" Operation Iron Resolve "

General Ricardo Sanchez

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Israel urges US into massive retaliation to avenge four dead Americans

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Revenge for US Mercenaries killed at Fallujah

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First two strikes

	Al Najaf		Al Sadr City

	30 Iraqis massacred		43 massacred

4 - 2 -2004

Day 1

Al Najaf strike

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Crowd protests at Spanish army out post

A crowd was gathered by ' Israeli inserted radicals '. These were mostly unemployed Iraqis and children and they marched to a local army post in protest

American army and Mercenaries are on rooftops

Troops opened fire on thousands of supporters of Shiite Muslim radical leader Moqtada Sadr headed towards the headquarters of the Spanish-led Plus Ultra Brigade on the outskirts of this Shiite holy city, an AFP correspondent witnessed.

Source

Blackwater Mercenaries

Mercs shot hundreds in revenge

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Al Sadr City -- Sunday April 4th

Muslim women march mourning their dead

The protest suddenly turns into a bloodbath

Tanks mowed down protestors

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Angry Shiites gathered Monday in the Sadr City slum of Baghdad - improvised by Mossad plants. It was to mourn the dead but Americans laid in wait with tanks and decimated the Iraqis leaving 22 Iraqis and seven American soldiers dead. At least another 75 were injured .

Day 2

Monday April 5th

Baghdad -- - Ten dead

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US helicopters fire on Sadr supporters in Baghdad

BAGHDAD - US Apache helicopters sprayed fire on the private army of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr during fierce battles Monday in the western Baghdad district of Al-Showla, witnesses said.

U.S. helicopter gunships opened fire as tanks rumbled through Baghdad's sprawling Shuala district on April 5, 2004, but teenage militiamen with guns and knives were firmly in control when the clashes ended.

Soldiers opened up children

US troops opened fire Monday killing a child after a group of children stoned soldiers deployed outside the Karama police station, an AFP correspondent said

Troops shoot ambulance

His ambulance had come under attack while he was rushing an injured woman to hospital, he said. Both the woman and her accompanying daughter were killed in the gunfire.

Day 3

Tuesday April 6th

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British and Italians kill 30

In Nasiriyah, 15 Iraqis were killed and 35 wounded when al-Sadr backers attacked Italian troops. Eleven Italians troops were wounded, said Maj. Schiazoni Simone, spokesman for the Italian forces.

Fighting overnight in Amarah in the south between al-Sadr's followers and British troops killed 14 Iraqis and wounded eight

Source

C-130's devastate Fajullah

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US soldiers attack Fajullah

U.S. warplanes firing rockets destroyed four houses in Fallujah after nightfall Tuesday, witnesses said. A doctor said 26 Iraqis, including women and children, were killed and 30 wounded in the strike.

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In Fallujah the military used a deadly AC-130 gunship to lay down a barrage of fire against guerrillas, and commanders said Marines were holding an area several blocks deep inside the city. At least two Marines were wounded.

Day 4

Wensday April 7th

40 killed at Mosque

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FALLUJAH, Iraq - U.S. Marines fired rockets into a mosque compound filled with worshippers killing 40 people.The strike came as worshippers had gathered for afternoon prayers
First a warplane fired off guns, then a Cobra helicopter shot off a Hellfire missile at the mosque and finally an aircraft dropped a laser-guided precision bomb, Byrne said. A Lieutenant-Colonel Brennan Byrne ordered the strike because he believed there were 'Bad Guys' in the Mosque

42 killed in Ramadi

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Ramadi City ---On Wednesday, 42 Iraqis were killed and scores injured in the city of Ramadi City in central Iraq ( 420,000 inhabitants )

Day 5

Thursday April 8th

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Japanese kidnapped

Eight South Koreans and three Japanese were kidnapped Thursday .

The Iraqis made a video where they threatened to cut off their heads and burn the bodies. ( Very similar to the phony video of Danny Pearle ).

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Jewish sponsored terrorists posing as Iraqis captured

Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped two Palestinians with Israeli identity cards and accused them of spying for Israel, according to footage shown on Thursday by an Iranian TV station. Source

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Fallujah under seige

290 people have been killed since the start of the siege and 400 more injured. Americans are using C-130 gunships and Apache helicopters. Most of the wouned are women and children.

