http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=2&u=/ap/20041111/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4003549.stm
I heard it on NPR as I was heading out the door. I assumed I'd find something here. I just googled "Sarin" and "Fallujah" and got an article in The Scotsman...from May 18th...
NPR said that the suitcase contained kits for testing for sarin. The question was raised about the nutjobs having such a suitcase in the first place.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/11/opinion/11friedman.html?oref=login&hp Typical great read from Friedman. I started a thread on this, but its worth a post here, too.
More excellent WashPost graphics: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/daily/graphics/iraq_111104.html
Here's the bit that grabbed my attention: A famous Yogi Berra quote says that it's important to know where you're going because otherwise you might not get there. It seems to me that twenty months later, the US government still doesn't know where it's going in Iraq.
This link should work. It's to the Getty Images page that has a series of photos on the sarin. http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/FrameSet.aspx?s=EventImagesSearchState|1|0|60|0|0|1|0|0|0|51700734|0|0|0|0|0||0|0|0|0&p=7 If it doesn't work, just go to their webpage and it's on page 2 of the Fallujah pics.
Nello specifico, credo che si capisca dai miei posts, siamo di fronte ad una mattanza e distruzione (ai livelli di Grozny) abbastanza inutile e pure palesemente controproducente. I motivi li leggi in vari interventi in questo stesso thread. Poi per il resto sai già che ero totalmente contro questa guerra (i cui motivi di fondo non sono l'esportazione della democrazia, nè la volontà di liberare l'Iraq), immaginati ora che ci son già state decine e decine di migliaia di morti. Stiamo tutti perdendo, nel senso di noi umanità. E tu cosa pensi di stare vincendo?
According to a recent issue of National Geographic, explorers discovered a small, foul-smelling river made up entirely of fecal matter and biological waste. The explorers were even more surprised to discover the entire United States Army a small distance upriver. "We thought we were going to Fallujah," said an unnamed sergeant, "but we found ourselves here." Happy Veterans Day.
Two more excellent maps detailing AORs for each unit, focal points, areas taken over, etc. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/fallujah-imagery-forces_s.htm http://carnivorousconservative.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/fal_ov4.JPG
The thing that really bothers me about all this is how we are defining 'insurgents'. I have a nasty feeling we are defining them as the ones that are dead. "Oh you've got some more insurgents, have you. Just put them over there on top of the other ones"
As an a marine said an insurgent is the one with a gun trying to kill you that how it is defined literally.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6452966/ The article also cites the military cliche, in a guerrilla war, if you're not winning, you're losing. Not to be a dick about it, but before this "showdown" I said that this wouldn't work. Not that I was alone in being aware of the history of every friggin' guerrilla war ever, but still....
Super posted "The article also cites the military cliche, in a guerrilla war, if you're not winning, you're losing." Super must get a hardon when he can make a post like this. Who do you hate more our soldiers in the field or simple want our country to fail which one is it?