The People Of Falllujah Speak: "Watching Tragedy Engulf My City"

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The People Of Falllujah Speak: "Watching Tragedy Engulf My City"
Nov 10, 2004
Source: BBC

The BBC News website spoke by phone to Fadhil Badrani, a journalist in Falluja who reports for the BBC World Service in Arabic. Here is her account.

"I am surrounded by thick black smoke and the smell of burning oil.

There was a big explosion a few minutes ago and now I can hear gunfire.

A US armoured vehicle has been parked on the street outside my house in the centre of the city.

From my window, I can see US soldiers moving around on foot near it.

They tried to go from house to house but they kept coming under fire.

Now they are firing back at the houses, at anything that moves. It is war on the streets.

The American troops look like they have given up trying to go into buildings for now and are just trying to control the main roads.

I am sitting here on my own, watching tragedy engulf my city.

Looks Like Kabul

I was with some of the Falluja fighters earlier. They looked tired - but their spirits were high and they were singing.

Recently, many Iraqis from other parts of the country have been joining the local men against the Americans.

No one has had much sleep in the past two days of heavy fighting and of course, it is still Ramadan, so no one eats during the day.

I cannot say how many people have been killed but after two days of bombing, this city looks like Kabul.

Large portions of it have been destroyed but it is so dangerous to leave the house that I have not been able to find out more about casualties.

Mosques Silent

A medical dispensary in the city centre was bombed earlier.

I don't know what has happened to the doctors and patients who were there.

It was last place you could get medical attention because the big hospital on the outskirts of Falluja was captured by the Americans on Monday.

A lot of the mosques have also been bombed.

For the first time in Falluja, a city of 150 mosques, I did not hear a single call to prayer this morning.

I broke my Ramadan fast yesterday with the last of our food - two potatoes and two tomatoes.

The tomatoes were rotten because we have no electricity to run the fridge.

My neighbours - a woman and her children - came to see me yesterday. They asked me to tell the world what is happening here.

I look at the devastation around me and ask - why?"

[Jerusalem]

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Middle East - AP
Wed Nov 10,11:05 AM ET

NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq - Iraqi troops have found "hostage slaughterhouses" in Fallujah where foreign captives were held and killed, the commander of Iraqi forces in the city said Wednesday.

Troops found CDs and documents of people taken captive in houses in the northern part of Fallujah, Maj. Gen. Abdul Qader Mohammed Jassem Mohan told reporters.

The most notorious abductions in Iraq (news - web sites) have been by the al-Qaida-linked group led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was believed to be in Fallujah but who commanders now say likely fled the city before the huge offensive launched this week by U.S. and Iraqi forces.

Mohan did not say that remains of captives were found and did not comment on whether the houses were believed linked to al-Zarqawi or any of several other militant groups that have claimed kidnappings.

"We have found hostage slaughterhouses in Fallujah that were used by these people and the black clothing that they used to wear to identify themselves, hundreds of CDs and whole records with names of hostages," the general said at a military camp near Fallujah.

Mohan was unsure if the hostage records included the names of any of the at least nine foreigners still in the hands of kidnappers — most notably, British aid worker Margaret Hassan, French journalists Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot and two Americans.

"I did not look closely" at the documents, he said.

More than 170 foreigners have been kidnapped this year, and more than 30 of them have been killed by their captors.

Al-Zarqawi's followers have beheaded three Americans, two Britons, a Japanese and a South Korean, usually releasing grisly videos showing the decapitations.

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The First Casualty of War Is: The Casualty Figures
Nov 11, 2004
By Yamin Zakaria

“And when it is said unto them: Do not make mischief in the earth, they say, we are only peacemakers” (Al-Koran 2:11)

So, in the name of peace, they have been terrorising the innocents, committing mass murder and pillaging their resources as billions of oil revenue are still unaccounted for. In occupied Palestine, the same story, the ones who constantly cries wolf about being victims and desiring peace have been busy ethnic cleansing the natives to pave the way for God’s ‘chosen’ people. Indeed making mischief has been their primary occupation: metaphorically and literally, as each inch by inch more and more lands are confiscated!

Is this what is happening in Fallujah now? The accuracy of the answer lies in getting independent information directly from the city itself. One of these independent sources is the medical doctors. As they deal with the victims of the US ‘precision’ bombings, verifying if they are Iraqi freedom fighters or women and children. This is what they did during the previous US incursion into Fallujah back in April.

The hospitals and the mass graves have previously provided the facts on how many innocent women and children perished by the ‘surgical’ US strikes. No analysts or spin doctors are required as the victims are there. Even the reporters from Fox-TV, BBC, Reuters and CNN would find it difficult to conceal these facts, of course that is only if they were there in the first place instead of being embedded within the US forces - literally. Perhaps by now they have even attained military ranks!

The US claimed the figures were inflated but never attempted to substantiate their claims by verifying the dead victims lying in the graves of Fallujah. Therefore, in order to prevent independent verification of the Iraqi casualty figures, in addition to gagging independent media outlets, this time the US raided the main hospital, destroyed other health centres and prohibited the use of ambulances before launching the full scale attack. Electricity and water supplies have also been cut off making it impossible to treat the wounded ones that are already in the hospitals. This is clearly a violation of the fourth Geneva Convention and the world is silent about this sheer US-hypocrisy and brutality.

Another source of independent information is acquiring multiple eyewitness accounts from the Iraqi civilians which would make the story impossible to be fabricated. Many eyewitnesses reported the burning of many Abram tanks, Bradleys and other US vehicles; even a Reuter’s reporter witnessed and reported a helicopter being turned into a fireball after it was hit by a rocket. That incident was denied by the US and none of this information received the same level of amplification as the Pentagon press releases, which is aired by the pro-US mass media as undisputed facts.

