Keep up on events with Winds of Change and Chester. It's crunch time at the oasis, insurgents have no where left to surge. Still some fighting ahead and even clean up won't be without incident. But watch the NYT's personal ads - I'm thinkin' Allah's going to have to start advertising for more virgins.
The kid called from Texas tonight - tech school at Lackland. Said he was in San Antoine and was approached by a citizen and thanked - nice to see the uniform respected like that. Susan was showing his pictures while picking up the daughter from work tonight - a young kid at the market expressed a similar sentiment. Oh, and Springsteen and Bon Jovi (fellow New Jersey-ians) can both kiss my ... well, you know. It's about time the late 1960's came to an end.
About 300 people had negotiated their surrender at a mosque in Falluja, he said, and U.S. forces were trying to determine who among them were fighters and who were non-combatants.
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Robert Bodisch was hoping to sweep through Falluja's last rebel bastion when the U.S. tank company commander saw searing red flashes coming from both sides.
Commanding his 70-tonM1A1 Abrams tank from above the turret, he ducked down into the tank as guerrillas ambushed him along a main road through the area Marines call Queens, named after the New York City borough.
"You can tell that the quality of the fighters has improved as we've moved south through the city," said Lt. Steven Berch. "They shoot better, they move better, they cover themselves better."
FALLUJA, Iraq, Nov. 12 - American forces moved into position on Friday for a decisive battle with bands of insurgents, pounding some of their remaining strongholds with airstrikes and repelling attempts by some fighters to shoot their way out through the desert countryside south of the city.
But other fighters, among the most resilient the Americans have encountered in five days of battle, seemed resigned to making a last stand in Falluja's southern residential neighborhoods.
RE: Bon Jovi and Springsteen
My sentiments exactly. No offense, but thank God my dad moved us out of Jersey in the late 1960's. Whenever I come back to visit family there, I feel like I'm in another country.
Posted by: Mr. K | Saturday, November 13, 2004 at 08:58 AM