American troops have begun attacking the Iraqi city of Fallujah, the operation which required the Black Watch to be redeployed.
On Thursday, just days after the regiment moved from its base in Basra, three soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing. The operation came on the day Prince Charles visited troops' families in Wiltshire.
During the night American Marines, backed up by troops of the Iraqi Army, began their operation.
The city of Fallujah is said to be the home of the insurgents behind the recent wave of kidnappings, beheadings and suicide bombings.
Colonel Gary Brandl of the United States Marine Corps commented:
"The enemy has a face. It is Satan's. He is in Fallujah, and we are going to destroy him."**SNIP**
God in heaven -
Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoset = translation: "Kill them all. God will know his own."
Dante Zappala, a soldier's brother, said: "Violence breeds more violence, like the Black Watch saw this week. This will result in more tragic deaths."
Mahmood Al-Sabbagh, an Iraqi Refugee commented: "Fallujah will be like Glasgow if there were invaders here, as if Hitler had come here in World War II. It is exactly the same."More:
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