Iraqi government setting up new administration for 'liberated' Fallujah

everythingsxen

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Thu Nov-04-04 11:21 PM
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Iraqi government setting up new administration for 'liberated' Fallujah

NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq -- The Iraqi government is setting up a shadow administration to run Fallujah if a combined force of U.S. Marines and Army soldiers is ordered to assault the insurgent stronghold, the military said Thursday.

Should the attack succeed, Iraqi troops will be the primary force keeping order inside the city and Iraqi administrators will be put in control "as soon as it's safe," said Maj. Jim West, a Marine intelligence planner.

"The Iraqi interim government is establishing a government to take over Fallujah, it's an Iraqi government," he told reporters at a U.S. base outside Fallujah.

The military has $75 million in reconstruction funds available for the city, said Navy Cmdr. Steven Stefani.

He said a psychological operations campaign is already under way, with an AM radio station broadcasting messages about the intent of U.S. forces and instructions to residents of Fallujah.

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/11/05/news/nation/14_40_4311_4_04.txt

Ladies and Gentlemen... if the shadow gov't is in place, it is only a matter of hours IMO before they give the green light.

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wurzel

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Thu Nov-04-04 11:22 PM
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1. We are going to have to destroy Fallujah to save it.

Edited on Thu Nov-04-04 11:23 PM by wurzel

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daleo

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Thu Nov-04-04 11:35 PM
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4. It will never happen. I know you mean this ironically

But the U.S. Air Force could level this place to within an inch, and it just will never matter. These people will never give in.

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wtmusic

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Thu Nov-04-04 11:22 PM
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2. What "liberation" are we on, now...

3, or 4? :eyes:

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WannaJumpMyScooter

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Thu Nov-04-04 11:22 PM
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3. NIce. Only thing standing in the way of that is 4-500 dead in

the battle for the place.

Never a problem for pols, diplodunks, and arm chair generals.

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Nicholas_J

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Thu Nov-04-04 11:40 PM
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5. Again, I bet there are going to be far more deaths

ANd the figure of 500 deaths wil be more like the American losses.

I am willing to bet that those who are going to try to take over Fallujah get first hand experience of the location of a goodly portion of the explosives missing from Al Qaqaa.

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