Deadly U.S. strike near Fallujah

[IndianaGreen]

Who is running the US military in Iraq, Ariel Sharon?

By kicking the Arab press out of Iraq, the US wants no witnesses to the slaughter that it is prepared to unleash on the Iraqi people.

Deadly U.S. strike near Fallujah

Raid in ‘Sunni Triangle’ follows suicide bombing near U.N. HQ

NBC, MSNBC AND NEWS SERVICES

FALLUJAH, Iraq, Sept. 23 — Iraqi police said American forces carried out a combined air and ground attack north of Fallujah early Tuesday, killing three people and wounding three others. The military said it knew of only one death. The raid comes against the backdrop of continuing instability in postwar Iraq, and a day after a suicide car bomber blew himself up near the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, also killing a security guard and wounding 19 other people.

THE FIGHT on Tuesday involved the 82nd Airborne Division and started after U.S. soldiers were attacked, said Spec. Nicole Thompson. She said the attackers ran into a building and ground troops called in air support. One guerrilla fighter was killed.

The incident occurred in the village of al-Jisr, north of Fallujah, one of the most dangerous cities in the so-called “Sunni Triangle,” the region where support for ousted President Saddam Hussein runs strongest and where U.S. troops have met stiffest resistance.

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ARAB TV EVICTED?

In Baghdad Monday, the U.S.-picked Governing Council voted to evict to Arab satellite broadcasting companies from Iraq, said Iraqi National Congress spokesman Entifadh K. Qanbar. The Qatar-based Al-Jazeera and Dubai-based Al-Arabiya have given blanket coverage of events in Iraq, often highly critical of the U.S.-led occupation of the country.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/870749.asp?0cv=CA00

[Judi Lynn]

1. Just tonight I saw Paul Bremer in a Senate hearing on C-Span

as he explained that life is actually returning to normal all over Iraq; that he'd even been asked by Iraqii restaurant owners if the Americans would consider shortening the curfew hours at night so restaurant goers could be allowed to be out a bit longer.

I'm sure that's true.

[teryang]

4. According to Sen. Byrd

Bremer's appearance before the appropriations committee was scheduled for one appearance on a Monday, when it was known that no Senators would be present including Byrd. Byrd had the chairman postpone Bremers appearance to monday afternoon when Byrd could be there.

Apparently, all the Senate (and the American people) are going to get to justify nearly 20 billion in reconstruction expenditures is a few poorly detailed typewritten pages with vague answers from the Viceroy of Baghdad. The repuke chairman of the committee expressed his unconditional committment in the future to give anything of the taxpayers money the former expert on counter terrorism requested.

Let's not forget that this "expert" on counter terrorism lost virtually everyone in his corporations office in the world trade center. This should be some indication of his competence to secure Iraq.

[0007]

2. Go Code Pink Go

Get in Bremer's face and tell him he's got things all wrong.

[IndianaGreen]

3. Update CNN: Coalition airstrikes kill attacker

The CNNstory is extermely misleading, compared to the pictures shown on CNN and the BBC early this morning, there were several civilian casualties.

Coalition airstrikes kill attacker
Bush to address General Assembly on Tuesday
Tuesday, September 23, 2003 Posted: 7:27 AM EDT (1127 GMT)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Coalition airstrikes early Tuesday killed an enemy attacker after members of the 82nd Airborne Division came under fire near Fallujah, west of the Iraqi capital, the Coalition Public Information Center said.

Video from the scene also showed a number of wounded Iraqis on stretchers and at least one crater in the ground.

According to the coalition, the members of 82nd Airborne came under attack near Fallujah -- about 43 miles (70 km) west of Baghdad -- just after 2 a.m. (6 p.m. EDT Monday). Coalition forces pursued their attackers into a building and set up a perimeter around it before air support was called in.

Fallujah is an area that remains a focus of Saddam Hussein and Baath Party loyalists.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/09/23/sprj.irq.main/index.html

[Barrett808]

5. A bit more detail

In Iraq, meanwhile, three Iraqis were killed Tuesday in US military operations, and the Governing Council temporarily barred two leading Arabic satellite channels from covering official activities to punish them for allegedly inciting anti-coalition violence.

Witnesses said that US tanks surrounded the village of Al-Sijr, north of the flashpoint town of Fallujah, and troops opened fire before helicopters launched missiles.

Hospital officials identified three Iraqis killed in the incident, but in a conflicting account, the US military said its troops had come under attack north of Fallujah and returned fire, killing one Iraqi.

Bush urges world support on Iraq amid new reports of bloodshed
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030923/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_worldwrap&cid=1514&ncid=1480

[IndianaGreen]

6. Bush is giving a bad name to the word "occupation"

Bush is making Sharon look like a civil libertarian.

What we have here is genocide, plain and simple!

[TeeYiYi]

7. I'm so glad the war is over in Iraq. I'd sure hate to be reading . . .

. . . stories about death, destruction and mayhem each day instead of the stories of wine and roses we have been so lucky to be privy to . . .

TYY

[dArKeR]

8. Iraq Raid Prompts Finger-Pointing - CBS

A U.S. aircraft fired six missiles into a farm north of Fallujah on Tuesday, killing three men and wounding three others, police and villagers said. The U.S. military said its forces were pursuing guerrillas who attacked soldiers and that it knew of only one person killed.

Two young boys were among the wounded in the attack, and their father and two neighbors were killed, witnesses and neighbors said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/24/iraq/main541815.shtml