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The US's occupation of Iraq will see to it that the Lion of Babylon rises again .. سنـُبعـَث ُ من جَديد ، وإلى ضَـيـرِِهِـم
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Anyone remember the first battle of Fallujah?
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Amid all the killing that has gone on in Iraq since then, the battle has largely faded from public memory. But for those seeking to understand the past effectiveness of Iraqi insurgent forces, that first battle of Fallujah was highly significant. That is the conclusion of a secret intelligence assessment, prepared by the US Army's National Ground Intelligence Center and was recently leaked to Wikileaks, a Wikipedia for untraceable document leaking and analysis.
The assessment says:
"Codenamed Operation Vigilant Resolve, it was launched by US Marines on April 4, 2004, four days after four Blackwater contractors were killed there. Fallujah, and associated fighting in other parts of the country, can be considered the first Iraqi intifada against the US in Iraq.
Amid all the killing that has gone on in Iraq since then, the battle has largely faded from public memory. But for those seeking to understand the past effectiveness of Iraqi insurgent forces, that first battle of Fallujah was highly significant. That is the conclusion of a secret intelligence assessment, prepared by the US Army's National Ground Intelligence Center and was recently leaked to Wikileaks, a Wikipedia for untraceable document leaking and analysis.
The assessment says:
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Enemy employment of asymmetric tactics, techniques, and procedures during the Battle of Fallujah in April 2004 offers many useful lessons learned in how a relatively weak adversary can prevent the United States from accomplishing its military objectives. (emphasis added)
Enemy employment of asymmetric tactics, techniques, and procedures during the Battle of Fallujah in April 2004 offers many useful lessons learned in how a relatively weak adversary can prevent the United States from accomplishing its military objectives. (emphasis added)
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Fallujah: The first Iraqi intifada, January 8, 2008
Where does the above Operation Vigilant Resolve fit in the number of American occupier's operations in Iraq?
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Take a look at "Iraq Pacification Operations". I count approximalty 250 war crime operations, and counting.
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'PACIFICATION': The most notoriously obscene word in the entire vast depraved lexicon of warfare. Hitler 'pacified'. Israel 'pacifies'. The United States 'pacifies'. A million damnations on all the 'pacifiers'.
No Attack on Mosul! The occupation has escalated its air bombing campaigns by 400 per cent in the past year: An Emergency Statement of Intellectuals and Activists
The imminent attack on Mosul — another urbicide following the ones of holy Najaf, martyred Fallujah, Al-Qaim, Tel Afar, Haditha, and whole neighbourhoods of Baghdad, among others — will only result, as with its precedents, in horrific killings, destruction and mass population displacement, thereby changing the historical, sociological and demographic makeup of the city.
This imminent attack is a pre-announced genocide. It is blood, death and destruction for oil. As the spreading of the resistance to Southern and Northern provinces proves, this new attack is in vain. The Iraqi people rejects — and will always reject — the criminal US occupation.
This imminent attack should raise condemnation, disgust and protest from peace loving people and human rights defenders worldwide. Five years of destruction and death should have taught the Bush administration that its litany of killing serves no purpose and leads only to moral suicide for the United States.
The imminent attack on Mosul — another urbicide following the ones of holy Najaf, martyred Fallujah, Al-Qaim, Tel Afar, Haditha, and whole neighbourhoods of Baghdad, among others — will only result, as with its precedents, in horrific killings, destruction and mass population displacement, thereby changing the historical, sociological and demographic makeup of the city.
This imminent attack is a pre-announced genocide. It is blood, death and destruction for oil. As the spreading of the resistance to Southern and Northern provinces proves, this new attack is in vain. The Iraqi people rejects — and will always reject — the criminal US occupation.
This imminent attack should raise condemnation, disgust and protest from peace loving people and human rights defenders worldwide. Five years of destruction and death should have taught the Bush administration that its litany of killing serves no purpose and leads only to moral suicide for the United States.
