U.S. Army Breaches Fallujah Ceasefire, Kills 36 People
IslamOnline.net
BAGHDAD, April 22 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – The U.S.
occupation forces have "breached" the ceasefire in the town of
Fallujah, a chief negotiator said Thursday, April22 , as the American
occupation forces admitted killing 36 people in the western Baghdad
town a day earlier.
"The occupation forces breached ceasefire, clinched on Monday, April19
," said Harith Al-Dari, a member of the Muslim Scholars Association,
which has been involved in truce negotiations.
Dari exhorted Arab and Muslim countries to immediately intervene to
stop "these criminal acts", reported Aljazeera on its website.
The Iraqi scholar warned that "the area would be entrenched in a hell
fire," but asserted talks to end the stand-off would continue despite
the U.S. violation.
"The breach in the truce will affect the talks, but negotiations will
not stop," Dari underlined.
U.S. forces agreed not to resume offensive operations if Fallujah
residents handed in their heavy weapons, threatening their troops
would resume attacks on short notice if necessary.
Dari said some had begun to hand in such weapons, but a senior
official in the U.S.-led administration told reporters the response to
the demand had been "very limited".
After just 90 minutes of declaring a ceasefire in the town on April9 ,
TV air images showed U.S. forces rocking Fallujah, much to the
consternation of the town's300 , 000inhabitants.
On April13 , U.S. occupation troops breached a ceasefire reached days
before, killing at least nine Iraqis and wounding up to 38 others.
More Casualties
In a related development, the U.S. military announced Thursday that
Marines killed 36 "insurgents" in Fallujah on Wednesday, April21 ,
reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The army claimed in a statement that the offensive started when up
to60 fighters attacked U.S. marines with small arms and
rocket-propelled grenades in northwest Fallujah.
There are no reports on the account of the fighting by the Fallujah
inhabitants.
A U.S. military official said the clashes on Wednesday were "very
intense but very localized", arguing the marines were honoring the
ceasefire.
"It would appear there is some honoring on both sides," he claimed.
The return of the families who fled the fighting – a main reason for
declaring the Monday ceasefire, was suspended on Thursday because of
the reported clashes.
An armored column of about1 , 000soldiers from the1 st Battalion16 th
Infantry Regiment reached the outskirts of Karma, a small village six
kilometers north of Fallujah, Thursday.
The deployment is in an attempt to clear food delivery routes from
Baghdad to U.S bases to the west, according to an AFP correspondent at
the scene.
An attempt to clear the route last week met with fierce resistance
that left 100 people and one U.S. soldier killed, according to the
U.S. forces.
The U.S. offensive on Fallujah left anti-American sentiments simmering
among the ordinary Iraqis and religious leaders.
"We beg God that He will avenge us and foil the plans" of the
Americans, Sheikh Mohammed Abdel Aziz al-Ani, imam of a Fallujah
mosque, said in a protest gathering.
The U.S. offensive on Fallujah has claimed the lives of at least 700
Iraqis, mostly women and children, and left up to 1500 others injured
in the town, which has been under a crippling U.S. siege since April 5
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26 Apr 2004 06:41:14 AM |
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IslamOnline.net
LOL!!!!!
Yeah, there's an unbiased news source.
The truth is that the US forces have been holding back for weeks now despite
the fact that they come under daily fire from the militants.
Tony
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26 Apr 2004 06:54:23 AM |
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"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> wrote in message =
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LOL!!!!!
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Yeah, there's an unbiased news source.
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The truth is that the US forces have been holding back for weeks now =
despite
the fact that they come under daily fire from the militants.
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Tony
Do you know of any news source YOU rely on isn't biased?=20
Willy
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26 Apr 2004 08:55:31 AM |
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"WillyWaco" <g-ray52@excite.com> wrote in message
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"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> wrote in message
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IslamOnline.net
LOL!!!!!
Yeah, there's an unbiased news source.
The truth is that the US forces have been holding back for weeks now
despite
the fact that they come under daily fire from the militants.
Tony
Do you know of any news source YOU rely on isn't biased?
Willy
Whut you talkin' 'bout Willis???
You sayin' World Net Daily doesn't approach events objectively?? HA!! Now
you talkin' crazy boy!!
But ... in all honesty I find it hard to seperate it from The Weekly World
News ... or whatever that crazy grocery store rag is with 'Bat Boy' and last
week they had a picture on the front page of an Angel accidently shot by
U.S. soldiers in Iraq ... apparently the military was investigating.
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