Battle for Fallujah; Ramadi, Musul Bagdad intense fighting against US

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US troops facing stiff resistance in Fallujah

 

REUTERS[ TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 09, 2004 02:01:20 PM ]

 

FALLUJA: A US tank company commander in Iraq said on Tuesday that guerrillas were putting up a strong fight in the Jolan district of northwest Fallujah, which is a rebel stronghold.

 

"These people are hardcore. They are putting up a strong fight and I saw many of them on the street I was on," Capt Robert Bodisch told Reuters.

 

"A man pulled out from behind a wall and fired an RPG at my tank. I have get another tank to go back in their," he said without giving details.

[General Duke]

America failing test of history as offensive compared to terror tactics of pariah states

By Charles Glass in Sulaymaniyah

09 November 2004

 

 

Muslim fundamentalist insurgents seeking to topple the government are holed up in a conservative city with little sympathy for secularism or pluralism. They raise the banner of Islam, and they call on the rest of the country to rise up and expel the oppressors. The government reacts by massing forces around the city. It demanded that the militants surrender or the city give them up. If not, the city would be destroyed. Fallujah this week? Yes, but it was also the Syrian city of Hama in the spring of 1982.

 

The fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood seized Hama as the first step towards its goal of a national uprising against the secular Baathist regime. The Syrian President demanded their surrender. His army shelled the city, and special forces went in to kill or capture the militants. The Syrians employed the same strategy that the US is using now. Its tanks and artillery waited outside the city; they fired on militants and civilians alike. Its elite units, like the American Marines surrounding Falljuah today, braced themselves for a bloody battle.

 

The US condemned Syria for the assault that is believed to have cost 10,000 civilian lives. The Syrian army destroyed the historic centre of Hama, and it rounded up Muslim rebels for imprisonment or execution. Syria's actions against Hama came to form part of the American case that Syria was a terrorist state. Partly because of Hama, Syria is on a list of countries in the Middle East whose regimes the US wants to change.

 

Iraq's American-appointed Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, declared a state of emergency on Sunday to assume powers reminiscent of those wielded by Saddam Hussein: to break up public gatherings, enter private houses without warrants and detain people without trial. Perhaps in waging war against the Iraqis who want to expel the Americans and topple America's chosen Iraqi leaders, the insurgents have compelled the US and its Iraqi allied regime to behave like the two Baathist regimes that they believed were so totalitarian they had to go.

 

Other Iraqi cities must now fear the use of what The New York Times correspondent Tom Friedman called "Hama rules" against them. Unrest in the northern city of Mosul, where relations between its Kurdish and Arab residents have deteriorated to the point where Arabs on the west bank of the Tigris and Kurds to the west rarely cross the bridges to each other's neighbourhoods. Already, because the autonomous Kurds of northern Iraq are the only ethnic group allied to the US in Iraq, Arabs have begun killing Kurds. And Kurds are seeking refuge in the Kurdish-controlled northern region.

 

Mosul was the social base [of the Baath], said the deputy leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Noshirwan Ali Moustafa, in Suleimania. "There were 24,000 military officers from Mosul. The city is very poor. People went into the army and government service."

 

With the army disbanded and most of the civil service unemployed, thousands of young men in Mosul have no work. The insurgents have made strong appeals to them to change their conditions by expelling the Americans. Religious appeals have turned against the Kurds.

 

Residents report that graffiti in Mosul has appeared saying: "Kill a Jew. Kill a Kurd."

 

Insurgent forces in Falluja are connected to those already in Mosul, the interior minister of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's government in the Kurdish region, Karim Sinjari. Sinjari, said. Abu Musab Zarqawi's representative in Mosul, a man he called Abu Talha, was actively promoting attacks on US forces there, he said.

 

"They [islamic militants] exist in Fallujah, Baghdad and especially Mosul. Right now, a majority of the Kurdish Ansar al-Islam people are in Mosul. From Mosul, they want to carry out operations in Dohuk and Arbil. They have carried out two operations against this ministry." Mr Sinjari referred to two suicide bombings aimed at himself in the past year.

 

The Iraqi forces with the Americans outside Falluja include Kurds, but the Kurdish leadership has been careful to avoid sending Kurdish units into battle against Arabs. They fear a backlash against the estimated two million Kurds who live in Arab areas such as Baghdad, Mosul and Samarra.