Even a cursory scan of the pro-US mass media shows the inconsistency and the blatant propaganda. All the pictures of the US troops shown on TV yesterday were in the outskirts of Fallujah but all the main stream press reported that the US forces have taken control of the centre of the city. While the resistance strategy is to draw the US forces into the urban areas for a close combat where they have a better chance as some of the technological and the overwhelming US firepower is rendered less effective, photos showed the US forces on the outskirts.

Then comes the issue of US casualties, the number of daily attacks launched by the Iraqi freedom fighters has gone up from around 50 a day to over 100 a day, yet according to the official figures US casualty has declined or remained steady at best! On the 9th of November, according to Reuters [1], a US Marine reported that 50 of his comrades coupled with the 5 US marines witnessed by a Reuter’s reporter were taken wounded but the overall wounded reported today is less than 55!

Similarly AFP reported [2] that the US casualties are mounting but how can that be when according to the same news source US forces only lost around 12 men. Insignificant, when you consider it has 15,000 troops in this operation. Maybe reports like that are trying to tell us something but are unable to reveal the whole truth. Moreover, whilst the battle in Fallujah raged none of the mainstream TV news channels reported the US retreat in Ramadi after facing a fierce attack launched by the Iraqi resistance.

Discrepancy between the words of the ordinary US soldiers and the PR mouthpieces of the Pentagon conveyed by the likes of Reuters, CNN, BBC and others are blatantly obvious. The latter reported the easy capitulation of the Iraqi resistance in Fallujah yet the US soldiers on the ground admit facing fierce resistance in other reports. Al Jazeera in fact reported [3] that after they had entered the city around 12.00 midnight, facing ferocious resistance they withdrew to the northern part of the city. A report corroborated with other independent news sources. Perhaps that is also the reason for the absence of US media coverage from inside Fallujah.

No one is denying the US penetration into the city, sooner or later but what is in dispute is: how and why that is talking place. Mujahideen wants the US forces deeper into the city for close combat, making their air power and heavy artillery less effective. If the casualty figures are as low as what the US claims how is it that for the for the last six months, many of the US military experts and independent analysts have commented on a shortage of US troops to deal the situation within Iraq.

There are possibly two explanations for this and they are complementary not mutually exclusive. The Iraqi resistance is popular and growing, not confined to a fringe minority. Indeed how could they survive along with their brothers (not foreign fighters) from other Muslim countries without the support of the masses? And the US in reality has incurred much larger levels of losses than what has been stated publicly. The officially touted figure of around 1100 killed with 8000 injured from the entire contingent of 130,000. This is not even 10% however there is a shortage of troops.

To answer the initial question, what is happening in Fallujah is sheer barbarism and Israeli style collective punishment. News of US forces using chemical weapons against the Iraqi resistance has also coming through the independent media outlet Islam online. So that is where the WMDs are! Perhaps this is why there has been little mass media coverage from inside Fallujah. Thus, the US soldiers have once again exposed their cowardice. Only cowards attack a civilian population and its infrastructure indiscriminately using massive air power, artillery and now chemical weapons. A trait of a coward is to torture prisoners whose hands are tied like we saw in places like Abu-Ghraib.

On the contrary, how many US soldiers would stand and fight against the Mujahideen without their night vision, heavy armour and total air domination? The media is so desperate to match its inflated image of the GI-Joes with the reality; they have even resorted to lies as the Private Jessica Lynch fiasco proved to be the case.

The latest spin is that the US forces have found a hostage slaughter-house in Fallujah, which is laughable when the whole town and country has been turned into one big slaughter-house by the US forces and their collaborators. Any American with an ounce of humanity in them should be hiding their faces in shame, even if they see only part of the reality in Iraq.

With Al-Jazeera and other Arab media outlets also out of the way, hospitals demolished, medics killed, no one will be there this time to verify the scale of the slaughter of the US forces. Truth indeed is the first casualty of this war, and part of this is the distortion of the casualty figures. But the truth always finds a way out, sooner of later.

Yamin Zakaria


[1]http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=US2BKUCFFTVVUCRBAEOCF FA?type=topNews&storyID=6761616

[2] http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/15D9C2F7-6130-40F0-9BC7-AA126D8C8ED8.htm

[3] http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6E722418-6B50-4D2A-93E1-77C9A8FC6DAC.htm

[aboomohammad]

Did any one hear about the 227 seriously wounded American soldiers who have been transported to the German military hospital.I heard there are many more one the way.I also heard they were only the casualties of the recent three day assault on Fallujah.I have only one thing to say
Bring 'em on!
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Salams
In the name of Allah most Gracious most merciful

I have noticed that it has become a habit of the aggressors and oppressors to attack muslim land especially in Ramadhan.
This to me is a sign and a reminder of, the Historic Battle of Badr.The first battle of Islam and a very decisive one in the history of Islam.Had the muslims lost that Battle then The disbeleivers would have wiped Islam of the surface of the Earth,
· “O Allâh! Should this group (of Muslims) be defeated today, You will no longer be worshipped.”

but,they plan and Allah plans, Allah is the greatset of planners.The muslim at the time of badr were weak and poor,Armed with only a few weapons and a few camels,313 men some with no shoes even in their feet took on the mighty thousand of the disbeleivers.The Muslims had one thing that the Disbelivers did not have Full trust and conviction in Allah alone.The Chapter of Al-Anfal (spoils of war) was revealed on the occasion of the battle of Badr, Ramadan 17th 2 A.H. It constituted a unique Divine commentary on this battle.

