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Sgt Sostand
06-19-03, 03:49 PM
Seem like Iraqi start to act up when the Marines left they need to do a good house cleaning over their what do you think ? :devious:

wrbones
06-19-03, 03:54 PM
Put the Marines back on the job, somebody'd be ****tin' and gettin, wouldn't they!

I agree with you. I think the politicos are tryin' to run things a bit too early, myself.

Devildogg4ever
06-19-03, 06:05 PM
I believe thats the only answer, put the Marines back over there and get it over with!! I also agree, they pulled them back too early!

CPLRapoza
06-20-03, 02:49 AM
Y'all couldn't have said it any better. Everytime we leave and the Army takes over everything goes to sh*t.

Sgt Sostand
06-20-03, 06:05 AM
ya things went bad yeaterday they attack a med evac unti and kill 2 people

Sgt Sostand
06-20-03, 09:32 AM
Attacks Continue In Iraqi Town
Insurgents used a rocket propelled grenade to blow up an electrical transformer in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, in the latest sabotage against the infrastructure needed for Iraq's reconstruction. tanks guarding the gates of the power station in Fallujah, 35 miles from Baghdad, returned a barrage of gunfire into the darkness, said the supervisor of the station, Soadad Khalil.
There were no casualties among the soldiers or the station's employees, he said. The explosion around 11:30 p.m. Thursday sent a tower of flames into the night, and the transformer was still smoldering 12 hours later
The attack knocked out one of the two transformers at the power plant, which provides nearly half the electricity to this city of about 75,000 people. Fallujah has been a center of resistance against the coalition occupation of Iraq.

Khalil said it was possible the rocket was intended for the American tanks but missed and slammed into the transformer behind them. Employees were assessing the damage to see what could be salvaged.

Sabotage against power and water installations has been a key element of the anti-American resistance, which has been growing in recent days despite U.S. officials insistence that it is not being organized centrally.

Despite efforts to increase electricity generation, the U.N. Development Program reported Thursday that power delivery to Baghdad fell to 800 megawatts from 1300 megawatts two weeks ago. It attributed the fall to the sabotage of power lines and breakdowns caused by daytime temperatures reaching 113 degrees Fahrenheit.

Daily attacks against the U.S.-led coalition have grown increasingly lethal in the last week. On Thursday, assailants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a military ambulance south of Baghdad, killing one American and wounding two others. He was the third soldier to die from hostile fire this week alone.

Two men fired an rocket-propelled grenade at a tank late Wednesday in Samarra north of the capital, causing little damage and no casualties. One attacker was killed and the second captured.

Attackers also fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a U.S. tank north of Baghdad, and a U.S. Army truck was set on fire in the western part of the capital. The military reported that three mortar shells hit outside a coalition-run aid office in the town of Samarra on Tuesday, killing one Iraqi and wounding 12.

The guerrilla-style attacks came as U.S. forces conducted house-to-house searches for weapons and arrested hundreds of people across Iraq.

Sound Off.....What do you think we should do to curb these attacks? Join the

Devildogg4ever
06-20-03, 05:26 PM
It can get ya so p*ssed sometimes, just setting here not able to do anything!! Ya know ya can still kick a** and ya can't do a thing!

I need to kick ........ hey, where are the protesters, now, I could .......

lurchenstein
06-21-03, 02:48 AM
Evacuate the friendlies, then rain RPG's on Fallujah.
Now you can have yer RPG and eat it too!

Sgt Sostand
06-21-03, 05:41 PM
well i think some people you cant help so in that case you just kill them. they drop arms just to pick them up and attack again and again

yellowwing
06-21-03, 08:37 PM
I do not envy anyone trying to come up with occupational policy. The latest raids seem to be a step in the right direction in quelling organized attacks. I think it will take nothing less than dragging Saddam's corpse thought the dusty streets to drive the message home.

