day of violence that killed 78 people nationwide as
security appeared to spiral out of control.
At least 37 people were killed in Baghdad alone. Many of them died when a U.S.
helicopter fired on a disabled U.S. Bradley fighting vehicle as Iraqis swarmed
around it, cheering, throwing stones and waving the black and yellow sunburst
banner of Iraq's most-feared terror organization.
The dead from the helicopter strike included Arab television reporter Mazen
al-Tumeizi. An Iraqi cameraman working for the Reuters news agency and an Iraqi
freelance photographer for Getty Images were wounded.
The Health Ministry reported Monday that 78 people were killed in violence
across the country Sunday, an increase it said was due to new reports of deaths
overnight.
Some 200 people were wounded, more than half of them in Baghdad.
In a visit to the southern city of Basra, interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi
(search) vowed to pursue insurgents.
"We are adamant that we are going to defeat terrorism," Allawi said. "We intend
to confront them and bring them to justice."
Secretary of State Colin Powell acknowledged that the U.S.-led coalition faced a
"difficult time" in Iraq but said the United States had a plan to quash the
insurgency and bring those areas under control in time for national elections in
January.
The insurgency "will be brought under control," Powell said on NBC's "Meet The
Press." "It's not an impossible task."
Elsewhere, the governor of the northern Kurdish province of Dahuk escaped an
assassination attempt when a roadside bomb went off as his car was passing by,
police said. There were no injuries.
Gov Netshevan Ahmad was on his way to work in Dahuk when the device exploded,
said police Col. Mohammed Doski. Nobody was injured in the attack.
It was the first such attack in the largely peaceful city of Dahuk and
surrounding province that bears the same name since the U.S. invasion in Iraq
began in March last year.
On the Iraqi political front, a government official announced Monday that
Minister of State Qassim Dawoud has been designated as an adviser to the prime
minister for national security, a government official said Monday.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Cabinet shifted
Dawoud's responsibility from minister of state for military affairs to minister
of state for national security and an adviser to Allawi.
The move is likely to encroach on the political turf of Iraq's national security
adviser, Mouwaffaq al-Rubaie, and Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh, whose
responsibilities also include national security affairs. It was unclear how the
three would coordinate their jobs.
Dawoud went on television last week to announce the capture of ousted dictator
Saddam Hussein's deputy, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri (search), only to see the claim
proved untrue.
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U.S. Jets Strike Fallujah
When those cowardly "rebels" quit hiding behind schools and temples, this
won't happen.
In the mean time - TOUGH SHIT.
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Hk Hhmt ! wrote:
When those cowardly "rebels" quit hiding behind schools and
temples, this won't happen.
And if the U$$A would quit hiding behind it's superior military
technology, then things like 9/11 wouldn't happen.
Saddam offered to personally duel GaWolBu$h, may the best
man win. The Coward Bu$h decided to hide behing the pathetic
lives of 1000+ U$ soldiers now slaughtered for naught.
In the mean time - TOUGH SHIT.
For all the 1000+ dead U$ troops ---? Yep.
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In article <WZE1d.155$V54.3165@news.uswest.net>, "S. O. Damocles" <so@damocl.es> wrote:
Hk Hhmt ! wrote:
And if the U$$A would quit hiding behind it's superior military
technology, then things like 9/11 wouldn't happen.
Why would the USA stop using its "superior military technology"? I can't
believe anyone could be so stupid to even say that, until you came along. If
you have it, you use it. It is just like dentistry......oh wait, that is
another superior technology that the islamofascists don't have.
Saddam offered to personally duel GaWolBu$h, may the best
man win. The Coward Bu$h decided to hide behing the pathetic
lives of 1000+ U$ soldiers now slaughtered for naught.
Sodumb Hussein, always the warmonger, always the first to want to use guns.
Bush offered Sodumb a solution to the problem. Get out of Iraq and take your
bastard sons with you, and let the UN inspectors in. Sodumb refused. So long
Sodumb.
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Hk Hhmt ! wrote:
And if the U$$A would quit hiding behind it's superior military
technology, then things like 9/11 wouldn't happen.
Saddam offered to personally duel GaWolBu$h, may the best
man win. The Coward Bu$h decided to hide behing the pathetic
lives of 1000+ U$ soldiers now slaughtered for naught.
Even YOU can't be THAT @$#*ed up!
Ya, right, Every time you saw that murdering tyrant Saddam, he was firing a
gun in the air.
WOW - HOW MACHO!!! (He didn't look that macho when he crawled out of that
'spider hole', huh?
Couldn't we just visualize the President Of The United State standing on a
balcony of the White House, firing a gun in the air?!!!!
Punk, you are one ignorant little asshole. (You HAVE to be a little kid with
no 'street time'!)
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Hk Hhmt ! wrote:
Even YOU can't be THAT @$#*ed up!
Translation: You dodged the issue again.
Ya, right, Every time you saw that murdering tyrant Saddam,
he was firing a gun in the air.
WOW - HOW MACHO!!! (He didn't look that macho when he
crawled out of that 'spider hole', huh?
Funny, G aWol Bu$h ran and hid in Alabama from the Champagne
Unit of the National Guard, and he was 9000 miles from the
nearest enemy fire!
Couldn't we just visualize the President Of The United
State standing on a balcony of the White House, firing a
gun in the air?!!!!
No, we couldn't visualize the Coward G aWol Bu$h firing any
gun where he might actually get hurt.
Punk, you are one ignorant little asshole. (You HAVE to be
a little kid with no 'street time'!)
Ooooh, lookie here. The armchair whitetrash chickenhawk fantasizes
about being a gangsta rappa.
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shogun wrote:
In article <WZE1d.155$V54.3165@news.uswest.net>, "S. O.
Damocles" <so@damocl.es> wrote:
Why would the USA stop using its "superior military
technology"? I can't believe anyone could be so stupid to even say that, until
you came along. If you have it, you use it.
Yep. And if all you got are dynamite, ANFO, some C4 and a few stolen
vehicles, then that's what you use, right?
You ain't the sharpest tool in the shed, are ya boy?
Sodumb Hussein, always the warmonger, always the first to
want to use guns.
Bush offered Sodumb a solution to the problem.
Saddam offered the cowardly criminal Bu$h a solution, Bu$h
being a chicke#@($, sent 1000+ young and dumb U$ soldiers to
their deaths instead.
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In article <fBP1d.88$l_4.83011@news.uswest.net>, "S. O. Damocles" <so@damocl.es> wrote:
shogun wrote:
until
Yep. And if all you got are dynamite, ANFO, some C4 and a few stolen
vehicles, then that's what you use, right?
You ain't the sharpest tool in the shed, are ya boy?
No, I'm not. But I am sharper than you, and that is all that counts.
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