· “And remember when you were few and were reckoned weak in the land, and were afraid that men might kidnap you, but He provided a safe place for you, strengthened you with His help, and provided you with good things so that you might be grateful.” [8:26]

He( mohamed peace be upon him) was commanding the army, inspiring confidence among his men and exhorting them to fight manfully for the sake of their Lord, reciting the Words of Allâh:

The spirit he infused into his men was clearly witnessed by the valour of ‘Umair, a lad of sixteen, who flung away some dates he was eating crying out: “These (the dates) are holding me back from Paradise.” So saying he plunged into the thick of the battle and died fighting bravely. Unique deeds of valour, deep devotion and full obedience to the Prophet (Peace be upon him) were exhibited in the process of the battle. The army of the faithfuls was borne forward by the power of enthusiasm which the half-hearted warriors of Makkah miserably lacked. A large number of the polytheists were killed and the others began to waver. No wonder! The standard-bearers of Truth were given immediate help, and supernatural agencies (the angels), were sent to their assistance by their Lord to help them defeat the forces of evil.
Allah promised them the Help with 1000 angels who desceded and helped the muslims.
· “I will help you with a thousand of the angels each behind the other (following one another) in succession.” [8:9]

The records of Hadith speak eloquently of the fact that the angels did appear on that day and fought on the side of the Muslims. Ibn ‘Abbas said: “While on that day a Muslim was chasing a disbeliever and he heard over him the swashing of a whip and the voice of the rider saying: ‘Go ahead Haizum’. He glanced at the polytheist who had (now) fallen down on his back. The Helper came to the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) and related that event to him. The Prophet (Peace be upon him) replied: ‘You have told the truth. This was the help from the third heaven.”

One of the Helpers captured ‘Abbas bin ‘Abdul Muttalib, who said: “O Messenger of Allâh, by Allâh this man did not capture me. I was captured by a man who was bald and had the most handsome face, and who was riding a piebald horse, I cannot see him here among the people.” The Helper interrupted: “I captured him, O Messenger of Allâh.” The Prophet (Peace be upon him) replied:

· “Be quiet, Allâh the All-Mighty strengthened you with the help of a noble angel.”

Today history as as usual repeats itself. The army of Muslimss weak and a few, but their conviction in Allah very strong and their faith In ramadhan strenghened. And as Allah is the greates of palnners he sent help for the MuslimsAt the instance of Gabriel, the Prophet (Peace be upon him) took a handful of gravel, cast it at the enemy and said: “Confusion seize their faces!” As he flung the dust, a violent sandstorm blew like furnace blast into the eyes of the enemies. With respect to this, Allâh says:

· “And you [i.e. Muhammad (Peace be upon him) ] threw not when you did throw but Allâh threw.” [8:17]

· “Their multitude will be put to flight, and they will show their backs.” [54:45]

Yes no matter how much power they have the forces of evil are having a tough time fighting a small group of Muslims in fallujah.Badr revisted, the help of allah in Tamadhan through the duahs of the Muslims all around the world and the tears of the Mothers of those killled . So make strong duah in this month of blessing and even after and we will see the results.Those muslims martyred in this month earn double blessings, that of Ramadhan and that of Martyrdom in the way of Allah.

· “Verily, I am with you, so keep firm those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved.” [8:12]

They say approximately 3 to 400 hundred seriously injured American soldiers are expected in an american military Hospital in GermanyThis week end." 227 have already arrived there and more are expected.And 2 Helicopters have been down and more to go insha Allah.

Verily,..........I will cast terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved[8:12]·

“Allâh is Great, praise is to Allâh, Who has fulfilled His Promise, assisted His servant and defeated the confederates alone.”

So keep the duahs going brothers and sisters and we will overfill all western hospitals with the enemies of Allah and Put fear in their hearts and make them go back home without limbs or in body bags.


Takbir:Allah u akbar

Takbir:Allah u akbar

Takbir:Allah u akbar


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So keep the duahs going brothers and sisters and we will overfill all western hospitals with the enemies of Allah and Put fear in their hearts and make them go back home without limbs or in body bags.

There's that Islamic peace at work. So, how many more kidnapping of innocent reconstruction workers and throat slitting in the name of your allah can we expect?

Matthew 24:4-11, "And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many."

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YHWH is God, and there is no other. YHWH has declared:

Isaiah 43:10-14, "Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God. Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it? Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel;"

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If anybody didnt know what is going on in Fauloja but only from American Media ..... I hope these pics. will enlight him ...may be ...!!!!

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BRING THEM HOME NOW!



Navy hospital corpsman 3rd class Dennis Astor, 22, of Escondido, CA. at combat hospital near Fallujah. Astor suffered burns and other injuries in Saturday's car bombing near here that killed 8 marines and wounded nine. (AP Photo/Jim Krane)





“The Army Does Not Like To Pay”

Hurt Part-Time Soldiers Treated Like Shit

October 23, 2004 By MONICA DAVEY, NY Times



Specialist Keith Bond, another guardsman waiting at Fort Lewis, whose family lives near Sergeant Elliott's in Moses Lake, said he had considered going home. "I did the war," he said. "I got the T-shirt, you know? I've had enough. My family's had enough."



FORT LEWIS, Wash. - Staff Sgt. Jeffrey A. Elliott returned to this country with a back injury after his unarmored truck hit a roadside bomb in Iraq. Yet 15 months later, he still has not made it home for good.



A member of the Washington National Guard, Sergeant Elliott is hoping to finish whatever treatments may soothe the degenerating disk in his back and for the military to complete the paperwork for his case, now promised within weeks. He is living out of a suitcase in a barracks while his wife and children wait, 220 miles away.



Under a web of Army rules, Sergeant Elliott and thousands of other part-timers injured on duty are navigating a system suited to full-time soldiers. Most are required to stay on a military base to get government medical treatment, to collect their active-duty salaries and to finish military evaluations that will decide whether they return to duty or leave with severance or disability payments.



