If you were a rebel in Fallujah, and you knew this:
An armoured column of about 1,000 soldiers from the 1st Battalion 16th Infantry Regiment reached the outskirts of Karma today, a small village six kilometres north of Fallujah.
They were attempting to clear food delivery routes from Baghdad to US bases to the west, said an AFP correspondent at the scene.
An attempt to clear the route last week met with fierce fighting that left 100 insurgents and one US soldier dead, according to the coalition.
US bases west of Baghdad started rationing food from Sunday because of dwindling supplies caused by insurgent attacks.
And you knew their convoys were moving like this, and big reconstruction contractors like this were pulling out, just how much credibility would you give to people who go from rhetoric like this, to whining like this:
A US Marine general warned yesterday that insurgents in the powderkeg Iraqi city of Fallujah had only days to turn in their weapons, and said that had been handed over so far was a load of “junk”.
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Asked how long the insurgents had to hand over their weapons, Conway said: “days, not weeks”.
Submit or Die! And you have…um….less than a week to turn in weapons that aren’t all rusted pieces of junk. So says the mighty American Marines.