We've done our part. The only thing else we can conrtibute is a final raid that will get that SOB in chains. A Lance God leading around a beaten Saddam would do wonders!

That would be another IOU that the CMC can take to congress!

Roberto T. Cast
06-21-03, 10:56 PM
I disagree with some of you. Do not put back our Marines. Let the Army of one learn to do it the right way. We did the hard job. By GOD, can't the Army of One do anything right. Our Marines encountered a lot of fighting on their way to Bagdad. Our Marines have suffered their share of KIA and wounded. Remember one of our tradition: First to Fight, First in the hearts of our countrymen.

LOOK OUT IRAN, the :marine::marine: ARE COMING. :banana:

Sgt Sostand
06-24-03, 06:49 PM
6 more die today a bad day for me. This thing is far from beaing over

Six British troops killed in Iraq
Six British military police were killed Tuesday in the deadliest incident for coalition forces since major combat was declared over in Iraq, British Defense Secretary Geoffrey Hoon said
In the first attack six Royal Military Police involved in training local police were killed near the city of al-Amarah, about 120 miles (200 kilometers) north of Iraq's second city of Basra Tuesday.

Local information suggests it may be related to an incident at the town police station

In the second incident a eight troops were injured during a routine patrol in the same area -- one in an initial clash and seven other Quick Reaction Force troops when their RAF Chinook helicopter came under fire in an attempted rescue.

Three of the injured are in a serious condition, and two have been taken to a U.S. field hospital in Kuwait for specialist treatment.

The ministry has said it would not provide any further details until the next of kin had been informed but it is investigating whether the incidents are related.

British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon told the House of Commons the UK's role in Iraq would "not be deflected by the enemies of peace."

An earlier statement from the MoD said: "We very much regret to confirm that in one incident, six British personnel have been killed.

"In the second incident, troops from 1 Para patrolling south of Al Amarah came under fire."

The team of paras traveling in two vehicles were attacked Tuesday morning from a number of gunmen using rocket propelled grenades, heavy machine-guns and rifle fire.

The troops returned fire and called for assistance and a troop of Scimitar vehicles, a Chinook helicopter and extra troops were sent and also came under fire, said Hoon.

The MoD statement added: "The patrol took one casualty and two vehicles were destroyed. In responding to the incident, an RAF Chinook helicopter carrying a Quick Reaction Force came under fire as it landed. Seven personnel on board the helicopter were wounded, three of them seriously."

The bodies of six members of the Royal Military Police were recovered from Al Majar Al Kabir during the afternoon.

Hoon warned against speculation with regards the attacks and cautioned against reaching wider conclusions about the security situation in southern Iraq.

The British deaths were the first since early May, when a soldier was killed in a traffic accident. Baghdad had fallen to the U.S.-led coalition in April.

British soldiers have been patrolling the southern city of Basra without helmets and flak jackets.

British casualties have been light compared to the U.S., where almost a soldier has been killed everyday since the declared end to the war on May 1.


Nineteen U.S. troops have been killed in hostile action with another 37 dead in what are described as non-hostile incidents, the Pentagon said.

In the latest string of attacks, a U.S. solider was wounded and three Iraqis were killed Tuesday in a small arms firefight at a checkpoint in Ramadi, U.S. Central Command said in a statement. Two Iraqis were wounded, it added.

In al Daura, east of Baghdad, a military police vehicle was hit by a grenade Monday, but bounced off and exploded under a civilian vehicle, wounding two Iraqis.

And in Fallujah, considered by coalition forces to be a hotbed of anti-U.S. resentment and home to some remaining supporters of former president Saddam Hussein's regime, a group of Iraqis fired rocket-propelled grenades at U.S. troops protecting a power plant Monday, witnesses said. (Full Story)

U.S. forces have launched Operation Desert Scorpion to crack down on such attacks, confiscating weapons, including two AK-47s, one rocket-propelled grenade, three pistols, two rifles and 100 hand grenades.