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Title    Rebels return to 'cleared' areas (Fallujah)
Date    Thursday December 02, @09:33PM
Author    admin
Topic    Iraq
from the stalingrad dept.
http://globalfreepress.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/03/0734212

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1203/p06s02-woiq.html

In Fallujah, US forces are going through 50,000 houses one by one. But Iraqi insurgents are coming back.

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Iraqi civilians are not expected to be permitted to begin returning to the badly damaged city until mid-December, and extensive damage to virtually every house and building across Fallujah means that detailed US and Iraqi government plans for rebuilding will take months, at least, to realize.

But the original problem persists: US forces sweep through one neighborhood after another, only to find insurgents popping up in "cleared" areas.

The battle Monday killed one marine and wounded three others - a high cost against three insurgents, who had moved into a house 50 feet across the street from a newly established marine position at a Fallujah fire station. That house and several others nearby had been cleared just two days earlier.

more...

btw: about that image... it's not a photoshop but marketing 'GENIOUS' ;->

Yeah, it's tempting to just write this monstrosity off to typically dismal Nova Scotian taste in backdrops, but Dan Fromkin straightens us out: "Bush, before his speech in Halifax, sitting next to a White-House designed backdrop featuring President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill." Yes, ignore the Dantean implications of the color scheme, concentrate instead on how it looks like he's sitting with people who actually won a war. Not so much "Mission Accomplished" as "In Close Proximity to a Mission Accomplished."

Bush's Charm Offensive [WP]

Source...
http://www.wonkette.com


Links
  1. "more..." - http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1203/p06s02-woiq.html
  2. "Bush's Charm Offensive" - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A28022-2004Dec2?language=printer
  3. "http://www.wonkette.com" - http://www.wonkette.com/politics/media/index.php#standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants-026776
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