U.S. Launches Air Strikes on Mosul

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces have launched air strikes on Iraq (news - web sites)'s third largest city of Mosul, targeting insurgents who have attacked police stations and fought fierce street battles this week, the U.S. military said on Friday.


"We have targeted known concentrations of terrorists in specific areas of the city," said Captain Angela Bowman, a spokeswoman for U.S. forces based in the city.


"We have used all assets available to commanders to precisely and proportionately respond to the insurgent attacks, these assets do include air strikes."


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041112/ts_nm/iraq_mosul_dc&cid=564&ncid=1480

Translation Of Angela's Horse Shit.

One Marine translator had a similar analysis, with a slightly different spin. "The enemy is like camel spiders," he told the LAT. "You try to squash 'em and they crawl to the next spot."

Article URL: http://slate.msn.com/id/2109580/

Do you think it is OK or funny that we are planning to bomb the shit out of an entire city? Are you in the right forum?

And fuck the camel spider shit that is just fucked up. These people are fighting for their fucking home and life. Get a clue.

you are a little off,,he was quoting some prick in a uniform,

I know exactly what he was saying and whom he was quoting and I didn't dig it. You have a dog in this hunt in Iraq? I have a son in the Marines so don't tell me to lighten up. You are on my ignore punk.

The white soldiers little phrase for dark skinned muslim men.

cockroaches.

Got a feeling this is gonna get so ugly for everyone--it's gonna make Vietnam look good.

:argh:

"Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose..."

Apparently they all gather together in big groups, just waiting to be bombed. :eyes:

Resistance forces in the city also attacked a group of
puppet so-called “Iraqi national guardsmen” who had
been holding the bridge in the center of the city. Five of
the puppet troops were killed and three vehicles were
destroyed. All these events took place in spite of a
curfew imposed on the city by the puppet
regime.

Resistance fighters shoot down US Chinook
helicopter Thursday morning.

Iraqi Resistance forces fired a Strela rocket and shot down
a large US Chinook helicopter over the al-Furat neighborhood
of Baghdad at 10:45am Thursday
morning.

Six US aircraft were also shot down over the city
(Fallujah)Thursday.

Thursday evening, Iraqi Mujahideen bombed an ice factory in
the center of the al-Jawlan neighborhood where US
occupation forces invaders had parked vehicles and
stored equipment. The factorys had a floor space of nearly
5,000 square meters and inside Humvees for
carrying equipment. Large numbers of tanks and
armored vehicles surrounded the
factory.

Mujahideen suspected the Americans would use the factory as
a storage depot or headquarters and therefore they mined
the building prior to the US assault. Thursday night
Mujahideen forces bombarded the bobby-trapped factory
with mortars, setting off a thunderous explosion followed
by massive secondary blasts that were still continuing at
the time of this filing. The explosions were so massive
that fireballs could be seen five kilometers
away.

http://www.iraq-news-net.de/?/news/news/2564/

and we're still not in control of the city.

Fallujah's not Hue, it's Khe Sahn

Khe Sanh Combat Base, site of the most famous siege
(and one of the most controversial battles of the
American Vietnam War), sits silently on a barren
plateau surrounded by vegetation-covered hills often
obscured by mist and fog. It is hard to imagine as you stand
in this peaceful, verdant land that in this very place in early
1968 took place the bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War. . .
But little things help you picture what the history books
say happen here. The outline of the airfield remains distinct
(to this day nothing will grow on it). In places, the ground
is literally carpeted with bullets and rusting shell
casings

http://www.war-stories.com/khesanh-gopher-01-1968.htm

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1112/p01s02-woiq.html

Oh sorry never mind

Wasn't Mosul the friendly Kurdish city that welcomed us with open arms?

We're just going to liberate the shit out of every city in Iraq, apparently.

just posted this in LBN...but probably should have just added it here
~snip~
Mosul is also a modern city, home to Mosul University, one of Iraq's most acclaimed institutions. For millennia, it has been a crossroads for commerce and culture as part of the country's breadbasket, with the areas to the south dominated by rolling fields of wheat and barley.


