German Report: AMERICANS ESCAPE FROM IRAQI FIGHTERS IN FALLUJAH

[MidEastMan]

Retreat from Fallujah?
02.12.2004









A AFP message from Wednesday at least partly confirmed the "reports of the Iraqi resistance" of the last days. Therefore the Iraqi city Fallujah is apparent far to be real under control of the US military.

The US soldiers obviously do not succeed in keeping already "secured" ranges of the city under control. "into the past few days found we 20, 25 types in houses, which we had already secured", said US navy.

Despite the officially explained successful conclusion of the conquest of the city the soldiers fire on houses, them to scan want before with heavy machine guns and shells.

"we have an area here secured", said US captain Tom Tennant, while it pointed to a map of the city, "and then saw we some types running around there." It pointed with its finger to a road and said: "you ran here along and attacked some ours young."

US-MARINE in a school, which "small footboard" of the unit 1-3 Charlie in the city said, they are frustrated, because them of resistance fighter, who appears struck the one day next is again attacked.

Some members of the US military speak already of a "Green zone" within Fallujahs. That so far as "Green zone" designated area in the capital Baghdad is the heavily guarded and defended complex of palaces and other buildings, in which the "US message", which are resident "Iraqi interim government" and countless different the crew supporting private and public bodies. Outside of this range the security situation is in such a manner bad that official side leaving one advises against.

If US military now a range within Fallujahs likewise "Green call zone", then this can be actually regarded as confirmation of the "reports of the Iraqi resistance", since also these state, the soldiers a range in the center of the city under control would have brought, while the remainder of the city is controlled further and/or again by resistance fighters.

Also the statement that US units from the city were taken off, was confirmed by the AFP message. Several units therefore already left the city, what does not make an advance more difficult of the resistance fighters surely.

"if one this place further to secure wants needs one a quantity of people", thus US navy.

Here the question arises, why it comes nevertheless to a departure of units, since in this kind the city might be over briefly or long again in the hands of the resistance.

Either, the fights in other ranges of the country are in such a manner heavy that they had to be sent there as reinforcement or it concerned in truth not around a "departure" of the units, but rather what gladly "strategic retreat" is called and a "escape" means.

Whatever the background may be, then this report lends one in a US unit of "embedded" AFP reporter - which that also this report lets assume still strongly "filtered" is - the messages of the opposite side in each case more reliability.



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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. In other words

after the destruction of the city of Falujah and the killing of countless innocent civilians, there are still resistance fighters around, and the city is not safe. Well, as Gomer Pyle used to say, "Surprise, surprise, surprise!" We are creating more resistance fighters, would-be terrorists, and American haters every day we stay in Iraq and do these horrible things.