Heavy Firing Heard on Edges of Baghdad

[Khephra]

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The rumble of heavy explosions was heard after sundown Tuesday in the Iraqi capital as it appeared U.S. forces were launching another operation against Iraqi insurgents.

The explosions, apparently heavy weapons firing, seemed to come from the western edge of the city and could be heard in the center of the capital about 8:40 p.m..

snip....

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-firing,0,5345699.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

[Gloria]

1. CNN at the top of the hour (noon et) finished

off by showing a night scene and saying it was the Operation Hammer thing....

[Don_G]

2. It's Been Night For A Couple Of Hours Now

http://www.die.net/earth/

[RobertSeattle]

3. Another warehouse bites the Dust?

The insurgents (or whoever they are) will probably lay low for the next few days until our "counter" has runs its course and then just begin new attacks on US troops.

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. What the hell

is left there to blow up? And how many innocent civilian casualties are there? There's got to be a better way. If the only solution to any problem is war, then things will just get worse and worse.

[LeftHander]

5. Operation Hammer Time....

"can't touch this..."

Hope this war lasts as long as MC Hammers career....


oooo that was cold...

[MrPrax]

6. Silly Insurgents...

They're just being stubborn and don't want to take their 'freedom' medicen
Americans turn Tikrit into Iraq's own West Bank
By Phil Reeves in Awja

18 November 2003

It is the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but transported to Iraq. A town is imprisoned by razor wire. The entrance is guarded by soldiers, protected by sand bags, concrete barricades and a machine-gun nest.
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"We were asleep," recalled Mohammed Shakr al-Nassiri, 33, a shopkeeper. "We did hear some work going on during the night. When we got up, we found all this barbed wire around us. We don't understand the point of it. Why us? There's been resistance all over Iraq." In the case of Awja, the Americans appear to have resorted to this strategy after concluding they have no hope of winning over the people.
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The Americans have decided they have little to lose by sealing the town off in the hope that it will stifle guerrilla activity. Residents seem to think the approach is doomed to fail. A young policeman said over the wire barricade: "It will make the resistance stronger. Even those who did not fight when the Americans came to Iraq are being pushed to join the resistance."
..more

And this from an Iraqi cop?


http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=464771