cazorp
04-28-2004, 12:46 PM
Just saw this vid on ******* site, a platoon of Marines seems to be captured in a building fighting it out.. seems to be some really fanatic guys they're fighting over there.. :bash:
I cant link you to the vid, but use this link and check out the article called "combat confusion"
http://*******.feedroom.com/ifr_main.jsp?st=1083169375310&rf=bm&mp=WMP&wmp=1&rm=1&cpf=true&fr=040904_063240_872380xfbca9a7246x4fd3&rdm=471921.61070871085#frtop
******* Television
"Urban Combat Chaos In Falluja April 28, 2004
Fierce fighting erupted between U.S. Marines and insurgents in therestive Iraqi city of Falluja on Tuesday (April 27), witnesses said.
They said U.S. aircraft and tanks were blasting the Golan district of the city.
"I can hear more than 10 explosions a minute. Fires are lightingthe night sky," one witness told *******.
Fighting in the besieged Sunni stronghold of Falluja on Monday (April 26) killed one U.S. soldier and eight insurgents, casting doubt on a deal Americans had hoped would end one of their biggest problems in Iraq.
With the clock ticking down to a planned handover of formal sovereignty to Iraqis on June 30, U.S.-led forces are confronting spiralling violence and kidnappings that have shaken the coalition and undermined Iraq's reconstruction efforts.
The thorniest military dilemmas in Iraq involve anti-American fighters from the country's two main religious groups -- minority Sunni Muslims in Falluja and Shi'ites in the holy city of Najaf.
A deal was struck on Sunday (April 25) with civic leaders in Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, aimed at putting joint patrols of U.S. Marines and Iraqi police on the streets on Tuesday (April 27), when an offer to the insurgents to lay down their heavy weapons expires.
Local people were deeply sceptical, however.
The battle that broke out shortly before noon on Monday, seemed to bear out those fears.
Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told a news conference the fightingstarted when insurgents fired at Marines from a mosque that had been raided earlier by the Marines.
He said Marines returned fire, killing eight insurgents and damaging the mosque. One U.S. soldier died and eight were wounded.
After Marines replied with heavy machineguns, jets and Cobra attackhelicopters flew overhead. Big explosions threw up thick black plumes of smoke. Residents said they saw corpses on the streets and an imam accused the Americans of hitting his mosque.
A U.S. reporter in Falluja quoted a Marine officer as saying guerrillas had forced them to retreat from two buildings after making them "fight for their lives".
Of the 522 U.S. service personnel killed in action since the invasion in March 2003, more than 110 have died this month, many at Falluja.
Doctors in the town of 300,000 say some 600 people died in the three weeks since U.S. forces retaliated for the murder of four American security guards."
www.*******.com
I cant link you to the vid, but use this link and check out the article called "combat confusion"
http://*******.feedroom.com/ifr_main.jsp?st=1083169375310&rf=bm&mp=WMP&wmp=1&rm=1&cpf=true&fr=040904_063240_872380xfbca9a7246x4fd3&rdm=471921.61070871085#frtop
******* Television
"Urban Combat Chaos In Falluja April 28, 2004
Fierce fighting erupted between U.S. Marines and insurgents in therestive Iraqi city of Falluja on Tuesday (April 27), witnesses said.
They said U.S. aircraft and tanks were blasting the Golan district of the city.
"I can hear more than 10 explosions a minute. Fires are lightingthe night sky," one witness told *******.
Fighting in the besieged Sunni stronghold of Falluja on Monday (April 26) killed one U.S. soldier and eight insurgents, casting doubt on a deal Americans had hoped would end one of their biggest problems in Iraq.
With the clock ticking down to a planned handover of formal sovereignty to Iraqis on June 30, U.S.-led forces are confronting spiralling violence and kidnappings that have shaken the coalition and undermined Iraq's reconstruction efforts.
The thorniest military dilemmas in Iraq involve anti-American fighters from the country's two main religious groups -- minority Sunni Muslims in Falluja and Shi'ites in the holy city of Najaf.
A deal was struck on Sunday (April 25) with civic leaders in Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, aimed at putting joint patrols of U.S. Marines and Iraqi police on the streets on Tuesday (April 27), when an offer to the insurgents to lay down their heavy weapons expires.
Local people were deeply sceptical, however.
The battle that broke out shortly before noon on Monday, seemed to bear out those fears.
Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told a news conference the fightingstarted when insurgents fired at Marines from a mosque that had been raided earlier by the Marines.
He said Marines returned fire, killing eight insurgents and damaging the mosque. One U.S. soldier died and eight were wounded.
After Marines replied with heavy machineguns, jets and Cobra attackhelicopters flew overhead. Big explosions threw up thick black plumes of smoke. Residents said they saw corpses on the streets and an imam accused the Americans of hitting his mosque.
A U.S. reporter in Falluja quoted a Marine officer as saying guerrillas had forced them to retreat from two buildings after making them "fight for their lives".
Of the 522 U.S. service personnel killed in action since the invasion in March 2003, more than 110 have died this month, many at Falluja.
Doctors in the town of 300,000 say some 600 people died in the three weeks since U.S. forces retaliated for the murder of four American security guards."
www.*******.com