Iraq Rebels Hit Back Amid Falluja Battles

[denverbill]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=4&u=/nm/20041111/ts_nm/iraq_dc

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. troops fought to crush resistance in the Iraqi city of Falluja on Thursday, but rebels hit back with an armed rampage in Mosul and a car bomb that killed 17 people in a crowded Baghdad street.
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Marines had to call in four air strikes after taking heavy fire at their headquarters in central Falluja, the BBC reported. Its correspondent with the Marines said a rifle company had come under continuous fire when it pushed out of the base into the city on a house-to-house search for insurgents.

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And insurgents in the northern city of Mosul set police stations ablaze, stole weapons and brazenly roamed the streets.

Residents said Iraq's third largest city seemed to slide out of control as grenade blasts and gunfire rang through empty streets and smoke billowed from two burning police stations.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Mission accomplised indeed

[denverbill]

2. Well, who would have possibly guessed THAT would happen?

We warn them 3 weeks ago we're coming, we say 'if you aren't a terrorist, you're free to go', we pull troops out of 'quiet' cities, we start our operation and boom, some other city blows up all to hell.

It's almost as if they knew what we were going to do in advance and decided to do something about it.

Where are all the damned flower grenades and improvised rose-petal scattering devices?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. "It's almost as if they knew what we were going to do in advance"

Of course they do. Know it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. You forgot the C-4 coated chocololate

[jrthin]

4. Hmmmm. Indeed, thing

are really going well. As ** says, the "battle is being won."