Photos of children

Thousands bring supplies to Fallujah

Thousands of Iraqi sympathisers forced their way through US military roadblocks to bring aid from the capital to the besieged Fallujah.

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Day 6

Friday April 9th

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Bremer halts killings

Because of world outrage over civilian deaths Bremer issues a cease fire to allow food and medical supplies to civilians.

More than 400 Iraqis have been killed and 1,000 wounded in the six-day US offensive against insurgents in Fallujah, an aide to a member of the interim Governing Council said Friday. .

General Sanchez ... A fiery full blooded Mexican - Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez feels it's necessary to destroy Moqtada Sadr and his militia.

Fajullah residents begged for time to bury their dead in a soccer stadium. Women, children and the elderly were allowed to leave Fallujah, but men under 18 were ordered to stay in the city by Marines.

Families pleaded with Marines to be allowed to take out men, and when Marines refused, some entire families turned back.

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General Kimmitt, agreed to cease fire but added --- "If fired upon, they will fire back." 90 minutes later Kimmit resumed his attack. Tanks were said to be firing on the civilian convoys.

In Karbala, 15 Iraqis were killed and 6 Iranian pilgrims were shot dead near a Polish checkpoint near Kerbala.

C-130's spray Fajullah ....During the day, the pause in fighting mostly held, though sporadic gunfire rattled. But after nightfall, the military called out one of its heaviest weapons, an AC-130 gunship that sprayed targets with gunfire from the air.

Day 7

Saturday April 9th

	Fighting continues Saturday with brief pauses to let women and children out of Falljulah. Well over 470 people have now been slaughtered by US troops in Falluja, this week. 1700 have been injured. The Americans have been using C-130's and fighter bombers with 500 lb precision bombs. US General Kimmitt has let women and children out but the men must stay.
Col. Brennan Byrne	Lieutenant Colonel Brennan Byrne ( called in air strike on Mosque ) will lead the offensive that will go house to house killing any resistors Bryne's opinion on Falljuhad truce---``The prospect of some city father walking in and making 'Joe Jihadi' give himself up are pretty slim ' What is coming is the destruction of anti-coalition forces in Fallujah ... they have two choices: Submit or die,''

Day 8

Sunday April 10th

	12 hr cease fire declared BAGHDAD (AFP) - The US-led coalition and insurgents in Fallujah have agreed to a 12-hour ceasefire starting Sunday 0600 GMT to pave the way for US Marines to leave the town, an Iraqi mediator said Samir Rabee and three others in the group said they had seen U.S. snipers in mosque minarets. The U.S. military says it respects the sanctity of mosques and accuses guerrillas of using them and other civilian areas to fire on American troops.
	Women and children are allowed to leave and food and medicine are allowed in. Men are forced to stay in anticipation of the coming offensive of house to house fighting.
	The Iraqis are burying their 600 dead ( mostly women. children and elderly ) in a soccer stadium. A Marine commander said most of the dead were likely insurgents

Day 9

Monday April 11th

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Cease fire in effect

People in Fallujah are burying people in their gardens. Over 700 people have been killed in Fallujah alone.

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Kimmitt denies killing children

Kimmit said he runs a " Clean war " - a reporter laughed and said Arab televison was showing streets littered with women and children.

General Kimmitt responded, `Change the channel to a legitimate, authoritative, honest news station.`

US snipers using Mosques

U.S. snipers are using mosque minarets as shooting platforms.

It is common knowledge that marines were trained in Israel and are using Israeli tactic of snipers to shoot women ,children and ambulances.

Out of 700 dead - 200 were women and 100 children

US snipers shoot anything that moves

"The Americans have stuck snipers all over Fallujah and everyone can be hit anytime. We only can work at night, but during the day, they kill the civilians. I saw them shoot a family just for trying to run to a car to leave part of the fighting."

