U.S. says ready for new strikes against Iraq towns

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ALI554744.htm

U.S. says ready for new strikes against Iraq towns

BAGHDAD, Sept 15 (Reuters) - U.S. forces are ready to launch air strikes on towns in western Iraq as they search for Iraq's al Qaeda leader, who has declared war on the nation's Shi'ite Muslims in response to the Iraqi-U.S. offensive in Tal Afar.

U.S. army spokesman Major General Rick Lynch told a news briefing on Thursday that al Qaeda's Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was behind a series of suicide bombs and car bombs in Baghdad on Wednesday and Thursday which killed and wounded hundreds.

"We've got great intelligence which tells us where he (Zarqawi) is moving to and where he's trying to establish safe havens. People focus on the Euphrates river valley because that's where we believe he's coming through," Lynch said.

"Towns close to the Euphrates river valley, including Qaim and Haditha, are towns that we focus on. And as soon as we see him trying to establish a safe haven there, we will conduct operations just like we did in Tal Afar," he added.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,169246,00.html

Talabani: Iraqis 'Will Never Forget' Bush

In a press conference with Bush after a closed-door meeting in the Oval Office, Talibani also thanked the president for U.S. support.

"We will never forget what you have done for our people," he said.

I agree with you Mr. Talabani, they WILL never forget.

[Zinfandel]

1. "they search for Iraq's al Qaeda leader" well that bullshit line, sure

helps justify Bush's invasion of Iraq becasuse of the connection to 9/11

[0007]

14. Searching the Iraq's al Qaeda leader is like searching for

Katrina and holding Katrina accountable.

But we do understand that junior has to get those poll numbers up to a decent 35%.

[patrice]

2. "God" forgive "us"!!!

If I went across town and started telling those "other" folks who live there how to live and who should lead them, and then they got mad at me, and I defended myself violently, and they reacted to my reaction, who would be responsible for any death that occurs?

[Say_What]

3. ...more Falujahs

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[acmavm]

4. These clowns who can't do one damn thing right have appointed and

annointed themselves as 'those that decide who shalt live and who shalt die' (or some such other biblical lingo crap).

May they all be tried as war criminals on this earth and get the punishment they so richly deserve. And after they depart from this world, may it continue forever and ever, Amen.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. "We will never forget what you have done TO our people," we said

Don't forget that either, Mr. Talabani.

Bush has screwed us right into the ground.................

[WhiteTara]

6. we still have standing targets in Iraq?

I thought by now the army has reduced the entire country to rubble. I am sure that is why they are leaving Afghanistan...they have bombed the last standing building and we have run out of bunker buster bombs for the moment.
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[Bob3]

7. Still more progress

My head is spinning.

[Amonester]

8. More murders, more deaths, more Napalm, more Cluster bombs

more Depleted Uranium, until the day there won't be any oil there.

That's how long they (PNAC'ers) "planned" their (chickens**) aggression would last...

And the cheerleaders (Freeps + CSM) screamed! :grr:

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. They need aerial bombardment to get one guy? This didn't work

with Osama or Saddam, but what do I know.

[Barrett808]

10. Sy Hersh recently said that the US is prepared to destroy 4-5 cities/year

That'll help.

[Team44Car]

12. What possible purpose would that serve?

I cannot imagine.

[Barrett808]

16. It's the old formula for empire

Which is certainly indefensible within the public cover story.

[Team44Car]

18. ahh yes, empire indeed

[jpak]

11. If they have such "great intel" on Zarqawi's location

Why the fuck can't they capture him????

Oh - I forget - he doesn't exist.

What horseshit.

[Team44Car]

19. That man is everywhere!

He must travel by flying saucer the way he covers ground.

[LeftHander]

13. Nazi style reprisals....nt

[cantstandbush]

15. Well, Al-Qaeda strikes some towns and the US strikes others.

When will the Iraqi people get tired of both these oppressors?

[Nihil]

17. Wow! In black and white ... so blatant and uncaring ...

> U.S. forces are ready to launch air strikes on towns in western Iraq

A US Army spokesman is admitting in plain sight of the world that they
have planned and are about to brazenly carry out war crimes.

They didn't get that obvious an indictment document in Nuremburg.

:wow:

And no fucker cares ...

[Bigmack]

20. If I was an Iraqi....

..I'd be hunkering down. More US attacks of more cities equals more suicide bombers.

Hasn't the US "liberated" those poor bastards enough yet?