Recently, after The New York Times made inquiries about him, he learned that his discharge paperwork from the military had been completed and that he would be able to go home within weeks. He said he feared that if he left before then, his family could not survive without his active-duty pay.



Still, he said, the idea was oddly tempting, especially as strains at home mounted. He feels detached from decisions made in his own house, he said. His wife has come to rely on a girlfriend as her closest confidante.



"It feels not too much different than being deployed all over again," Sergeant Elliott said.



Many of the injured say they have grown embittered from being away from home so long. Some see the extended separations as one more indication that military leaders consider the needs of part-time soldiers - once taunted as weekend warriors - as less important than those of the full-time troops.



They view themselves as casualties not just of bombs and heart attacks and ankle twists, but also of poor planning for a war that is increasingly being fought by the nation's part-time military.



Sergeant Elliott's wife, Penny, is raising their three children, the youngest of whom thinks anyone on the other end of a telephone line must be her father, because Sergeant Elliott has been calling home for most of her two years of life.



"Having him in Iraq was hard enough," said Ms. Elliott, home in Moses Lake, Wash. "When he got hurt, I said, 'Well, at least he can come home now, and get better here with us.' But it's this strange thing. He came home, but he's not home at all."



Officials at Fort Lewis say many of their injured part-time soldiers live near the base, which is 45 miles from Seattle.



But data from the office of the Army's surgeon general show that some Oregon guardsmen, for example, are recovering in Fort Bliss, Tex.; some part-time soldiers from Wyoming and Florida are on medical holdover in Fort Dix, N.J.; and a handful of New Jersey troops are at Fort Riley, Kan.



The loneliest and the impatient can elect to go home, even if they still need medical attention. But that can be an expensive trade-off; military rules dictate that they lose their active-duty salaries even though they may still be too injured or ill to return to their civilian jobs.



Someone who leaves active duty and seeks treatment from his own doctors qualifies for military medical insurance, known as Tricare, for only six months. Advocates for the National Guard say one in five guardsmen lacks medical insurance from his regular job, leaving no room for health problems that may linger.



Specialist Keith Bond, another guardsman waiting at Fort Lewis, whose family lives near Sergeant Elliott's in Moses Lake, said he had considered going home. "I did the war," he said. "I got the T-shirt, you know? I've had enough. My family's had enough."



Specialist Bond, 31, spent almost a year in Iraq before he came back to this country with pains in his foot and uncertainty about what they meant. Eventually, he said, military doctors found an unusual break in a bone at the top of his foot, a spot that had broken years ago.



Much as he wants to go home, Specialist Bond said he felt the Army was responsible for repairing his foot and worried that he could not handle his job mixing chemicals at General Dynamics while walking with a large medical boot that encases his leg.



He said he went home as often as he could slip away from Fort Lewis, but described the complications of cramming fatherhood into scattered weekend visits. His son, Dylan, 2, does not seem to recognize him. Specialist Bond's wife, Angelicque, described the look Dylan sometimes gives when seeing his father: "Who is this person? Why is he in my home?"



And their daughter, Alexa, 4, stopped eating after her father came home from Iraq but moved to Fort Lewis. "There was no explaining it to her why Dad was back, but living over there," Ms. Bond said. "She kept saying, 'No, the Army is going to keep him.' " Alexa had lost nine pounds by the time Ms. Bond took her to a doctor.



"There are the few people out there who aren't injured, but who are just trying to get out of the service and get into the disability system," Ms. Bond said. That may make doctors doubt the legitimate cases, she continued, adding: "But there's another factor, too, that makes them want to doubt, and that's this: The Army does not like to pay."



Lingering just under the surface of these soldiers' complaints is a broader issue. They see a bias against part-timers, one that has seeped through everything over years of "weekend warrior" status.



Representative Darlene Hooley, Democrat of Oregon, has criticized the military over the past year for what she found when she visited Oregon guardsmen training to go overseas: mold-ridden barracks, faulty weapons and a lack of food, toilet paper, soap and hand-held radios.



Even among the injured, some part-time soldiers insist there is a pecking order. When they go for appointments at the Fort Lewis medical center, they say, they are always asked which service they are in, Guard, Reserves or regular.



"Why would they need to know that? I thought we were an army of one," said Sgt. Jay Hemenway, a guardsman who went to Fort Lewis in March 2003 and whose family lives three hours away, in Salem, Ore.



Sergeant Hemenway said he went to the orthopedic department not long ago, and watched as another soldier walked in, identified himself as a full-time soldier and got an appointment right away. "If you're the National Guard, you're on the back burner, forgotten," he said.



Sergeant Hemenway is starting the process of being considered for discharge from the military. Before he was called up, he was a maintenance man in the apartment complex his wife manages, but he doubts he will ever be able to paint or plaster or move refrigerators again.



From her office in Salem, his wife, LoAnn D. Brandenberger-Hemenway, looked out at her gold Ford Mustang, its window papered with stickers: "Support Our Troops" and "Freedom Is Not Free." She said that she was proud of her husband when he was called to duty, but that was 19 months ago and he has lived at Fort Lewis ever since.



"This has gotten ridiculous," Ms. Brandenberger-Hemenway said.



When he visits home, she said, he sometimes seems impatient, frustrated, testy. "Don't they say a person heals better when they are surrounded by love?" she asked. "If anything, he's getting worse up there. By the time he comes to visit, we have to walk around on eggshells here."



When her husband left, Ms. Brandenberger-Hemenway decorated the outside of her office with yellow ribbons, but they grew dingy and frayed with passing months. Not long ago, she took them down.



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BUSH’S HELL:

BRING THEM ALL HOME NOW!