Putting Gaza Back in the Cage (Israel will make them 'pay' for daring to think themselves human beings. See photos)
US military aid to Israel for 2009: $2.55 billion - Israel may use up to 25% for military equipment and arms from local defense industries
Israeli president personally supervised massacre of Palestinian policemen: Since the US-hosted Annapolis last November, the Israeli occupation troops intensified their aggressions on the Palestinian people in Gaza Strip and the West Bank, killing tens of them and wounding hundreds others, in addition to tightening the grip of the economic siege on Gaza Strip.
FRANK MORROW TALKS ABOUT IRAQ
ML: What was on Alternative Views in late 1990 when the talk of war with Iraq was in the forefront of the news?
FM: ... I presented information that I knew about the history of the area, like Kuwait had been taken away from Iraq and how April Glaspie gave Saddam Hussein the go-ahead. Hardly anybody reported on that. We did a lot of programs on Iraq.
ML: How did you treat the Iraq issue after the first Gulf War?
FM: We continued to cover the embargo and the bombing and all that. I didn’t think the U.S. at that time would be foolish enough to go and take Baghdad and squash the country. I didn’t think they would be that delusional and megalomaniacal. But, on the other hand, I saw no end to the embargo and all the atrocities that were occurring, not just in the no-fly zone, but everywhere.
ML: When the war drums began beating louder in 2002, what did you think?
FM: You knew the U.S. was going to invade Iraq regardless of what happened. The Project New American Century (PNAC) people said they were going to do it years ago, and they did.
ML: What is your assessment of the time after April 9, 2003, when the U.S. began the occupation?
FM: I didn’t know what was going to happen. I knew the Iraqis were going to resist. It was just a matter of when and where.
The integrity of those people is incredible. They were not going to take anything like that. They will fight to the death.
Look at the Palestinians. The courage of those people. I don’t have that courage. There’s no way I could do what the Iraqis and Palestinians are doing to stand up against the forces of Israel and the United States.
ML: Give us an overview of the Iraqi resistance.
FM: This is incredible. In the Navy, I was in communications and I have read a lot in history that you must have good communications to carry out effective military operations, whether it’s resistance or regular armies.
It’s amazing how these resistance people can coordinate and communicate and keep these things going they way they have. That, plus how they were able to build up immense supplies of arms
It’s obvious that the thing was well-planned and carried out. Still, with all the high technology of the U.S., not just in arms, but in communications and crowd control, and things like transmitters that can mess up people’s heads, it’s amazing that they still keep going.
ML: You mention that the resistance was well-planned. Some leftists, however, are in denial of this. I have received messages from pro-resistance leftists who maintain this was a popular movement that just sprung up and the Ba’athists and Saddam had nothing to do with it. What’s your thoughts?
FM: It is definitely a popular movement, but it is obvious that it was brilliantly conceived before the illegal March 2003 invasion. It was well-planned and well carried out. The amount of coordination and the accessibility to weapons could not happen without prior planning.
What appalls me in addition to what the U.S. has done to Iraq is the American brutality. The civilian contractors who go out and murder people at will and aren’t accountable to anybody. Also, sending people to other countries to be tortured because they don’t want blood on their own hands.
ML: Much of the legitimate Iraqi government has been murdered by the Iraqi stooges taking orders from Washington. According to their legal team, they were tortured and isolated. The U.S. tried to crack them and failed. They played each one against the other and failed. You once told me that Noriega cracked quickly under U.S. interrogation, but "Saddam’s made of sterner stuff." Did this same steadfastness occur while Saddam and the other detainees were incarcerated before their murders?
FM: I think their commendable actions were a tribute to two things: The soul of the Arab people and the loyalty to what Saddam had done for the country. It shows that if you did good things, the people will respond when needed. They have nationalism going for them as well.
