U.S. Says Fallujah Mission Accomplished

AP Changes the headline and story, now reads:
U.S. Troops Occupy All of Fallujah

5 minutes ago Middle East - AP


By JIM KRANE, Associated Press Writer

FALLUJAH, Iraq - U.S. military officials said Saturday that American troops had now "occupied" the entire city of Fallujah and there were no more major concentrations of insurgents still fighting. Artillery and airstrikes also ended after nightfall.

Iraqi officials declared the operation to free Fallujah of militants was "accomplished" but acknowledged the two most wanted figures in the city — Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Sheik Abdullah al-Janabi — had escaped the fighting.


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FALLUJAH, Iraq - U.S. troops declared Saturday the operation to free Fallujah of militants was "accomplished" but acknowledged the two most wanted figures in the city — Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Sheik Abdullah al-Janabi — had escaped the fighting.

But after nearly a week of intense urban combat, U.S. officers said resistance had not been entirely subdued and that it still could take several days of fighting to clear the final pockets.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=1&u=/ap/20041113/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

It worked so well the last time they said it. :eyes:


Islamist Groups Vow to Spread Fight Across Iraq

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041113/ts_nm/iraq_zarqawi_dc&cid=564&ncid=1480

Where could it have been...?

Mission Fucking Accomplished?

When I first saw the caption..I thought to meself.."US..says it's so?..Yeah right"!

It must be just the opposite..cause they are lyin' pigs who lie just to keep in top form!

Looks like you're going to have to copy the url into your browser rather than clicking on it: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=ES14G3X5CINMGCRBAE0CFEY?type=topNews&storyID=6804743

"In Mosul, gunmen were still roaming the streets in some districts after storming and looting nine police stations on Thursday, but Iraqi and U.S. forces were guarding some of the key bridges that span the Tigris River, residents said In other districts, vigilantes set up roadblocks and patrolled neighborhoods to deter thieves and looters.

The U.S. military said the city was calmer on Saturday, with only sporadic fighting in some areas. It said three of five Tigris bridges had reopened and a curfew had been lifted.

Mosul, a mostly Sunni city of about two million people, tipped into chaos on Wednesday and Thursday, when groups of gunmen ran amok, attacking and torching nine police stations.

The U.S. commander in the north said the gunmen were trying to draw attention from Falluja, but that they appeared to be from the area, not guerrillas who had escaped the U.S. cordon."

just replace the ; for a ? and the link won't be "broken"

www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?jsessionid=ES14G3X5CINMGCRBAE0CFEY?type=topNews&storyID=6804743

edited to add the humor from your link:

"More than 1,000 Saddamists and terrorists have been killed. Around 200 have been arrested," he said. "The operations are almost over. There are only pockets of resistance left."

OOOO- Saddamists!

I am really scared now!

What happened to "Bathists" or "dead-enders"?

hohohohohohahahahahahahehehehehehe

:scared: of those "Saddamists"!

carrier and declare Major Combat Operations are over AGAIN?

Of course with the Mission Accomplished sign that the sailors made (their excuse)

should parachute into Fallujah. He seems fond of wearing them.

They are full of Shit there is still fighting going on there. the media and the military is always spinning whats happening in Iraq. they want no bad news coming out of there.if you go to Aljazeera you will see differant storys on Iraq.

tells me a lot...and that's only the casualties they are admitting. Red Crescent not allowed to enter Fallujah...why not, what is the US military afraid of???

How are you supposed to 'kill off all the insurgents, oh wait, terrorists' if you advertise the battle days in advance???
This whole operation just doesn't make sense. Methinks it's one of those pulicity stunts again.

well, an unwinnable war is never done! We better decide soon where to attack next so the insurgents have plenty of time to get out of town again!

--bkl

n/t

in to assist the civilians left alive.

We will have to kill most of them in order to bring them democracy.

because lately I've been called out for being too literal. :)

But I see what you mean. I was refering back to a quote form the Vietnam era, I am showing my age.

and show your age...we all can learn from the past. :hugs:

.. they reported several times that most insurgents had left the area before the offensive. Great.. now they're somewhere else.

For him that can only mean it's a prelude to even more massive death and destruction.:-(

FALLUJAH, Iraq - U.S. military officials said Saturday that American troops had now "occupied" the entire city of Fallujah and there were no more major concentrations of insurgents still fighting after nearly a week of intense urban combat.

