10 Marines killed in Falluja were at promotion ceremony. Not on foot patrol

NNN0LHI

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Tue Dec-06-05 10:27 AM
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10 Marines killed in Falluja were at promotion ceremony. Not on foot patrol

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LON647317.htm

BAGHDAD, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Ten U.S. Marines killed near the Iraqi city of Falluja last week had been at a promotion ceremony and were not on foot patrol as initially reported, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.

The Marines were in a disused flour mill on the outskirts of the city to celebrate the promotion of three soldiers, a military statement said.

As the ceremony ended, the Marines dispersed and one of them is thought to have stepped on a buried pressure plate linked to explosives that caused the devastating blast.

The death toll was the largest suffered by U.S. soldiers in Iraq in a single incident since August.

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Sparkman

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Tue Dec-06-05 10:31 AM
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1. On this tragic event, please remember who started this war and why.

It was not Saddam Husein, and the lying by our government and it's responsibilities for the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent lives is an abomination unto god. imo

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Straight Shooter

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Tue Dec-06-05 10:37 AM
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2. First the initial news was withheld from us, then we were misinformed

as to the circumstances. I had understood they were "clearing out a factory," and that the foot patrol video was propaganda from the insurgents.

Now we find out they were at a ceremony? :wtf:

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mike_c

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Tue Dec-06-05 10:41 AM
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3. shell game....

The story changes constantly. And why would insurgents mine the interior of a "disused flour mill" unless it was regularly used by U.S. troops, and if it was regularly used, wouldn't there have been some security to prevent mining? This doesn't pass the smell test, IMO.

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Dhalgren

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Tue Dec-06-05 10:51 AM
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4. Nothing in this damned, dirty war passes that test...

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