 

William Polk, who served President John Kennedy in the state department, wrote recently: "Most Iraqis regard the government as an American puppet. The idea that America can fashion a local militia to accomplish what its powerful army cannot do is not policy but fantasy."

[General Duke]

Thirteen US soldiers killed in Iraq

 

 

Tuesday 09 November 2004, 23:26 Makka Time, 20:26 GMT

 

 

US forces withdrew from Ramadi after fierce fighting

 

 

 

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Ten US soldiers have been killed in Falluja with three other US military personnel killed in other parts of Iraq, according to the US military.

About a dozen US troops have been killed so far in the offensive against the Iraqi city of Falluja, US Lieutenant General Thomas Metz said on Tuesday without giving a precise toll.

 

According to Pentagon figures, some 10 soldiers were also wounded in and around Falluja.

 

"Friendly casualties are light," Metz said in a video teleconference briefing from Iraq.

 

The US military reported that two Iraqi soldiers of the interim army had been killed in the attacks on Falluja.

 

"Enemy casualties, I think, are significantly higher than I expected," Metz added, but declined to provide a number.

 

Mosul, Baghdad fighting

 

Three US military personnel were also reported killed in Mosul and Baghdad on Tuesday.

 

 

Fighting has increased in and

around the northern city of Mosul

 

"One Task Force Olympia soldier was killed and a second service member later died of wounds following a mortar attack on a Multi-National Base in Mosul at approximately 10:00am (0700 GMT) today," a statement said.

 

"A civilian contractor also wounded in the attack was evacuated to the military hospital in Baghdad," the statement added.

 

Another US soldier succumbed to his wounds sustained during a firefight with Iraqi fighters in Baghdad, AP reported.

 

A total of 14 Americans have been killed in the past two days across Iraq - including five in and around Falluja.

 

The latest US deaths brings to 1140 the number of US troops killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March 2003, according to Pentagon figures.

 

 

Ramadi fighting

 

 

In a separate development, anti-US fighters took control of the centre of the Iraqi city of Ramadi after 24 hours of clashes with US forces, an AFP correspondent has said.

 

The US military could not immediately be contacted for comment.

 

 

Five US troops were wounded in

clashes in Ramadi

 

US forces withdrew Tuesday around 2:00pm (1100 GMT) from Ramadi's main streets to their bases east and west of the city, the correspondent said.

 

Earlier, five US troops were wounded in Ramadi when marines shot at and destroyed two suspected cars killing seven fighters, the US military said Tuesday.

 

The attack occured in the city on Monday, located 113km west of Baghdad, where US troops have clashed with fighters for weeks, the military said. No other details were available.

 

Ramadi, and Falluja to the east, is a centre of anti-US fighters waging a 17-month campaign against US-backed interim authorities in Iraq.

[Paragon]

[Salafi_Online]

May Allah destroy the kufar, the lowest of mankind, May Allah make the muslims shoohada then after that May Allah revive them in order to preform jihad again fee sabilillah!!!

 

it is a must upon every muslim who has iman to suplicate for the destruction of the kufr in Iraq and all the other kufur who have waged a war upon the muslim and their lands! please remember our brothers in your salah!

[raula]

walaahi wat pisses me more is that..that ***** called ALLAWI :mad: :mad: gave the GREEN LIGHT-To drop more bombs and artillery to the already tattered, famished, muslims in this last days of Ramadan..what religion does he belief in :confused: -subxanallah! May Allah give the fallujans strength and courage and may he reward the dead to Janatul Firdows-Amin(and to us).

[SJ]

:mad:

 

 

Ruala, can u imagine a five star general taking orders from Allawi??? I cant.

[Bakar]

I think he is another self-glorified dhag cas, who doesn’t give rats *** about atrocity of Iraqis and Muslims in general. The likes of him are the ones spearheading most of the Islamic states. He is another symbolic leader; thus he knows Bush will replace him in heart beat if he denounces the killings….. A. Shalabi, for exapmle, was once an American puppet, and discarded when they finally realized he was no longer use for their politcal objective. Alaawi is aware, i think, devious nature inherited in US foreing policy, thus he care his immediate interest whatever that may be rather than the betterment of the iraqis.

[Rahima]

Worry not brothers and sisters.

 

Victory is to the Muslims.

 

The dead are inshallah in jannah and eventual victory is to Islam. This is the promise of the Almighty.