Insurgents, however, have gunned down many college professors and intellectuals. A spate of kidnappings and attacks on police and civilians seen as collaborators have led some residents to flee the country and scared away foreign journalists.

~snip~

In February, Task Force Olympia replaced the bigger 101st Airborne Division with a focus on building and boosting the capabilities of the Iraqi security forces.


But many in Mosul said the performance of the police was an embarrassment, allowing the militants to score victories.


The governor of Nineveh, of which Mosul is the capital, Duraid Kashmoula, acknowledged some policemen had mixed loyalties. "There's infiltration among some (security) apparatuses from the saboteurs."


A provincial council member who asked his name not be used for fear of the militants, said the Americans should have done a better job building a more reliable and trusted security force.

more:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=2&u=/ap/20041112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_mosul_profile

Reuters: Northern Iraq's Mosul Tense After U.S. Air Strikes
By Maher al-Thanoon

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A semblance of calm returned to Mosul on Friday after U.S. forces carried out air strikes on insurgents, but residents said Iraq's third largest city remained tense and Iraqi police were nowhere to be seen.

U.S. war planes struck rebel areas in the southwest of the city late on Thursday after two days of widespread violence in which groups of insurgents rampaged, burning police stations, stealing weapons and tipping the city toward chaos.

A U.S. soldier was killed in the fighting on Thursday, along with five Iraqi National Guards blown up in a rocket-propelled grenade attack on their vehicles, while doctors said at least 30 civilians had been wounded in crossfire during street battles.

...

U.S. forces said they were doing what they could to maintain order, and denied that the city was tipping out of control. A spokeswoman said force would be used wherever necessary.

"We have used all assets available to commanders to precisely and proportionately respond to the insurgent attacks, these assets do include air strikes," said Captain Angela Bowman, a spokeswoman for U.S. forces based in the city.

"Iraqi National Guard and multinational forces are restoring security to those areas of the city where terrorists are attacking from, primarily in the southwestern area," she said.

"Mosul is not out of control nor is the city in the control of the insurgents."

(more)

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=6799071

You're eyelids are getting heavy, close them, yes,
now doesn't that feel better. Yes, nothing to
see here. Keep moving.

Why are you guys even talking about Mosul.

LOL.

This just in-
The January elections ballots
will be tossed out of planes.

Fill in these ballots, and carry them with you.
They will be collected at your nearest road
checkpoint.

Thank you,
Adnan Allawi
Your only choice

;)

May head to Tikrit next. Or somewhere just north or south of there. Or east or west.

"They created a desolation and called it peace". - Tacitus on the Roman Empire.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi government rushed reinforcements Friday to the country's third-largest city, Mosul, seeking to quell a deadly militant uprising that U.S. officials suspected may be in support of the resistance in Fallujah — now said to be under 80 percent U.S. control.

Police in Mosul largely disappeared from the streets, residents reported, and gangs of armed men brandishing automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenade launchers roamed the city, 225 miles north of Baghdad. Responding to the crisis, Iraqi authorities dismissed Mosul's police chief after local officials reported that officers were abandoning their stations to militants without firing a shot.

~snip~

The most serious incidents took place in Mosul, a city of about 1 million people, where fighting raged for a second day. Gunmen attacked the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party in an hourlong battle that a party official said left six assailants dead.


Militants also assassinated the head of the city's anti-crime task force, Brig. Gen. Mowaffaq Mohammed Dahham, and set fire to his home.


"With the start of operations in Fallujah a few days ago, we expected that there would be some reaction here in Mosul," Brig. Gen. Carter Ham, commander of U.S. forces in the city, told CNN from Mosul
~snip~
more:http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=1&u=/ap/20041112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

:eyes:
In addition to firing the Mosul police chief, Iraqi authorities also dispatched four battalions of the Iraqi National Guard from garrisons along the Syrian and Iranian borders.


Most of the reinforcements are ethnic Kurds who fought alongside American forces during the 2003 invasion — a move which could inflame ethnic rivalries with Mosul's Sunni Arab population. Nevertheless, it appeared Iraqi authorities had no choice given the apparent failure of the city's police force to maintain order.

Yeah, sure....

The same propaganda was spread when children were murdered by US airstrikes in Fallujah.