A US Marine of the 1st Division outside Fallujah Oct. 30, 2004. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)





NCOs Led Mississippi Guards “Rebellion”

“They Just Decided Enough Was Enough”



The platoon's noncommissioned officers rebelled with the support of the enlisted men and demanded a meeting with the battalion commander about their grievances, said fellow soldiers from the platoon.



October 22, 2004 SCOTT TYNES, DAILY LEADER Staff Writer



Three soldiers of the Army National Guard's 155th Infantry Battalion, training at Camp Shelby, were detained and the leadership of their platoon dispersed among other platoons in the battalion following an Oct. 6 incident in which noncommissioned officers of the platoon refused to conduct training, soldiers say.



Two NCOs and a private first class of a scout platoon, based in Natchez, were detained overnight for their alleged roles in what several members of the platoon say was a protest of training conditions at Camp Shelby.



The platoon's noncommissioned officers rebelled with the support of the enlisted men and demanded a meeting with the battalion commander about their grievances, said fellow soldiers from the platoon.



The soldiers spoke to The DAILY LEADER on condition of anonymity, fearing reprisal from the military command. All of the soldiers involved in the incident had been warned not to discuss it with the media.



Maj. Greg Michel, executive officer of the 155th, on Wednesday acknowledged the incident but did not give specific details.



"The NCOs of that platoon disobeyed a direct order from an officer - their platoon leader - to conduct training," Michel said. "It was a lawful order. There's no excuse for that. Ever." [Go fuck yourself Michel. There are plenty of times and plenty of good reasons, and you’re full of shit right up to the eyes. Just be very very grateful you’re not in a combat zone, with all those weapons in the hands of people around you who see things differently. Never know what can happen in a firefight.]



Col. Leon Collins, brigade commander of the 155th Brigade Combat Team, also confirmed the incident without going into specifics, citing an ongoing investigation by the 155th Infantry Battalion commander, Lt. Col. John Rhodes.



"It would be premature for me to say anything at all about that situation," Collins said. "It's also a privacy issue for the soldiers. I don't want to give any information out on them that might embarrass them later."



Collins did, however, confirm that three soldiers were detained following the incident and that they have returned to the battalion to continue their training. He did not say if they had returned to their platoon or were reassigned.



Michel on Wednesday told The DAILY LEADER that the NCOs still had not rejoined their platoon.



"The NCOs were separated pending the results of the investigation," Michel said. Following the probe, "a decision will be made whether or not to return those individuals to that platoon."



Regarding the detention of the three soldiers, Collins said that was the battalion commander's call.



"They were detained because the battalion commander felt that the situation warranted it," he said. "Once the situation was contained, they were brought back to the post."



Although Collins and other military officials would not disclose where the soldiers were detained, Forrest County Deputy Mitchell Smith, told The DAILY LEADER the three were confined overnight at the Forrest County Jail.



The three soldiers were brought in by the Army on the morning of Oct. 6 and housed overnight, said Smith, who is a jailer at the facility. Jail records did not indicate what they were charged with, citing only that they were there by court order, he said.



Several soldiers who spoke with The DAILY LEADER said some of the NCOs have been told they will be prosecuted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, or military law, but they were not aware of the charges.



Collins would not say if any of the platoon had been charged with a crime but indicated later there were charges, saying "the preliminary actions are already under way, so we expect a judgment soon."



According to soldiers of the scout platoon, the Army has failed to understand the motivation behind the soldiers' refusal to follow orders after they were not given a hot meal that they say they had been promised.



"It wasn't about the hot chow," one of the soldiers said. "That was just the final straw in a continuing chain of circumstances. They just decided then that enough was enough."



Pay problems, rank and promotion issues and other matters were among the many frustrations faced by members of the platoon, a soldier said. And when the platoon returned from nearly a week in the field to receive their expected hot meal, it was denied, the soldier said.



The noncommissioned officers, soldiers said, were simply standing up for their troops. They told their immediate superiors that the chain of command had broken down and demanded to see the battalion commander to voice their concerns.



When they were ordered to continue their training, the soldiers said, the platoon refused until they were promised their demands would be met.



"The methodology was wrong, but the intent was correct," a soldier said. "Was it a mutiny? No. There were grievances they were trying to reconcile."



The same soldier admitted he stood with the platoon's NCOs despite believing their approach was wrong.



"Initially, all but one (enlisted man) stood behind the NCOs," he said. "But when (command) issued the ultimatum, two others crossed over. I stood behind them even though I didn't agree with the way they were going about it."



He stayed, he said, because the grievances were real and those were the men he would be standing next to in combat when the unit is deployed to Iraq in coming months.



"I couldn't betray them," he said. "If I betrayed them now, what would they think I would do in a combat situation with our lives on the line?"



There are approximately 27 soldiers in the scout platoon.



Another soldier gave a similar description of events.



"The chain of command had completely broken down," the second soldier said. "We wanted someone from command to hear our complaints. Once we were assured that would happen, we went on with our training."



His reasons for supporting the NCOs were the same as others in the platoon, he said, and he thought the matter was resolved then.



"Everything went back to normal, but later that afternoon the sergeant major called us to formation and then called the NCOs out by name for reassignment."



All but two of the platoon's NCOs were reassigned to other platoons, he said. The platoon leader, a lieutenant, was also reassigned despite not participating in the protest, he said. The soldier said the lieutenant was reassigned for allowing the situation to develop.



Afterwards, he said, the sergeant major made every soldier in the platoon write a sworn statement of the incident.



"Even if the methodology may not have been right," he said, "I don't think you should blame NCOs who are standing up for their troops. Isn't that what they want them to do?"