A U.S. officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Fallujah was "occupied but not subdued." Artillery and airstrikes also were halted after nightfall to prevent mistaken attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces who had taken up positions throughout the city.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=540&e=1&u=/ap/20041113/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Now what? Oh, saddle up, men - we gotta drive up to Mosul tonight. Unbelievable.

Those U.S. officials better hope ol' Zell doesn't get a hold of them!

"Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator.

And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators. "

Go sick 'em, Zell!!!

before they are hidden forever!

seems to me the way things are being blown up as arms caches could also hold the dead.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

heck the bad guys prolly got an Air Force one Plane OUT!

500 casualties was enough.

thirsting, town bombed to hell, stench, no hospital, clinic bombed - everything is rosy because we say all is accomplished!

Don't you love to play war games? How did we get here? What madmen and women brought us here? Do you think Jesus is looking down on our leaders with love?

But they left the mosques standing. I guess people all over the world can thank the U.S. that we honored that value?

With all sarcasm!

to stuff some more socks in his pants and play fighter pilot again?

which I had read was the true mission of this offensive. Bin Laden, al-Zarqawi,"Mission accomplished"---Same-o, Same-o

which is unclear.

Honestly, this is what we're going to be blasted with on TV. Christmas is around the corner and as we're this "Christian Country" it is our duty to go out and spend money on useless gifts.

So avert your eyes as most Americans and FOX viewers in partuclar do when we decide to take over a country.

SHOP!!!

especially with no victory parade or grand speech by *...that's so sad when you can't even take the words from the DoD as being the truth anymore :eyes:

Revealing....

We haven't hit bottom yet...................

When did I hear those words before? Gee, only about 1,000 GI deaths ago.

on a back studio lot.

As for Fallujah, Wolfowitz has been strangely silent - no self-glorifying pronouncments about Iraqis greeting us as liberators and dancing in the streets and throwing flowers this time around, I guess.
Now they think they have a "mandate", they think they can just get on with their agenda of genocide for oil, without making any excuses for it, and without having to sell the public any mythical scenarios.

I think it would be an awesome Christmas Card picture if mr. chimpy would go on his own in fatigues. Stand on an unarmed tank (since mission accomplished no need for arming) in the middle of Fallujah and take a picture. I wonder how many will come up and hug him in Fallujah for mission accomplished?:grouphug:

"Any (Iraqi National Guard) or (Iraqi special forces) not seen with the Marines are to be considered hostile," Lt. Owen Boyce, 24, of Simsbury, Conn., told his men.


If you have to go the head, make sure you take a marine with you.
Reminds you of the old phrase "But... we're down here to help you people"

but Lieutenents love to fluff up their egos with this kind of stuff. Had to work under a couple like that and it was a huge joke.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/111204X.shtml

There are at least 120 mosques in Fallujah. A consensus is emerging that almost half of them have been smashed by air strikes and shelling by US tanks - something that will haunt the United States for ages. The mosques stopped broadcasting the five daily calls for prayer, but Fadhil Badrani, an Iraqi reporter for BBC World Service in Arabic and one of the very few media witnesses in Fallujah, writes that "every time a big bomb lands nearby, the cry rises from the minarets: 'Allahu Akbar' ".When a few snipers are capable of holding scores of marines for a day in Fallujah - an eerie replay of the second part of Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket - and when eight of 10 US divisions are bogged down by a few thousand Iraqis with Kalashnikovs and grenade launchers, the fact is the US does not control anything in Sunni Iraq. It does not control towns, cities, roads, and it barely controls the Green Zone, the American fortress in Baghdad that is the ultimate symbol of the occupation.

In 1999, the Russians bombed and destroyed Grozny, the Chechen capital, a city of originally 400,000 people. Five years later, Chechen guerrillas are still trapping Russian troops in a living hell there. The same scenario will be replayed in Fallujah - a city of originally 300,000 people. All this destruction - which any self-respecting international lawyer can argue is a war crime - for the Bush administration to send a brutal message: either you're with us or we'll smash you to pieces.

The Iraqi resistance does not care if thousands of mujahideen are smashed to pieces: it is actually gearing up for a major strategic victory. The strategy is twofold: half of the Fallujah resistance stayed behind, ready to die like martyrs, increasing the already boiling-point hatred of Americans in Iraq and the Middle East and boosting their urban support. The other half left before Phantom Fury and is already setting fires in Baghdad, Tikrit, Ramadi, Baquba, Balad, Kirkuk, Mosul and even Shi'ite Karbala.