Fallujah rebels give US snipers 1200 GMT ultimatum to pull back

[NNN0LHI]

1200 GMT is 25 minutes from now.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040412/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_fallujah_ultimatum&cid=1514&ncid=1480

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Fallujah rebel leaders gave US marine snipers a 1200 GMT ultimatum to leave the besieged town or face a renewed all-out offensive, a journalist who attended a meeting of insurgents told AFP.

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[Quetzal]

1. 25 minutes?

[sweettater]

2. I think they mean business.........

[NNN0LHI]

3. 16 minutes now n/t

[teryang]

4. I wonder if they are using the term loosely

...or if snipers are becoming the main weapon in a set piece battle.

[dbt]

5. Warning is probably "not specific enough"

I guess we'll find out in 14 minutes.

:freak:
dbt

[JNelson6563]

12. good one

touche' Bushies!

[Quetzal]

6. About 10 minutes left

n/t

[Mari333]

7. Waking up to this is hell again,. sometimes I wish I didnt wake up.

all out offensive.another day to wake up and wonder if Michael will be alive and make it thru this one.
Now, get on the phone, call your congresspeople and senators, and demand the troops be brought home. Tell everyone you know its time to do something, get our kids home. Call the White House, call everyone , tell them to bring the troops home now.

[Cooley Hurd]

8. It's zero-hour...

1200 GMT... :(

[maddezmom]

9. what will today bring us

one thing is certain, it'll be BAD news. :(

[Cooley Hurd]

10. lunaville.org's latest #'s

http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/SumDetails.aspx?hndRef=4-2004

73 US military deaths since the beginning of the month. :grr:

24 alone since Friday. :grr:

674 total. :grr:

880 Iraqis killed since the beginning of the uprisings. :grr:

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And to think how close we came to avoiding ALL of this....

537 vote difference between Bush and Gore in Florida in 2000 (as per http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2000/2000presge.htm#FL ) :grr:

1 Supreme Court justice vote in favor of the plaintiff in Bush v. Gore in 2000. :grr:

[RoyGBiv]

11. Rising Numbers

674 total

I checked the site last night about, oh, 8pm central time. It was 667 then. About midnight it was 670. Now, it's 674. What gives?

[Cooley Hurd]

13. The DoD waited until Sunday to release...

...most of the casualty counts. (a weekend document dump, of sorts).

[Minstrel Boy]

15. watching the spike on this graph is even more sickening for it being

so predictable.

[maddezmom]

14. Fallujah deadline passes

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,6119,2-10-1460_1511245,00.html