Insurgents Kill More Than 50 Across Iraq (11/7/04)

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Facing a major assault in Fallujah, insurgents struck back with coordinated attacks on police installations using suicide car bombs, mortars and rocket attacks, killing more than 50 people and wounding more than 60, including nearly two dozen Americans.


The attacks could have been aimed at relieving pressure on Fallujah, where about 10,000 American troops are massing for a major assault. Web site postings claimed responsibility for several of the Saturday attacks in the name of an al-Qaida-linked group believed holed up in Fallujah.


At dawn Sunday, rebels attacked police stations in western Anbar province, leaving 22 people dead, at least seven of them policemen, according to police and hospital officials.


Using bombs and small arms fire, insurgents hit police stations in Haditha and Haqlaniyah, 135 miles northwest of Baghdad, said Capt. Nasser Abdullah of the K3 police station in Haqlaniyah.

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=1&u=/ap/20041107/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[AmyDeLune]

1. *sigh*

Welcome to Viet Nam, er, I mean, Iraq.

[Journeyman]

2. Should we count these among our dead. . .

seeing as how our Commander Death, the Big Cheney himself, made such a stink how the Iraqis themselves are part of the coalition of the billing?

[teryang]

3. Guerilla organization is institutional not geographic

It is fluid, amorphous, and has the flexibility to respond appropriately to any tactical approach over time.

<"I cannot claim that entering Fallujah will end the terrorist attacks in Iraq," Iraq's national security adviser, Qassem Dawoud, told Al-Arabiya television. "But I can say that we will deal with a very big pocket of terrorism in Iraq and we will uproot it. This pocket forms the backbone and the center for terrorists in other areas in Iraq.">

Anyone who could say this must be being advised by the same kind of Americans who lost the war in Vietnam.

[leftchick]

4. someone handed him rummy's speech....

where is rummy anyway? Shouldn't he be on TV announcing this big massacre about to take place?

[maddezmom]

5. yea, where are the "daily briefings" from Iraq?

now that * has a mandate, no one to ask any questions. :eyes:

[teryang]

6. I suspect he's micro managing this thing

He's probably at battle space galatica imposing gee whiz full spectrum dominance over the booby traps and secret passageways in Fallujah.

It's inappropriate to have aerospace pukes like Meyers and Rumdum directing a war on the ground with battle hardened guerillas.

The meme is out, it's Carthage of the ancient world. Burn it and pour salt on the soil.

[Moderator]

7. Yahoo changed the headline to:

Iraq Declares State of Emergency

[maddezmom]

8. headline has changed:

Iraq Declares State of Emergency
as well as the story

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The government declared a 60-day state of emergency throughout most of the country Sunday, as U.S. and Iraqi forces prepared for an expected all-out assault on rebels in Fallujah. Insurgents escalated a wave of violence that has killed more than 50 people the past two days, and a U.S. soldier was killed in an attack on a convoy.


Heavy explosions were heard in Baghdad as government spokesman Thair Hassan al-Naqeeb announced the state of emergency over the entire country except Kurdish areas in the north.


"It is going to be a curfew. It is going to be so many things, but tomorrow the prime minister will mention it," he said. Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi will give more details Monday, he said.


Al-Naqeeb declined to say whether the announcement signaled an imminent attack on the insurgent stronghold Fallujah, saying, "We have seen the situation is worsening in this area. Any obstacle will be removed."

[maddezmom]

9. Militants Kill 12 Iraqi National Guards

NAJAF, Iraq - Twelve Iraqi National Guards were abducted and executed by militants dressed as policemen while traveling home to Najaf, an official with a leading Shiite party said Sunday.



The 12 men were kidnapped near Latifiyah, an area of frequent violence bout 20 miles south of Baghdad, said Abu Ali al-Najafi from the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (news - web sites), known by its acronym SCIRI.


They were heading home to Najaf on Thursday after a visit to Baghdad when the kidnappers, disguised as policemen, stopped their convoy, said al-Najaf, speaking from SCIRI offices in Najaf. The 12 were seized along with the convoy's driver, though a 13th guardsman escaped.


The assailants, who later identified themselves as members of a group calling itself the al-Furqan Brigade, tortured the driver, breaking his arm and sending him off with a ransom demand to their relatives, for payment of $1,000 for each "headless body of their dear one," Al-Najafi said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=4&u=/ap/20041107/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_guardsmen_executed

[leftchick]

10. lovely. Where did they get the uniforms?

oh, nevermind...

[maddezmom]

12. perhaps here:21 shot dead in Iraq police station massacre

RAMADI, Iraq (AFP) - Gunmen shot dead 21 policemen, execution style, in Iraq (news - web sites), one day after a scourge of car bombs and clashes against police and local government targets killed 36 people.


The renewed violence against symbols of Iraq's US-backed government came as Prime Minister Iyad Allawi looked set to mount an offensive on rebel-held Fallujah, in the heart of Al-Anbar province, where the police massacre occured.


About 200 gunmen ambushed the main police station in Haditha, a town 200 kilometres, (120 miles) west of Baghdad, and another smaller station in the nearby village of Haqlaniya, said a local police officer.


"The attackers disarmed the police, gathered them together and then shot them dead," he said of the Haditha raid.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=3&u=/afp/20041107/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_unrest_041107113613

[jefferson_dem]

11. Fuckin' A. Could things be screwed up any more under Chimp's watch?

[Moderator]

13. Grrrrrr - Yahoo changed the headline again

to:

Iraq Claims Emergency As Insurgency Flares

[maddezmom]

16. MODS: please feel free to lock and repost with current headline

it's getting confusing for all of us. :hug:

[BlueEyedSon]

14. Freedom is on the march!

[FlashHarry]

15. Headline now: Iraq Declares Martial Law, 23 Police Killed

[Moderator]

17. With all the confusion ( and duplicates)

on the headline changes - locking this one.
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