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To: stockman_scott who wrote (53614)	10/19/2004 12:05:17 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 81568

Mortar Attack Kills, Injures More than 100 Iraqis MSNBC Tuesday 19 October 2004 Attack targeted National Guard headquarters north of Baghdad. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi officials said Tuesday more than 100 Iraqis were killed and wounded when a mortar attack hit an Iraqi National Guard headquarters north of Baghdad. Six mortar rounds fell on National Guard offices in an early morning attack in Mashahidan, 25 miles north of Baghdad, said Iraqi police and National Guard officers under condition of anonymity. There was no breakdown on the number of those killed and injured. U.S. Blackhawk helicopters evacuated all the injured, police said. No further information was immediately available. U.S. Targets Insurgents in Ramadi, Fallujah Also Tuesday, U.S. troops battled insurgents in a major city west of Baghdad after the U.S. command said it destroyed several weapons storage sites and safehouses of terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the militant bastion Fallujah. The two operations were part of a stepped up campaign to curb Sunni Muslim extremists before January's national elections and bring the volatile region west of the capital under government control. Residents of Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, said fighting raged near the city hall and a Humvee was ablaze. There were no reports of casualties. In Baghdad, the U.S. command said the late night attacks in Fallujah occurred around midnight but did not specify whether they were airstrikes. "Multiple secondary explosions indicate a significant amount of explosives or ammunition inside the houses," the statement said. It said recent attacks had forced leadership changes in al-Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad movement and the strikes late Monday targeted possible replacement leaders. Tawhid and Jihad has claimed responsibility for many car bombings and the beheading of hostages. The strikes came shortly after Fallujah's chief negotiator, Sheik Khaled al-Jumeili, ruled out any quick resumption of talks to find a peaceful solution to the standoff in Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad. Allawi Extends Cash-for-Weapons Program On Monday, Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi announced plans to extend a cash-for-weapons program for Shiite fighters in Baghdad's Sadr City to cities nationwide in an attempt to disarm the country. The government launched the cash-for-guns program in Sadr City as part of a deal to end weeks of fighting in the Shiite district of Baghdad and has twice extended the deadline for fighters to hand in their weapons. On Monday, Allawi told the National Council, a government oversight body, that the program is going so well he wants to extend it to the rest of Iraq. "The government is determined to disarm cities and neighborhoods because our forces are now ready to fight terrorists and there's no justification for people to keep weapons at home," Allawi said. Saboteurs Strike Key Oil Pipeline In northern Iraq, saboteurs attacked and set on fire a key oil pipeline that connects the Beiji oil refinery with Turkey, police said Tuesday. The pipeline was hit with explosives late Monday, said a Beiji police officer on condition of anonymity. The attack happened about eight miles from the refinery. Beiji is 155 miles north of Baghdad. An official at the state-run Northern Oil Company also confirmed the attack but did not give details. Iraq's oil industry, which provides desperately needed money for Iraq's reconstruction efforts, has been the target of repeated attacks by insurgents in recent months. Meanwhile, a 1st Infantry Division Soldier died from a non-combat injury at a base in Diyala province, the U.S. military said Tuesday. The soldier was found at late Sunday in his living quarters after he did not return to his guard post. The incident is under investigation. The name of the soldier is being withheld pending notification of next of kin. U.K. Weighs Moving Troops Closer to Baghdad In London, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Tuesday that Britain needs to redeploy troops closer to Baghdad so that the insurgency in central Iraq can be dealt with ahead of Iraqi elections. The government is considering a U.S. request for a small number of British troops to be moved nearer the Iraqi capital to free up American forces for anti-insurgency operations. Straw said a final decision depended on advice from U.K. military commanders on the ground. Most British troops in Iraq are in the relatively peaceful south of the country, whereas the American sector is far more volatile. "The security situation in part of the country is very serious, it is of critical importance that the insurgency is dealt with," Straw told British Broadcasting Corp. radio. "Otherwise ... the elections would be flawed and that is why it is necessary for us to make an additional effort." National elections are scheduled in Iraq for January, but ongoing violence near Baghdad threatens to prevent voting in many areas and undermine the legitimacy of the whole process. Britain hasn't said how many troops might be redeployed, or where precisely they would go to. But military sources have said that if the request was granted, Britain's reserve regiment, the 650-strong First Battalion Black Watch, which is stationed near the southern port city of Basra, would be the obvious choice. In a response to violence, Australia's government said Tuesday that it was moving its embassy in Baghdad into the strife-torn city's heavily fortified Green Zone. The announcement came less than two days after a car bomb blast close to the Australian embassy in the fashionable Jadiriyah district killed six people late Sunday. No Australians were hurt in the blast, which authorities believe was aimed at an Iraqi police convoy. The Department of Foreign Affairs briefly confirmed a media report of the move on Tuesday, saying the embassy would be moved in the first half of next year. Australia has 920 troops in and around Iraq and sent 2,000 to take part in last year's U.S.-led invasion.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (53614)	10/19/2004 7:22:50 PM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

the Iraqi strategy is clearly to secure oil supplies nothing less, but much more smoke to distract within two years, we will be invited to stabilize a new Saudi regime, with some pretense of democracy and legitimacy the sad fact is that without steady oil supplies, the US Economy would wither the public would not sanction an occupation and commandeering of another nation's oil supply so we concocted a cock & bull story to invade TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ A THING TO BEHOLD at least we have their oil jeeeezz, jim p.s. we should have a national program for fuel cells and hydrogen plants all along three coastlines