Saturday: 6 US Marines Dead in Syrian/Iraq Border Clashes
black_ice
from corrente
More proof that we're winning:
Six Marines were killed and scores of insurgent Iraqis slain in a
fierce 14-hour battle Saturday between Marines and mujahedeen fighters
who slipped into this town near the Syrian border.
(via Kansas City Star)
Thanks to alert reader Northsylvania.
# posted by Lambert : 7:01 PM | Comment (0)
see http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/8456408.htm?1c
6 Marines, scores of Iraqis killed in fierce battle
BY RON HARRIS
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
HUSAYBAH, Iraq - (KRT) - Six Marines were killed and scores of
insurgent Iraqis slain in a fierce 14-hour battle Saturday between
Marines and mujahedeen fighters who slipped into this town near the
Syrian border.
According to Marines, an estimated 300 Iraqis from Fallujah and Ramadi
launched an assault against the Americans in Husaybah around 8 a.m.
local time, beginning with a roadside bombing and a flurry of 24
mortars.
When Marines responded to the bombing, they were met with small-arms
and machine-gun fire as they neared a former Baath Party headquarters.
Marines responding to the call for help were mortared and strafed as
they made their way into the city. Additional Marines then joined in
the fight.
Fighting continued late into the night as Marine Cobra helicopter
gunships strafed enemy positions near a downtown soccer stadium and
Marine helicopters continued to take wounded to their main base 22
miles away at Camp Al-Qaim.
At least nine Marines were injured and about 20 Iraqis captured,
Marines said. The detainees were taken to Camp Al-Qaim late Saturday
night for questioning.
All of the Marines were killed in the first hour of the fighting, four
of them when they went to clear out a house where Iraqi fighters were
hiding.
The battalion commander, Col. Matthew Lopez, said he believed the
Marines had crushed the insurgents' attack.
"I don't think they expected us to retaliate as hard as we did," said
Lopez, 40, of Chicago, commander of the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines.
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JJ
3000 Americans dead and several buildings knocked down and planes crashed
Robin
"JJ" <plan...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:NZkgc.26045$Yw5....@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
> 9/11
> 3000 Americans dead and several buildings knocked down and
planes crashed
>
Yet we waste time in Iraq, rather than concentrating on
catching those responsible for that awful deed. How hard
can it REALLY be to get an old man that needs daily kidney
dialysis, hat is trapped in the mountains of Afghanistan and
Pakistan. If Bush spent 1/10th of the energy he has spent
nation building/demolishing in Iraq on catching those
responsible for 9/11 we'd have had them by 9/11/02.
Gogarty
plan...@bellsouth.net says...
>
>
>9/11
>3000 Americans dead and several buildings knocked down and planes crashed
>
Shirley Moobaas
"Robin" <robina...@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:2Olgc.16440$0b4.23785@attbi_s51...
> Yet we waste time in Iraq, rather than concentrating on
> catching those responsible for that awful deed. How hard
> can it REALLY be to get an old man that needs daily kidney
> dialysis, hat is trapped in the mountains of Afghanistan and
> Pakistan. If Bush spent 1/10th of the energy he has spent
> nation building/demolishing in Iraq on catching those
> responsible for 9/11 we'd have had them by 9/11/02.
Do you really think that Bush gives a flying shit
about what happened in NYC? On the outside
he does, sure, but inside he's more concerned with
the estimated 5 TRILLION barrels of crude oil
reserves that lie beneath the sands of Northern Iraq.
Ever wonder why so much islamic insurrection is going on
in Central and Southern Iraq, yet none is going on
up North around Kiruk where there are 5 times the
number of troops to guard the oil pipelines and wells
where Halliburton is busy at work? Follow the Money
and you'll find the GOP....every fuck-ng time.
black_ice
<plan...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 9/11
> 3000 Americans dead and several buildings knocked down and planes crashed
>
HOW MANY IRAQIS WERE INVOLVED?
--
Shel Scott
>Yet we waste time in Iraq, rather than concentrating on
>catching those responsible for that awful deed.
>
intended to lift their sanctions. This would have put money into
Hussein's hands and, soon after, WMD into the hands of various
terrorist groups. Hans Blix works for the same organization (the U.
N.) that was profitting, along with countries like France, Germany,
and Russia, from the "Oil for Food" program.
That is why he allowed Hussein to flip the weapons inspection program
backwards. Most such programs put the onus on the offender to PROVE
there are NO violations taking place; Blix had the inspectors having
to prove that there WERE violations taking place. Failure to find WMD
was a given, especially since the Iraqis were not at all cooperative.
These "Oil for Food" conspirators fully intended to increase their
take with the revenue that would flow from a lifting of sanctions.
These greedy liars thought they would be safe from terrorist attacks
on their own countries.
>How hard
>can it REALLY be to get an old man that needs daily kidney
>dialysis, hat is trapped in the mountains of Afghanistan and
>Pakistan.
>
Robin, here, has apparently missed the assertion by her fellow
travellers that "there isn't any evidence PROVING bin Laden was behind
9/11/01". Nor has she caught the assertion by those same fellow
travellers that "if bin Laden is captured he will be replaced within a
few days". She goes ahead and criticizes the U. S. for not captiuring
him yet. Both takes can't be right.
IOW, Robin is full of wind.
>If Bush spent 1/10th of the energy he has spent
>nation building/demolishing in Iraq on catching those
>responsible for 9/11 we'd have had them by 9/11/02.
>
??? Most of those responsible for 9/11 are probably dead already.
The goal of this war is to eliminate such threats to world peace, not
negotiate with them like the soft-headed left did in pre-WW2 Europe.
In the early months of WW2, the left called it "Churchill's War".
We don't need to take advice from folks of that ilk today.
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"Shel Scott" <WellDone> wrote in message
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> "Robin" <robina...@nospam.com> wrote:
> >Yet we waste time in Iraq, rather than concentrating on
> >catching those responsible for that awful deed.
> >
> Dolts such as Robin, here, don't understand that the U. N. fully
> intended to lift their sanctions. This would have put money into
> Hussein's hands and, soon after, WMD into the hands of various
> terrorist groups. Hans Blix works for the same organization (the U.
> N.) that was profitting, along with countries like France, Germany,
> and Russia, from the "Oil for Food" program.
?????????????/
Fuckhead ..... the U.N. is NOT a "for profit" organization!