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November 26, 2004
Fallujah insurgents claim to have resumed attacks
Topics: Middle East News and PerspectivesFrom the Middle-East-NewsOnline comes news on Fallujah from a slightly different viewpoint, taking into account that some of the information in the article is from an Islamist website:
Mujahedeen claim in statement clashes with US-led forces took place in northern Fallujah in recent days.
BAGHDAD - Insurgents in Fallujah claimed in a statement Friday that they had reorganised after a massive US-Iraqi onslaught against the flashpoint city and resumed their attacks.
After reorganising, the Mujahedeen resumed their attacks Wednesday with the aim of shattering the myth of the invincibility of the coalition forces, and the traitors and collaborators who are under the orders of Allawi and Naqib."
The statement issued by the Mujahedeen Council was referring to Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and Interior Minister Falah Naqib, both staunch supporters of the vast operation launched on November 8 to root out insurgents entrenched in Fallujah.
The largest military operation in Iraq since last year's 2003 US-led invasion was aimed at crushing the main hub of the insurgency in the country, which was seen as one of the main obstacles to holding viable polls in January 2005.
While the bulk of the operation is over, the US military has reported pockets of insurgents in some parts of Fallujah and is trying to prevent the rebels from regrouping inside and outside the city.
Iraq's national security adviser Qassem Daoud on Thursday claimed that more than 2,000 people had been killed in the assault and more than 1,600 captured.
Friday's Mujahedeen statement, posted on an Islamist website claimed that clashes took place in northern Fallujah in recent days.
The Mujahedeen will teach a memorable lesson to the collaborators who sold Iraq and prove to Arab regimes that only the language of guns and martyrs makes a difference," it said.
More bodies found in Mosul
At least 12 more bodies were found Friday by US troops fighting insurgents in Mosul, military commanders said, bringing to 40 the number of grim discoveries in the northern city over the past week.
"Twelve more unidentified bodies were found by multinational forces conducting patrolling operations on the western side of the city," said US military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Paul Hastings.
He said this was in addition to the three bodies, including one of a Kurd and a member of Iraq's security forces, found Friday near a mosque in western Mosul.
This brings to at least 40 the number of bodies, most of them belonging to Iraqi soldiers, found in the city over the past week. Read More from Middle-East-News-Online...
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For a point of view from the Arab Baath Socialist Party comes the following 'unbiased truths.' The comments sound like Baghdad Bob is writing them:
The Iraqi Jihad battalions, with their various components of the Baath militants, Saddam's Fedayeen, Iraqi army, its Republican Guard, the National Security Forces and the cells of the Islamic national resistance, prevent the occupier, its army and its gangs of collaborators and police, from imposing an isolated and an unequal battle on heroic Fallujah and on the Resistance formations inside the valiant city, and as the Iraqi people sees it and witnesses it daily......
The Iraqi Jihad battalions, with their various components of the Baath militants, Saddam's Fedayeen, Iraqi army, its Republican Guard, the National Security Forces and the cells of the Islamic national resistance, prevent the occupier, its army and its gangs of collaborators and police, from imposing an isolated and an unequal battle on heroic Fallujah and on the Resistance formations inside the valiant city, and as the Iraqi people sees it and witnesses it daily.... Read More from the Islamic website...
Thanksgiving holidays are normally a time to enjoy our family, rest-up from our hectic schedules, and catch-up on the various things that go undone during our work-week. Now you've Islamic propaganda for entertainment, it's like hearing Baghdad Bob, and we all know how much we've missed him since the fall of Iraq. I was sure that "Laugh In" or some similar show would give him a contract, and they probably would if he would come out of hiding.
Posted by Hyscience at November 26, 2004 1:36 PM
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