ML: Hundreds of Iraqis have blown themselves up in resistance actions. Some were supporters of Saddam Hussein, while others took that route because of other reasons, such as Arab or Iraqi nationalism. However, they all felt violated by the U.S. presence in Iraq. How many people do you think would blow themselves up for George Bush?
FM: (laughing loudly) Ha … ha, ha, ha … ha, ha.
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ML: What was on Alternative Views in late 1990 when the talk of war with Iraq was in the forefront of the news?
FM: ... I presented information that I knew about the history of the area, like Kuwait had been taken away from Iraq and how April Glaspie gave Saddam Hussein the go-ahead. Hardly anybody reported on that. We did a lot of programs on Iraq.
ML: How did you treat the Iraq issue after the first Gulf War?
FM: We continued to cover the embargo and the bombing and all that. I didn’t think the U.S. at that time would be foolish enough to go and take Baghdad and squash the country. I didn’t think they would be that delusional and megalomaniacal. But, on the other hand, I saw no end to the embargo and all the atrocities that were occurring, not just in the no-fly zone, but everywhere.
ML: When the war drums began beating louder in 2002, what did you think?
FM: You knew the U.S. was going to invade Iraq regardless of what happened. The Project New American Century (PNAC) people said they were going to do it years ago, and they did.
ML: What is your assessment of the time after April 9, 2003, when the U.S. began the occupation?
FM: I didn’t know what was going to happen. I knew the Iraqis were going to resist. It was just a matter of when and where.
The integrity of those people is incredible. They were not going to take anything like that. They will fight to the death.
Look at the Palestinians. The courage of those people. I don’t have that courage. There’s no way I could do what the Iraqis and Palestinians are doing to stand up against the forces of Israel and the United States.
ML: Give us an overview of the Iraqi resistance.
FM: This is incredible. In the Navy, I was in communications and I have read a lot in history that you must have good communications to carry out effective military operations, whether it’s resistance or regular armies.
It’s amazing how these resistance people can coordinate and communicate and keep these things going they way they have. That, plus how they were able to build up immense supplies of arms
It’s obvious that the thing was well-planned and carried out. Still, with all the high technology of the U.S., not just in arms, but in communications and crowd control, and things like transmitters that can mess up people’s heads, it’s amazing that they still keep going.
ML: You mention that the resistance was well-planned. Some leftists, however, are in denial of this. I have received messages from pro-resistance leftists who maintain this was a popular movement that just sprung up and the Ba’athists and Saddam had nothing to do with it. What’s your thoughts?
FM: It is definitely a popular movement, but it is obvious that it was brilliantly conceived before the illegal March 2003 invasion. It was well-planned and well carried out. The amount of coordination and the accessibility to weapons could not happen without prior planning.
What appalls me in addition to what the U.S. has done to Iraq is the American brutality. The civilian contractors who go out and murder people at will and aren’t accountable to anybody. Also, sending people to other countries to be tortured because they don’t want blood on their own hands.
ML: Much of the legitimate Iraqi government has been murdered by the Iraqi stooges taking orders from Washington. According to their legal team, they were tortured and isolated. The U.S. tried to crack them and failed. They played each one against the other and failed. You once told me that Noriega cracked quickly under U.S. interrogation, but "Saddam’s made of sterner stuff." Did this same steadfastness occur while Saddam and the other detainees were incarcerated before their murders?
FM: I think their commendable actions were a tribute to two things: The soul of the Arab people and the loyalty to what Saddam had done for the country. It shows that if you did good things, the people will respond when needed. They have nationalism going for them as well.
ML: Hundreds of Iraqis have blown themselves up in resistance actions. Some were supporters of Saddam Hussein, while others took that route because of other reasons, such as Arab or Iraqi nationalism. However, they all felt violated by the U.S. presence in Iraq. How many people do you think would blow themselves up for George Bush?
FM: (laughing loudly) Ha … ha, ha, ha … ha, ha.
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