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The US bombed a house in Fallujah today, killing 16 people. Sound familiar?
Source: The TIP, 2004-06-19
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AP Report:
Missiles Target Terrorists in Fallujah By JIM KRANE, AP
BAGHDAD, Iraq (June 19) - The U.S. military stepped up its campaign against militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, launching an airstrike Saturday that pulverized a suspected hideout in Fallujah. At least 16 people were killed and several houses in the residential neighborhood were wrecked.
Brig Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the military's deputy operations chief, said multiple intelligence sources suggested that ''a significant number of people in the Zarqawi network'' were in the house at the time of the attack.
U.S. officials said they didn't know if al-Zarqawi himself was there.
I began reading the report when I realized...Sounds like Gaza, doesn't it?
For 56 years, war has ravaged that little slice of land known as Israel. Before that, it was sparsely inhabited by a mixture of Arabs, Europeans, Muslims, Christians and Jews. The arrid land, treeless, was unablel to support a larger population.
Now, it is the most disputed real estate on the planet. Until Fallujah.
My God, can we not just stop this insanity?
If we can't think of another way to fuel our economy...our cars, our homes, our industries, we will make life on earth un-liveable.
The article continued...
Ten Marines and hundreds of Iraqis, many of them civilians, died before the siege was lifted and security was handed over to an Iraqi volunteer force, the Fallujah Brigade.
The clashes in Buhriz, near the city of Baqouba, began Wednesday when insurgents fired on U.S. troops after they met with the mayor to discuss reconstruction projects, 1st Infantry Division spokesman Maj. Neal O'Brien said.
Clashes have continued intermittently since then in the Baqouba area, about 35 miles northeast of Baghdad. One American soldier died of wounds suffered Friday in Buhriz, O'Brien said.
The clashes spread Saturday to nearby Tahrir, where insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades at a U.S. patrol, wounding two U.S. soldiers, O'Brien said.
Dr. Nassir Jawad of the Baqouba General Hospital said at least six Iraqis were killed and 54 were wounded in the Buhriz fighting. Municipal officials had said 13 Iraqis died. U.S. officials put the Iraqi death toll at 10 in the Thursday fighting and five on Friday.
In southern Iraq, a roadside bomb killed a Portuguese security official and an Iraqi policeman with him as they drove from the southern city of Basra to nearby Zubayr, police Capt. Diaa Hussein said.
The Portugese Foreign Ministry confirmed the death of the Portuguese citizen, Antonio Jose Monteiro Abelha, 36, who worked with the Iraqi state-run Oil Products Co.
The bodies continue to stack up. Like we used to say "What if we gave a war and nobody came."
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