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Banned
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Well here you go......they hate us for our freedom ! How many more young Americans will die before the U.S. inevitably cuts it's losses and pulls out of this isane and useless occupation?
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...051000221.html
'They Came Here to Die'
Insurgents Hiding Under House in Western Iraq Prove Fierce in Hours-Long Fight With Marines
By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, May 11, 2005; Page A01
JARAMI, Iraq, May 10 -- Screaming "Allahu Akbar'' to the end, the foreign fighters lay on their backs in a narrow crawl space under a house and blasted their machine guns up through the concrete floor with bullets designed to penetrate tanks. They fired at U.S. Marines, driving back wave after wave as the Americans tried to retrieve a fallen comrade.
Through Sunday night and into Monday morning, the foreign fighters battled on, their screaming voices gradually fading to just one. In the end, it took five Marine assaults, grenades, a tank firing bunker-busting artillery rounds, 500-pound bombs unleashed by an F/A-18 attack plane and a point-blank attack by a rocket launcher to quell them.
The Marines got their fallen man, suffering one more dead and at least five wounded in the process. And according to survivors of the battle, the foreign fighters near the Syrian border proved to be everything their reputation had suggested: fierce, determined and lethal to the last.
"They came here to die," said Gunnery Sgt. Chuck Hurley, commander of the team from the 1st Platoon, Lima Company, of the Marines' 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment, that battled the insurgents in the one-story house in Ubaydi, about 15 miles east of the Syrian border.
"They were willing to stay in place and die with no hope," Hurley said Tuesday. "All they wanted was to take us with them.''
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The "news" report constantly described the insurgents as "foreign fighters", but offered no confirmation that this was an accurate description:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...1000221_2.html
The costly equipment, as well as body armor later recovered from the bodies of dead insurgents, suggested that the fighters were foreigners, the military said. Though the level of foreigners' involvement in the insurgency has been disputed for nearly two years, Muslim men have come to Iraq from neighboring countries such as Saudi Arabia and from as far away as Chechnya and Indonesia to fight the United States and its allies.
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The May 10, 2005 Pentagon Briefing exposes the inaccuracies of the WAPO propaganda report's constant references to "foreign" fighters:
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http://www.dod.mil/transcripts/2005/...0510-2721.html
Presenter: Pentagon Spokesman Lawrence DiRita and Director of Operations, J-3, Lt. Gen. James T. Conway Tuesday, May 10, 2005 2:37 p.m. EDT
Defense Department Regular Briefing
............................. Q Can I follow up on that? Can you say whether or not you've seen any evidence of some of these foreign fighters, as you've described them, crossing back over the border? And are the Syrians in any way involved in this or in any way cooperating?
GEN. CONWAY: I don't think I used the term foreign fighters. I don't think we know that yet. Certainly it's in proximity to the border. There is a major crossing site there, Husaybah, and again, there's smugglers' routes both north and south of that location. So it's not unrealistic to expect that there could be foreign fighters engaged.
At this point, we simply don't know if the there is movement across the border associated with this, because the preponderance of our forces are engaged in this fight..........................
..................... Q General, the uniforms that you mentioned, first could you describe them? Are these like old Iraqi military uniforms? Are they from somewhere else? And second, does the presence of a uniformed armed force on a battlefield give -- particularly the foreign fighters, give them extra legal rights, I mean are they -- if they're captured under the Geneva Conventions, than a typical foreign fighter receives?
GEN. CONWAY: Yeah, what I expressed to you was one line out of one report that talked about some insurgents wearing uniforms. And I think the answer to your second question is no, in that it is not an organized army per se, as a result of whatever -- ................
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Thank God for an honest US General making statements to counter the repetitive WAPO propaganda. This is the newspaper that the right accuses of being a leading "liberal media" publication! |