1 iraquien contre 150 soldtas américains

salam, bonsoir, :-)

1 iraquien contre 150 soldtas américains.

FALLUJA, Iraq, Nov. 10 - American marines called in two airstrikes on the pair of dingy three-story buildings squatting along Highway 10 on Wednesday, dropping 500-pound bombs each time. They fired 35 or so 155-millimeter artillery shells, 10 shots from the muzzles of Abrams tanks and perhaps 30,000 rounds from their automatic rifles. The building was a smoking ruin.

But the sniper kept shooting.

He - or they, because no one can count the flitting shadows in this place - kept 150 marines pinned down for the better part of a day. It was a lesson on the nature of the enemy in this hellish warren of rubble-strewn streets. Not all of the insurgents are holy warriors looking for martyrdom. At least a few are highly trained killers who do their job with cold precision and know how to survive.

"The idea is, he just sits up there and eats a sandwich," said Lt. Andy Eckert, "and we go crazy trying to find him."

The contest is a deadly one, and two marines in Company B, First Battalion, Eighth Regiment of the First Marine Expeditionary Force have been killed by snipers in the past two days as the unit advanced just half a mile southward to Highway 10 from a mosque they had taken on Tuesday.

Despite the world-shaking blasts of weaponry as the Americans try to root out the snipers, this is also a contest of wills in which the tension rises to a level that seems unbearable, and then rises again. Marine snipers sit, as motionless as blue herons, for 30 minutes and stare with crazed intensity into the oversized scopes on their guns. If so much as a penumbra brushes across a windowsill, they open up.

With the troops' senses tuned to a high pitch, mundane events become extraordinary. During one bombing, a blue-and-yellow parakeet flew up to a roof of a captured building and fluttered about in tight circles before perching on a slumping power line, to the amazement of the marines assembled there.

On another occasion, the snipers tensed when they heard movement in the direction of a smoldering building. A cat sauntered out, unconcerned with anything but making its rounds in the neighborhood.

"Can I shoot it, sir?" a sniper asked an officer.

"Absolutely not," came the reply.

This day started at about 8 a.m., when the marines left the building where they had been sleeping and headed south toward Highway 10, which runs from east to west and roughly bisects the town. At the corner of Highway 10 and Thurthar, the street they were moving along, was a headquarters building for the Iraqi National Guard that had been taken over by insurgents.

Almost immediately, they came under fire from a sniper in the minaret of a mosque just south of them. Someone in a three-story residential building farther down the street also opened up. The marines made 50-yard dashes and dived for cover, but one of them was cut down, killed on the spot. It was unclear what direction the fatal bullet had come from.

"I don't know who it was," Lt. Steven Berch, leader of the fallen marine's platoon, said of the attacker, "but he was very well trained."

After two hours of bombardment, the sniper at that mosque ceased firing. But just around the corner at the famous blue-domed Khulafah Al Rashid mosque, another sniper was pinning down marines, and airstrikes were called in on it, too. The issue of striking at mosques is so sensitive in the Arab world that the American military later issued a statement saying that the strike on the Khulafah mosque was unavoidable and that precision munitions merely knocked down a minaret.

By noon, the marines had worked their way down to the national guard building, still taking fire from the sniper, or snipers, on the other side of Main Street. Inside was a sign in Arabic that said: "Long live the mujahedeen." Soon the marines had spray-painted another sign over it: "Long live the muj killers."

But for the next five hours, they could not kill whoever was running from window to window and firing at them from the other side of Main Street, despite the expenditure of enormous amounts of ammunition.

"We're not able to see the muzzle flashes," said Capt. Read Omohundro, the company commander. "As a result," he said, "we end up expending a lot of ammunition trying to get the snipers."

At one point, they thought that they had a bead on someone running back and forth between the two buildings. Then Capt. Christopher Spears exclaimed: "He's on a bike!"

And somehow, through a volley of gunfire, whoever it was got away.

At 5 p.m., the marines finally crossed Highway 10 and searched the smoking remains of the two buildings. At 5:30 p.m., a sniper opened up on them.



tawmat :-)

salam, bonsoir, :-)

Une petit traduction :-)

D'après les sources mêmes des terroristes américains, 1 seul résistant irakien a fait face à 150 marines et à leur déluge de feu venant du ciel et du sol.

Les lâches terroristes américains ont demandé deux attaques aériennes contre un batiment d'où provenaient des tirs. Dans chacune des attaques, des bombes de 500 pounds ont été larguées. Ils ont aussi attaqué avec de l'artillerie de calibre 35 et 155 millimètres, avec des obus tirés des tanks abrams et avec leurs fusils automatiques (30 000 balles).

Le batiment était en ruine mais le résistant irakien tirait toujours sur les 150 laches américano-terroristes cachés derrirère leurs blindés et protégés par leur aviation.

Ce seul résistant irakien a réussi a gardé les 150 sangliers us à cet endroit une grande partie de la journée !!!

tawmat :-)

on appelle cela "tabula rasa" ou politique de terre bruller ou megaterrorisme ou hyperterrorisme our terraterrorisme.

Par ces actions ils ont pour but de demoraliser la popolation civile pour qu'elle crois que son detestin est a la main des usa et leur collaborateurs comme allawi and co. La honte est que les responsables arabes se rejuissent de ces actes qui ont une influence dramatique sur la rue arabes. Cet rue arabe aussi honteuse qui ne protesstent que si le pris du pain a augmenter de 10% et qui ne connais que l7ba et rassi ya rassi

[medicom]

meme si j'ai pas compris certains mots, j'ai saisi le sens general
et ca demontre bien la peur des americains et leurs couardises, au lieu de donner l'assaut et d'en finir, il bombarde par avions, chars et mortiers, c'est bien leur genre de guerre: "la guerre a distance" mais maintenant k'ils sont obliges de les affronter mano a mano, ils commencent a crever de trouille et deviennent fous ( l'assasinnat du blesse ):-(
et ca ce pretend la plus grande armée du monde
il devrait faire venir rambo
a lui tout seul il raserait toute la peninsule arabe :-D

ils le payeront cher (inshaa lah) ces laches. Qui ne justifient leur courage par q les methodes de heroschima et nakazaki mais filmer par des truck de cnn por dire que c'est des operations churergucales. Ils claires que maintenant aucain honette ne vas denoncer zerkawi meme s'il bruelera des soldats americains vivant bien qu 'il ne le fera pas vu sa conviction