In the meantime, the soldiers said, the Army has assigned to the scout platoon NCOs with no experience in scouting operations.



"They're bringing in fillers, NCOs from other units, but they're not MOS qualified," a soldier said. MOS, or Military Occupational Specialty, numbers are used to denote a soldier's chosen or assigned job in a military branch of service.



Despite that, they said, "it's training as usual to a degree."



The soldiers who spoke to The DAILY LEADER said the enlisted men were not held officially accountable for the incident.



"There hasn't been any repercussions so far, but we've been blacklisted," a soldier said.



Soldiers in the platoon have been subjected to stares from other soldiers training at Camp Shelby, some who spoke to The DAILY LEADER said. They said they believe the incident will continue to follow them during their careers.



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IRAQ WAR REPORTS:





Attackers Kill 3 British Soldiers;

8 Wounded


November 4, 2004 BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) & Mirror.co.uk



Unknown attackers using a car bomb killed have killed three British soldiers serving with the Black Watch Regiment in Iraq in the blast and mortar fire which followed the attack the British government announced Thursday. [They didn’t leave cards with their names? More idiocy. Obviously the resistance. Was it only yesterday British officers were babbling about how happy the Iraqis were to see them?]



A translator, believed to be Iraqi, also died in the attack at a checkpoint. Eight soldiers were wounded in the attack, which took place in a Black Watch patrol area.



The patrol was reported to have come under heavy fire 17km from its "Dogwood" base camp on the banks of the Euphrates River.



It was only the regiment's second day of operations in Iraq.



Last night (Tuesday) a patrol was ambushed 20 miles south of Baghdad.



One armoured vehicle had its four front wheels blown off when it hit a roadside bomb in the heart of Iraqi rebel territory.



A second Warrior careered into a ditch after a huge mortar exploded just feet away as it sped to the assistance of the troops in the stricken vehicle. The soldiers eventually managed to regroup.

[aboomohammad]

GI SPECIAL 2#B42

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Grieving Father Burns Marine Van:

Dead 20-Year-Old Was On Second Tour Of Duty

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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. August 25, 2004 NBC6.net - A Hollywood man who had just been told his Marine son had been killed in combat in Iraq set fire to a Marine Corps van and suffered severe burns Wednesday, police said.



Carlos Arredondo, 44, sustained second-degree burns over 50 percent of his body and was being transferred to Ryder Trauma Center in Miami after being taken to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood. He was listed in serious condition with severe burns to his arms and legs.



The Hollywood Police Department's public information officer said Marines went to Arresondo's home Wednesday afternoon to notify him that his 20-year-old son, Alexander Arredondo, pictured at left, had been killed.



Police say that when the father learned the news, he went inside his home, got a tank of gasoline and a blow torch, broke the van's window, poured gas inside and started the fire.



Carlos Arredondo apparently got caught in the blaze and suffered several burns. The incident happened just after 2 p.m. on Tyler Street in Hollywood.


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ROLL CALL



"When the two Army men came to the house to tell us, I was inside cleaning. I started to scream. 'Oh, my God! My son is dead!' He had his rosary beads in his pocket when he was killed. His wife, Crystal, had been out, and when she came over and saw the crowd in the yard she thought he was home on his two-week leave that he was supposed to be on. She's 19. She was going to go to college but she just can't do it now.



"My son was a beautiful young man. Everybody speaks about his smile. He had such a beautiful smile. My husband's smile. I say to my husband, 'Could you please smile so I can see my son's face?'"



Jimmy Breslin August 24, 2004



There were four Marines and an Army soldier killed in Iraq in one 24-hour period over the weekend.



George Bush, who does not like people who go to war, probably will say that they are not dead.



As of Aug. 20, we list 952 of our troops killed in fighting.



That is the Defense Department figure. When the figure goes over 1,000, that can be devastating in an election.



But the figure of 1,000, so easily remembered, already has been reached. That was on July 7, when a rocket-propelled grenade killed Pfc. Samuel Bowen of Cleveland. The people keeping track at the Army Times newspaper, which has given the best, and often the only, coverage of the war, made Bowen the 1,000th. The Army Times, with no election to effect, properly includes deaths in Afghanistan.



The names of the dead in Iraq over the weekend have not been released yet, except for Army Pfc. Kevin A. Cuming, 22, of White Plains.



And so you sat yesterday with all these Department of Defense death notices for the last weeks covering the desk and you glanced at them, with the ages of the dead reaching up from the paper to grab your throat. Now and then you called one of their homes to get a small idea of what they were like when they lived, and what we have lost in a war that now pleases only the mentally unbalanced.



Printing as many names and as often as possible is a gloomy task. These are the deaths that the president and his people try to sneak past the country. The dead were brave men. The president is craven. He buries the war, and the news reporters, indolent and in fear of authority, follow like cattle going into pens. For so long, the public believed the news it was given. Saddam Hussein was going to blow us up with an atom bomb! The Muslims of Iraq love us!



Herewith are some of the names we went through yesterday. It is taken here as an obligation that we print the rest in following columns.



Spc. Anthony J. Dixon, 20. 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 1st Infantry Division, Schweinfurt, Germany. Killed on Aug. 1 at Samarra when improvised explosive device detonated near his guard post. Home, Lindenwold, N.J. Killed with him was Spc. Armando Hernandez, 22. Home, Hesparia, Calif.



"He lived every day like it was his last day," Spc. Anthony J. Dixon's sister, Mary, said yesterday. "If something came up, he did it right then. We have a 100-foot cell-phone tower in the back yard. Somebody dared them to climb it. Anthony didn't say a word. He and Jay, the two of them climbed right to the top. They came down and my brother said, 'There. I did that.'



