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"Who Me!" |
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23 Oct 2005 05:19:59 PM |
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Another day of Liberating... |
*U.S. Troops are fighting a losing battle for Sunni triangle*
By Adrian Blomfield
(Filed: 22/10/2005)
The mob grew more frenzied as the gunmen dragged the two surviving
Americans from the cab of their bullet-ridden lorry and forced them to
kneel on the street.
Killing one of the men with a rifle round fired into the back of his
head, they doused the other with petrol and set him alight. Barefoot
children, yelping in delight, piled straw on to the screaming man's body
to stoke the flames.
It had taken just one wrong turn for disaster to unfold. Less than a mile=
from the base it was heading to, the convoy turned left instead of right
and lumbered down one of the most anti-American streets in Iraq, a narrow=
bottleneck in Duluiya town, on a peninsular jutting into the Tigris river=
named after the Jibouri tribe that lives there.
As the lorries desperately tried to reverse out, dozens of Sunni Arab
insurgents wielding rocket launchers and automatic rifles emerged from
their homes.
The gunmen were almost certainly emboldened by the fact that the American=
soldiers escorting the convoy would not have been able to respond quickly=
enough.
"The hatches of the humvees were closed," said Capt Andrew Staples, a
member of the Task Force Liberty 1-15 battalion that patrols Duluiya and
other small towns on the eastern bank of the Tigris, who spoke to
soldiers involved.
Within minutes, four American contractors, all employees of the
Halliburton subsidiary Kellog, Brown & Root, were dead. The jubilant
crowd dragged their corpses through the street, chanting anti-US slogans.=
An investigation has been launched into why the contractors were not
better protected.
Perhaps fearful of public reaction in America, where support for the war
is falling, US officials suppressed details of the Sept 20 attack, which
bore a striking resemblance to the murder of four other contractors in
Fallujah last year.
Duluiya, located in the notorious Sunni triangle, is much smaller than
Fallujah but no less violent, even if events here rarely make the news.
The violence here seems to encapsulate the growing difficulties the US
military is facing in trying to defeat the insurgency. Pinned down by a
constant stream of hit-and-run attacks from former Saddam regime
loyalists, American soldiers are unable to focus their attention on the
foreign extremists who pose a far more dangerous threat to the future of
Iraq.
Yet it is here that the battle against the suicide bombers must be won.
The isolated towns east of the Tigris supply the foreign fighters and
their allies and provide a haven where they can regroup after American
offensives on their urban strongholds.
If the Americans do not close off these boltholes, it seems unlikely the
war can be won.
But hopes for progress are growing more remote. The insurgency in eastern=
Salahuddin province is growing more intense, more deadly and more
sophisticated.
Lt Col Gary Brito, the battalion's commanding officer, said that in
recent months the number of roadside bombs targeting his men had
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They are having a more devastating effect too.
"Before only two out of 10 used to be effective," he said. "Now four or
five have a catastrophic effect, blowing away a vehicle or causing
casualties." In the past few months at least four American soldiers in
this battalion alone have been killed. Another 39 have been wounded.
Even routine patrols are fraught with danger.
"What the hell was that," shouted Lt Chris Baldwin as a huge explosion
rocked Baker Company's convoy of humvees trundling along a street in
Dour, another town under Lt Col Brito's watch.
"Contact! Contact!" he bellowed into his radio as the gunners opened fire=
on a row of nearby houses from where the rocket-propelled anti-tank
missile was fired.
As the gunfire died down, the soldiers burst into house after house,
their facades peppered with bullet holes.
But, as is so often the case, the attacker had vanished down one of
Dour's maze-like alleys.
Instead the Americans were confronted with sullen Iraqis, holding their
terrified children to their sides. An old woman sat on her bed, clutching=
her heart, as the soldiers interrogated the family.
"They heard nothing, they saw nothing, same as ******* usual," said Sgt
Jody Miller. Taking another deep drag from his cigarette, he turned to
the company's translator.
"Tell them to tell us where the bad guys are so we stop frigging shooting=
up their houses," he said.
Nobody was hurt but the mutual distrust between the Americans and the
local community deepened just a little bit more.
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GOD'S CREATOR
...But, that was my only sin... :(
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Wise men challenge unknown things while seeking more wisdom.
Other men kneel down, close their eyes while insanely mumbling...
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WHY ?
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~ajwerner/
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