Teenagers, U.S. troops in confusing Baghdad battle

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1064855.htm

BAGHDAD, April 10 (Reuters) - Teenagers fire rocket grenades and automatic rifle bursts at U.S. soldiers in Baghdad.

They pause as a motorist quickly rolls down his car window to spit out information on American positions and drive on.

"Down that street we hit an armoured vehicle," one of the young Iraqi fighters tells Reuters, a grenade-launcher slung over his shoulder. "A few streets away we attacked a tank.

"There is a lot of fighting.

"It's hard to tell what is happening."

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[markses]

1. I expect some of the US troops are technically teenagers as well

n/t

[JoFerret]

13. We are letting children fight children.

Great

[LittleApple81]

2. Bloodbath Saddam style coming? If not, what? What a clusterf__k.

I usually don't use bad words but this is so messed up!

[dArKeR]

3. Didn't I hear Taliban Rumsfeld and General Sold My Sout to Satan say

that this entire rebel insurgency is 1000 or less men? In fact, that's what I'm sure I heard both them say at a press conference.

[NNN0LHI]

4. A few dead enders n/t

[u2spirit]

5. Playstations in Fallujah

We need to do an air drop of 100,000 Playstation 2's into Fallujah. That should get the teenagers off of the front lines. (Sarcasm off)

[Scurrilous]

8. We're fighting...

...these guys?



James Cagney w/ The Dead End Kids

[jpak]

11. Watch out for "Routine 6"

Coming to a Baghdad slum near you....

[henslee]

12. LMAO. Know any good "Louie" trivia?

[starroute]

15. Hey, it's Cousin Billy!

Billy Halop right up front -- cousin of my mother.

(Sorry, couldn't help myself. Don't mean to hijack the thread.)

[davhill]

6. A couple thousand men

and a couple hundred thousand boys

[lumpy]

7. Those teen aged boys might likely

be replacing their fathers who were either killed or have been incarcerated for whatever reason( because they are Iraqi adult males ?)

[aneerkoinos]

9. Partly, possible

More to the point to ask: if teenagers and old men are engaging and holding of US troops at home, in western Sunni areas of Bagdad, where are the men, real fighters?

Perhaps holding the highway to Fallujah and trying to stop supplies and reinforcements to Marines in Fallujah and Ramadi, or...?

[Eye and Monkey]

16. "a few dead-enders"

[amandabeech]

10. If this is not Vietnam, it's Intifada II,

and if it's Intifada II, will it stay in Iraq, or will it come to the U.S. directly? How about a suicide bomber in front of the Garden during the Repuke convention?

[daleo]

14. This is a concern, in my opinion also

I doubt very many people supported bin Laden, especially Moslems in the U.S. or Canada. However, as Bush's atrocities pile up, more and more people in North America (even if still a small proportion) could swing over to the conclusion that they have to do something. I hope this is not the legacy of Bush's criminal war.

[Eye and Monkey]

17. "as Bush's atrocities pile up" - you can see the photos -

More at http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
- click on : Aljazeera exclusive in pictures: Falluja siege
- warning: 15 of the 16 photos are of children who have been killed or injured in Fallujah