Day 10

Tuesday April 13th

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F-15's attack Fallujah

Fallujah - 16:20 - US F-15 jet fighters flew four sorties that shelled the city

The air attacks had been preceded by land-based machine-gun fire

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HM-53 helicopters was shot down over Fallujah on Tuesday

Lieutenant Colonel Brennan Byrne, a battalion commander, said that rebels had been "taking advantage of the ceasefire."

Day 11

Wenssday April 14th

Massive air assault begins on town of 200,000

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US forces called in F-15's, Cobra gunships and C-130's and hammered gunmen Wednesday, breaking a truce in besieged Fallujah.

MH-53 Pave Low helicopter

Used to ferry special operations soldiers and large enough to carry 38 troops plus a crew of six — was hit by ground fire early

Bodies litter the streets

To date there are 800 estimated dead Iraqis in Fallujah and most of them are civilians.

Over 400 are women and children.

Day 12

Thursday April 15th

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F-15's attack Fallujah mosque

Jets straffed the city as the US violated the truce. Fallujah's 2nd largest Mosque was hit todayHadret Mohammediya mosque

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Executed

Meanwhile, Iraqi militants executed one of four Italian hostages, Italy confirmed.

20 Marines trapped

Iraqis shot up this Styker with 20 marines inside. The marines fled to a nearby house and four tanks came in to rescue them. F-15s shot up the neighborhood.

The stricken armored vehicle was hooked to a tank and dragged away.

Day 13

Friday April 16th

Col Brennan Byrne

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C-130's hit Fallujah every night

"I intend to use AC 130 gunships every night," Byrne said.

Byrne said his men were "definitely in the killing business now".

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Byrne's latest tactic copies Israel

Byrne is using loudspeakers to taunt Arabs similar to what Israel does to draw children in the Gaza ( Broadcasting things like " Your mother is a whore who sleeps with donkeys " ).

When someone comes to their window a sniper shoots them

Day 14

Saturday April 17th

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Snipers target ambulances

Two of the victims, woman and small child, were brought in simultaneously. Both had been shot in the neck by what witnesses said was a US sniper. Medical personnel expected neither to survive the injuries.

Some patients at the clinics have shrapnel and burn wounds they say resulted from the use of cluster bombs.Fallujah residents say Marines are opening fire randomly on unarmed civilians and have attacked clearly marked ambulancesRafie Al-Issawi, head of the Fallujah hospital, said most of the dead and wounded seen at area medical facilities were women and children.

Day 15

Sunday April 18th

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Gen Myers says Iraqis use women and children as shields and thats why 70% of Fallujah's casualties are civilians

Fallujah is sniper paradise

A 16-year-old living near al-Khulafaa, Mohannad Abdel-Rahman, went up on his roof and was shot in the head by a sniper, his relatives told AP. When his uncle went to retrieve his body, he too was killed, they said.

Snipers are causing not just carnage but also the paralysis of the ambulance and evacuation services.

The biggest hospital after the main one was bombed is in US territory and cut off from the clinic by snipers. The ambulance has been repaired four times after bullet damage. Bodies are lying in the streets because nobody can go to collect them without being shot.’’

Day 16

Monday April 19th

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PRIVATE ARMY rules the skies

The US army allows Blackwater Security ( private mercenaries ) to roam all over Fajjulah at will.

About 15,000 personnel from private military firms (PMFs) were operating in Iraq, making them more numerous that even the biggest US ally, Britain, estimated Peter Singer, author of "Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry."

After days of talks and threats of a military showdown, American officials agreed Monday to call off an offensive in the flash point city of Falluja if civic leaders can persuade insurgents there to turn in their heavy weapons.

Day 17

Tuesday April 20th

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Seige of Fallujah continues

Wensday morning - tanks and Cobra gunships hit Fallujah killing nine.

Explosions were heard coming from the scene of the fighting, and Cobra helicopter gunships were blasting with Gatling guns from the air. Tanks moved into the Julan neighborhood from which Marines said insurgents their positions.

Marines set up barbwire checkpoints - allow no one in while the city starves.