"His best friend, Adam Froehlich, was killed in Iraq. In March. He was 21. He and my brother enlisted together. Anthony already was in Iraq. Someone in his troop told him everything about Adam.



"On Sunday afternoon, somewhere between 1:30 and 2 o'clock, on August 1st, there was somebody at the door and my mother opened it. There were two officers, a sergeant and a chaplain. My mother knew what they were here for. She started crying. The two officers couldn't say anything. My mother threw them out."



Sgt. Juan Calderon Jr., 26, of 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif. Killed on Aug. 4 due to enemy action in Al Ambar Province, Iraq. Home, Weslaco, Texas.



Spc. Brandon T. Titus, 20, of 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Fort Drum, Watertown, N.Y. Killed on Aug. 17 in Baghdad when an improvised device exploded near his checkpoint. Home, Boise, Idaho.



Pfc. Fernando B. Hannon, 19, of 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif. Died Aug. 15 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province. Home, Wildomar, Calif.



And Pfc. Geoffrey, Perez, 24, of same unit and died on same day, Aug. 15, of wounds in Anbar Province. Home, Los Angles, Calif.



Spc. Jacob D. Martir, 21, of 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas. Killed on Aug. 18 in Sadr City when his patrol came under enemy small arms fire. Home, Norwich, Conn.



First Lt. Neil Anthony Santoriello, 24, of 1st Battalion, 34th Armor, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan. Died on Aug. 13 in Khalidiyah when improvised explosive device detonated near his mounted reconnaissance patrol vehicle. Home, Verrona, Pa.



"He lived for oatmeal cookies," his sister, Amy, said yesterday. "He was an Eagle Scout. He took children hiking, swimming. He went to Penn Hills High School and Dickinson College. What did he do after college? He went right into the Army. He had no time in between. He's only 24."



Capt. Michael Yury Tarlavsky, 30, of 1st Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group, Fort Campbell, Ky. Died Aug. 12 in Najaf when his unit came under small arms fire and a grenade attack. Home, Passaic, N.J.



Gunnery Sgt. Elia P. Fontecchio, 30, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Air Ground Control Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif. Killed by enemy action in Al Anbar Province. Home, Milford, Mass.



His uncle, Dana Fontecchio, says that when Elia told them he was being sent back to Iraq for a second tour, "None of us moaned about it. He's a Marine. The gunnery sergeant. They need him."



The surgeon at the forward hospital where they operated on Fontecchio said a helicopter was waiting to fly him to Baghdad when he died.



Pfc. Raymond J. Faulstich Jr., 89th Transportation Company, 6th Transportation Battalion, 7th Transportation Group, Fort Eustis, Va. Died Aug. 5 in Najaf when enemy using small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades attacked his convoy. Home, Leonardtown, Md.



"He had a problem with drugs and alcohol and went one place to the other," his mother, Linda, was saying last night. "Then he met a girl he loved. Her family said she couldn't see him unless he straightened out. He did. For her love. He joined the Army, and they married.



"When the two Army men came to the house to tell us, I was inside cleaning. I started to scream. 'Oh, my God! My son is dead!' He had his rosary beads in his pocket when he was killed. His wife, Crystal, had been out, and when she came over and saw the crowd in the yard she thought he was home on his two-week leave that he was supposed to be on. She's 19. She was going to go to college but she just can't do it now.



"My son was a beautiful young man. Everybody speaks about his smile. He had such a beautiful smile. My husband's smile. I say to my husband, 'Could you please smile so I can see my son's face?'"

[aboomohammad]

GI SPECIAL 2#C21

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Bring 'em on



HOW MANY MORE FOR BUSH’S WAR?


