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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Neocon who wrote (155252)1/5/2005 10:31:27 PM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The Economist article had a passing comment on Fallujah too:

In Fallujah, 40 miles (64km) east of Ramadi, the marines who survived the fierce assault on the town in November have a sardonic acronym for the skills it taught them: FISH, or Fighting In Someone's House. FISH involves throwing a hand grenade into each room before checking it for unfriendlies, or “Muj”, short for mujahideen, as the marines call them.

Given that Fallujah was more or less destroyed in order to "save" it, the "good intelligence" that particular operation depended on seems extremely hypothetical. The alleged smoothnesss of the operation seems somewhat hypothetical too, but that's another story.
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