Day 18

Wensday April 20th

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Marine Lt. Gen. James Conwayand Lt. Col. Brennan Byrne

Itching to devastate Fallujah

Marines contemplate an invasion

The top Marine Corps general in Iraq said an American attack against insurgents in Falluja was "inevitable" within days unless the militants there immediately surrendered their heavy weapons and ammunition, as called for in the agreement. Soldiers in Falluja said that demand was complied with only half-heartedly: A pickup truck was delivered only partly full of weapons that were largely rusty and unserviceable.

"This is an insult," one of the soldiers at the weapons delivery said.

Day 19

Thursday April 22th

Atrocities being reported

Snipers are killing unarmed civilians.

An Apache helicopter had opened fire on mourners at the city cemetery killing 25 people.

According to an eyewitness, an Apache helicopter gunned down nine people on a rooftop,

"We shot a guy today," said Cartwright, a scout with Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment.

Cartwright's job is to find insurgent fighters and pass on the information to a Marine sniper. The sniper's job is to kill the enemy with a single shot from several hundred yards away.

Day 20

Friday April 22th

Marine snipers are shooting civilians

"We shot a guy today," said Cartwright, a scout with Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment.

Cartwright's job is to find insurgent fighters and pass on the information to a Marine sniper.

M-40 sniper rifle

The sniper's job is to kill the enemy with a single shot from several hundred yards away.

Marines itching for a fight

U.S. commanders preparing Marines for a possible new offensive in the flashpoint city of Falluja

Day 21

Saturday April 23rd

Bush and Rumsfelder's patience running out

Washington -- Facing one of the grimmest choices of the Iraq war, President Bush and his senior national security and military advisers are expected to decide this weekend whether to order an invasion of Fallujah.

"It's clear you can't leave a few thousand insurgents there to terrorize the city and shoot at us," one senior official involved in the discussions said Saturday. "The question now is whether there is a way to go in with the most minimal casualties possible."

After declaring Friday evening in Florida that "America will never be run out of Iraq by a bunch of thugs and killers,"

Marines in Fallujah said they killed at least 11 insurgents in an ambush Saturday after laying still and silent for hours in buildings deep inside the embattled northwest corner of the city.

Day 21

Sunday April 24rd

	Fallujah - At least ten US marines were injured during fierce fighting in the Sunni Muslim stronghold city of Fallujah where an uneasy ceasefire had been in place for a week, an embedded pool reporter with US forces told CNN. Marines called in airstrikes killing many civilians

Day 22

Monday April 26rd

Fallujah -

FALLUJAH, Iraq - Multiple explosions shook Fallujah after dark Tuesday, and large plumes of smoke billowed into the sky as fighting erupted for the second straight night. An American AC-130 gunship hammered targets in the city.

Blasts and gunfire went on steadily for more than half an hour in sustained fighting, apparently in the northern Jolan district, a poor neighborhood where Sunni insurgents are concentrated

Day 23

Tuesday April 27rd

Fallujah -

The nighttime attack from an AC-130 gunship raised smoke and flames above Fallujah.

During the day, fighting broke out in at least three parts of the city. In the afternoon, U.S. forces dropped 10 laser-guided bombs — mostly 500-pound bombs and one 1,000-pound bomb — on buildings that guerrillas were firing from, Lt. Col. Brennan Byrne said.

Day 24

Wensday April 28 th

Bush, Annan at odds over Fallujah;

US forces vow to "destroy" assailants

C-130's and F-16's continue to pound the town during the night.The planes wrecked 25 buildings. Ambulances could not reach areas where fighting was going on and residents reported large numbers of dead and wounded.

The United States is rushing tanks to Iraq, including Falluja, where sporadic clashes on Thursday followed President George W. Bush's promise to do whatever was needed to retake the town.

Massacre at checkpoint

Marines shot three men as they approached the checkpoint ( Marines describe an intense battle where witnesses describe an execution )

Later an AP reporter says he saw U.S. soldiers opened fire on a pickup truck at the checkpoint, killing a seven-member family that was trying to flee the city.

Day 25

Thursday April 28 th

	FALLUJA, Iraq - U.S. warplanes struck three areas of Falluja on Thursday, shortly after the announcement of a deal in which U.S. forces would ease their siege of the Iraqi city, witnesses said.