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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 02:35 AM
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Combat Operations in New Orleans & Fighting Insurgency!!!!


http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1077495.php
September 02, 2005

Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans

By Joseph R. Chenelly
Times staff writer


NEW ORLEANS — Combat operations are underway on the streets “to take this city back” in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
“This place is going to look like Little Somalia,” Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard’s Joint Task Force told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge prepared to launch a massive citywide security mission from a staging area outside the Louisiana Superdome. “We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control.”


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While some fight the insurgency in the city, other carry on with rescue and evacuation operations. Helicopters are still pulling hundreds of stranded people from rooftops of flooded homes.


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Tyranny_R_US Donating Member (988 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 02:37 AM
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1. Take the City from who?
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 02:40 AM
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3. Just what I what I was thinking,
:shrug:
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 08:10 AM
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13. It's an ancient technique in war
Clear the land, salt the fields.
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 02:40 AM
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4. From Amercans, the new insurgents. Who else? nt
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MSgt213 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 02:41 AM
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8. From the darkies. That's the mentality your dealing with here. People
desperate for help have to depend on over reacting assholes for that help.
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hiley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 02:38 AM
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2. makes me furious
but we knew this would be coming right?
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 02:41 AM
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6. For me? About 4 years now. nt
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shraby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 02:41 AM
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5. The date on that is Sept. 2, which would have been
Edited on Mon Sep-05-05 02:42 AM by shraby
Friday. That was the day Bushco was trying to get Landrieu to sign a release so the feds could take over the Louisiana National Guard. She didn't do it, so the plans in this article didn't go through. At least I don't think they could be carried out.
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 02:43 AM
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9. This is from the Army Times and it says, Combat operations ARE underway.
Edited on Mon Sep-05-05 02:44 AM by OmmmSweetOmmm
I don't know about the technicalities, but according to this, they were already in action.
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craychek Donating Member (173 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 02:41 AM
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7. oh my goodness
insurgency in the US.. that's a bad sign... what does that say about leadership? The people you lead reflect your leadership... hmmmmmmmmmmm...
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MnFats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 02:52 AM
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10. Gee, D'ya think anyone is spoiling for a fight?
"little Somalia" indeed.
He wants a fight; he's sure to find one.
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:55 AM
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11. Kick! nt
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MadeinOhio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 07:59 AM
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12. Rumsfeld's there too now, fighting the insurgency of Americans.....
Aka the "darkies", gee I guess the military always needs a new enemy. :eyes: :grr: :grr:

These racist bastards need to resign.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 08:29 AM
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14. What's the status of these combat operations in NO?
Posse comitatus suspended. What's going on with all of this as of Monday?

Anyone got an update?
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 09:18 AM
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15. There hasn't been an update at Army Times and I believe this is
the original source of this report.
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