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Originally posted by Damned
I'm not saying this isn't true, but I can't find any American press reporting this. Can you?
Originally posted by Muaddib
1. Iraqi troops have found "slaughterhouses" in Fallujah, where civilian and military foreign hostages were kept....
2. our troops have found the body of a western woman with her throath slit and her limbs cut off....one of the many hostages that were kept in "Fallujah"..... the people in Fallujah are not as innocent as you are making them....that first...
And you are saying that you are not anti-US?.....pleaaase.....
[edit on 14-11-2004 by Muaddib]
Originally posted by Muaddib
1. Iraqi troops have found "slaughterhouses" in Fallujah, where civilian and military foreign hostages were kept....
2. our troops have found the body of a western woman with her throath slit and her limbs cut off....one of the many hostages that were kept in "Fallujah".....
[edit on 14-11-2004 by Muaddib]
Originally posted by Muaddib
the people in Fallujah are not as innocent as you are making them....
[edit on 14-11-2004 by Muaddib]
Originally posted by Muaddib
oh and if i can remember, Baghdag Bob was also claiming on the IRaqi radio and tv that "no US troops were inside Baghdag" while our tanks and coalition soldiers where rolling behind his back..... That's what you call a reliable news source?........
[edit on 14-11-2004 by Muaddib]
Resistance wipes out US column cut off on al-Hadrah Street in al-Fallujah.
In a dispatch posted at 12:30am Sunday morning local time, 11:30pm Saturday night Mecca time the al-Fallujah correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the Resistance in al-Fallujah had completely wiped out the US column that had been encircled on al-Hadrah Street near the al-Hadrah Mosque in the city for three days.
US forces had tried to break through to the isolated US column on several occasions but all in vain. They even attempted peaceful means, proposing through loudspeakers a cease fire to the Resistance fighters earlier on Saturday. The Resistance, however, rejected the American appeal and continued encircling and striking the isolated US column until it was totally wiped out.
US loosens its grip on al-Fallujah after making cease-fire appeal to the Resistance.
Many al-Fallujah families on Saturday were able to leave the city by the al-Azraqiyah crossing, which the US troops had opened up in an apparent attempt to show �good will� towards the residents of the city after the US appealed for a cease fire and negotiations.
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that those leaving the city showed clear signs of the effects of days without food, water, or electricity, under savage US bombing. Their clothes were frequently tattered after they had been pulled from the ruins of their homes. Children wailed loudly from thirst and hunger.
US pleas for cease-fire, negotiations with Resistance in al-Fallujah.
In a dispatch posted Saturday at 7:14pm local time, 6:14pm Mecca time, the al-Fallujah correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam reported that in a repeat of the scenario played out in April this year, the US forces have called for a cease fire in al-Fallujah. American troops made their call using loudspeakers, requesting in addition, that talks be opened with the Iraqi Resistance. In a face-saving gesture, the US-installed puppet government of Iyyad �Allawi announced that it was now seeking a �peaceful solution� in al-Fallujah to �save lives,� having already approved the massive cluster bombing of the city.
The heavy casualties inflicted on the US forces are the main reason for the American appeal � casualties largely unreported in the US media. The American column that has been surrounded by the Resistance and cut off inside the city for three days also no doubt played a role in pushing the US to this conclusion, after American war vehicles failed to break the encirclement around the beleaguered Americans.
An idea of the scale of US losses can be gleaned from the fact that the burned out wrecks of 40 US tanks can be seen on al-Jumhuriyah Street alone, after a major turning point was reached in the fighting on Friday. On Friday Iraqi Resistance forces destroyed 25 American tanks. US troops had been parking tanks in a former ice factory but it was mined and blown up by the Resistance � prompting some media to report that some kind of huge bomb had been dropped.
Days after the start of the first assault on al-Fallujah last April Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US troops had made an appeal for a cease-fire and negotiations. That report was initially discounted around the world as �preposterous� but later proved to be correct. The same scenario is apparently now repeating itself.
Al-Fallujah.
Resistance issues communiqu� on US losses in al-Fallujah. Discrepancies with Abu Sa�d interview noted.