U.S. Marines evacuate an injured comrade after a mortar explosion near Falluja November 10. (Eliana Aponte/Reuters) Fighting Fierce In Falluja: Resistance Launches Fresh Attacks After Marine Officers Claim They Are “Bottled Up” Nov 12, 2004 By Michael Georgy and Fadel al-Badrani, FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) U.S.-led troops battling to take control of Falluja ran into pockets of fierce resistance Friday. A battle erupted near a mosque in northwest Fallujah on Friday just hours after US Marines said insurgents were now trapped in the south of the city.
Heavy clashes resumed in Fallujah’s northwestern Jolan district, where resistance had dwindled in the previous 24 hours. BBC News Partisans emerged on a rooftop beside a mosque as Marine tanks headed for the area. Troops evacuated two US casualties. Smoke rose from an ice factory on the edge of Jolan after rebels fired three rockets at US forces there, residents said. The Iraqi Red Crescent Society urged U.S. forces and the Iraqi government to let it deliver food, medicine and water, as soon as possible, describing conditions in Falluja as a disaster. In Falluja, the U.S. military says those who remain are bottled up. Hours after he spoke, fighting broke out in the Jolan district in the northwest of the city. A huge explosion shook Jolan later. Time magazine's Michael Ware, embedded with U.S. forces, said troops of the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment who spearheaded the first push into the city early Monday found entire houses that were booby-trapped. Fighting was so fierce that, on one occasion, U.S. troops fought insurgents room to room, just a few feet away from each other in the same house. In the city's north, U.S. forces reported roving squads of three to five militants shooting small-arms fire and moving easily through narrow alleyways. U.S. Troops Run A Maze In Falluja November 13, 2004 By Dexter Filkins, The New York Times
The stars began to glimmer through a wan yellow-gray sunset over Falluja. The floury dust in the air and a skyline of broken minarets and smashed buildings combined for the only genuine postcard image this city has to offer for now. Sitting on a third-story roof on Thursday, Staff Sergeant Eric Brown, his lip bleeding, peered through the scope of his rifle into the haze. Moments before, a lone bullet had whizzed past his face and smashed a window behind him. "God, I hate this place, the way the sun sets," Brown said. "I wish I could see down the street," said Sergeant Sam Williams. But these marines did see a black flag pop up all at once above a water tower about 100 meters, or 330 feet, away, then a second flag somewhere in the gloaming above a rooftop. And the shots began, in a wave this time, as men bobbed and weaved through alleyways and sprinted across the street. "He's in the road, he's in the road, shoot him!" Brown shouted. "Black shirt!" someone else yelled. "Due south!" The flags are the insurgents' answer to two-way radios, their way of massing the troops and - in a tactic that goes back at least as far as Napoleon - concentrating fire on an enemy. Compared with radio waves, the flags have one distinct advantage: They are terrifying. At night, they [the insurgents] are setting up deadly ambushes in the moonless pitch blackness of Falluja's labyrinthine streets. Going straight up the gut in the center of the American advance on Thursday was Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Regiment of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. Those marines, including Brown and Williams, started their day by getting mortared in a building they had captured at Highway 10 and Thurthar Street. The windows were blown out. Parts of the ceiling had collapsed. The mortars drew closer and closer and then stopped, as if the insurgents were temporarily short of ammo. "I thought, 'This is it,"' said Senior Corpsman Kevin Markley. At about 2 p.m., the company walked 100 meters east along the highway, then turned south into the Sinai neighborhood, with its car garages and fix-it shops as well as concealed weapons caches and bomb-making factories. Immediately, shooting broke out, pinning down the marines for an hour. Finally they moved south to a mosque with the stub of a blasted minaret. Meanwhile, the marines went to the rooftop, saw the flags and got into a firefight. It was silenced when they called in a 500-pound, or 225-kilogram, bomb from above onto a house where some of the insurgents had concentrated. The strike was so close that the marines had to leave the roof or risk being killed by shrapnel. Soon the marines were headed south again, through a narrow alley between deserted houses.
"Enemy personnel approaching your position in white vehicle with RPGs," someone said over a radio, referring to rocket-propelled grenades. The alley exploded with gunfire and RPG rounds. Somehow the company commander, Captain Read Omohundro, got two tanks in place to fire down the alley. They let loose with a volley and a building crumbled. Omohundro turned to a lieutenant and said, "Are they dead?" "They must be, sir," came the reply. But the insurgents had fired an RPG round and disabled one tank; the other tank mysteriously stopped working. The company had moved 500 meters south. They regrouped in the pitch blackness and pushed on at about 11:30 p.m. without the tanks, trying to keep up with the rest of the front, but after moving seven meters they were attacked again in what appeared to be a well-organized ambush. Two more tanks came in, but one had a problem with its global positioning system unit. There was an hour's delay. The 50 or so men of the 1st Platoon, which had taken casualties, started bickering. Then they moved forward. At 1:30 a.m., now roughly 700 meters south of Highway 10, they stopped and entered a house, intending to find a place to sleep. There was a huge boom inside. "Oh no! Oh no!" someone shouted. "My leg!" someone else screamed. "My leg!" They looked further around the house and found tunnels underneath. They retreated, and a tank fired into the house, which caught fire. They looked for another place to sleep. MORE: Eyewitness: Defiance Amid Carnage 10 November, 2004 By Fadhil Badrani, BBC NEWS I went for a walk around the city last night after the Americans pulled back. It was very quiet - often the only sounds coming from the movement of fighters along streets and rooftops. In places, it was also very dark, with only the occasional rocket or flare lighting the way. Wherever I went, I found broken buildings and bodies - local people and fighters killed on the streets.
I also saw four crippled US tanks and three abandoned Humvees. In the Hasbiyyah area, I counted the bodies of at least six US soldiers lying on the ground. Some of them were badly mangled with various bits blown off. Others were in better condition, as if they had taken small-arms fire. I noticed two of the US soldiers were still clutching their guns tightly across their chests. But most of their weapons were missing. Some of the dead are beginning to rot in the streets. There is no real rest here, day or night. The fighters are constantly on the move. They go from street to street, attacking the army in some places, letting them through elsewhere so that they can attack them later. The fighters have told me they are prepared to resist the Americans until the death. They say they are fighting not just for Falluja, but for all Iraq. They express confidence that they will win in the end. They say the idea is to inflict enough casualties on the American troops to force them to reconsider their mission. MORE: “Like You Are Surrounded” 10 November, 2004 Michael Georgy (Reuters) Running along Falluja's streets in groups of four or five, the guerrillas appeared in black pajamas and headscarves or dressed in uniforms worn by Iraqi government forces, said Tank platoon commander Lieutenant Joe Cash "Some take off their fighting clothes, walk to a weapons cache and next thing you know they are shooting at you," he said. "You see a guy walking in the street with normal clothes and he gives you a hard look and you just know he is one of them." Falluja's built-up centre and narrow streets make it difficult for 70-tonne tanks to maneuver quickly. "It is so congested in there. When they fire at you it feels like it is just coming from every direction, like you are surrounded," said Cash.
IRAQ

[AboOsama]

My Prayers for all Fuloja city ,
and I surly beleve of the victory will come soon ,
they didn't know until now whom they are fighting ...
they try to turn off the islamic light ...
But their enemy unfightable ... they will know that very late

Allah help our brothers and sisters in Fualoja ..

I blame my self first of all ... we didn't help them ...shame on us ... we are only watching as we watch the holleyood movie ..!!

I hope Allah forgive us ....

[Jerusalem]

Speaking of "Isalm is peace", When will Mauritania and Sudan's Muslims stop selling human slaves?

[AboOsama]

Ya .... Islam is peace..,

But Islam not criminal state and nation ..

If your house from glass ... don't throw stones over people ...!!

see here your civilized nation what they did in Fauloja

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