In a dispatch posted at 7:03pm Mecca time, the office of Mafkarat al-Islam in al-Fallujah reported that it had received a short while before a communiqu� issued by the Consultative Council of the Mujahideen of al-Fallujah which discussed the number of American, British, and puppet �Allawi Army dead, wounded, and captured.
The communiqu� stated that in the operations of the last few days, the Iraqi Resistance had shot down two F-16 fighter bombers, 11 helicopters, 5 unmanned spy planes, and one Chinook helicopter with some 60 US troops aboard.
The communiqu� said that 136 US troops, 15 British soldiers, and 123 members of the �Allawi Army (i.e., puppet so-called �Iraqi national guardsmen�) had been captured by the Resistance. About 400 American troops and 140 �Allawi troops have been killed, the statement reported.
The communiqu� confirmed that the Iraqi Resistance had commandeered seven tanks and had destroyed a large number of other tanks, armored personnel carriers and other armored vehicles.
Mafkarat al-Islam noted that the figures cited in the communiqu� differed from those cited in a telephone conversation to al-Jazeera satellite TV by the Abu Sa�d ad-Daylami, the official spokesman of the Consultative Council of the Mujahideen of al-Fallujah on Saturday (see this report, below) in which he also mentioned that US forces had taken the major streets in al-Fallujah. Informed sources explained the discrepancies by observing that it was obviously much easier for the different Resistance organizations to coordinate their fighting activity than it was for them to coordinate their information gathering techniques and reporting.
The sources did express surprise at the relatively low numbers attributed by al-Jazeera to ad-Daylami, considering that there were reports from many sources that confirmed that 30 tanks and 12 other vehicles had been destroyed by the Resistance and that the Resistance had blown up the ice factory where the Americans had parked a large number of their military vehicles and where dozens of US troops were killed or wounded.
The Resistance sources repeated that the main streets of al-Fallujah � like ar-Ramadi Street, ath-Tharthar Street, al-Hadrah Street, and al-Jumhuriyah Street had been cleared of US troops, but that fighting was still underway on al-Wahdah Street and in the al-Jawlan neighborhood.
Spokesman for al-Fallujah Resistance denies US claims.
Abu Sa�d ad-Dulaymi, the official spokesman of the Consultative Council of the Mujahideen of al-Fallujah, announced that the military situation of American forces in al-Fallujah had not changed for three days. He made the remarks in reply to US claims to have completely seized control over al-Fallujah.
Speaking by telephone to al-Jazeera satellite TV Abu Sa�d said that the occupation troops have not been able until now to get near the al-Jawlan neighborhood; all they control are the main streets in al-Fallujah, backing up their presence with fierce air strikes.
Abu Sa�d ad-Dulaymi said that when the Americans refer to �pockets of resistance� they mean the whole neighborhoods of al-�Askari, ash-Shuhada�, al-Jaghifi, al-Wahdah, al-Jumhuriyah and the industrial zone � if they mean all these areas when they talk about �pockets of resistance,� then I tell you these �pockets� are al-Fallujah; these neighborhoods don�t exist outside of al-Fallujah.
The US forces are in a big public relations bind, Abu Sa�d said, since they�ve declared an end to military operations at a time when US forces are facing the Resistance on the inside and are surrounded on the outside of the city, being hit by rockets and mortars. In fact the proof that they are in a bind is the very fact that they have announced the end of the military operation.
Abu Sa�d denied claims that 1,000 Resistance fighters had been killed. He confirmed that 100 Resistance fighters had been killed. The remainder of the casualties are civilians He also said that the Chairman of the Consultative Council of the Mujahideen of al-Fallujah, �Abdallah al-Janabi, still leads the Resistance from within the city.
Originally posted by twitchy
Fred coolhand, in case you hadn't noticed zcheng has posted his sources over and over and over again for 15 or so pages now,
Originally posted by twitchy
Fred coolhand, in case you hadn't noticed zcheng has posted his sources over and over and over again for 15 or so pages now, given that they all were the same source, try taking a wild guess as to the source of his latest data.
Originally posted by FredT
Unless you have actual ground truth, Please cite a source for your statistics.
Thanks
FredT