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To: CYBERKEN who wrote (658509)	11/7/2004 9:32:56 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

As a life-long pro-American who has patiently lived through the American peoples' mind boggling ERRORS in electing LBJ, Carter and Clinton, I can tell you left wing sewer rats that you don't have to eat your piece. There will be more aggregate mistakes in the future, and you can even, someday again, get all excited for a while at the prospect of your hatred of America finally paying off. And you rutting pigs who have murdered over 40 million Americans in the womb since Roe v Wade in 1973 can take heart. Your Auchwitz-like ovens are going to continue to smoke away for a few more years, at least...

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (658509)	11/7/2004 9:36:10 AM
From: Paul van Wijk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Mission accomplished, part 572. Another glorious milestone in the winning-the-war-on-terrorism-tour. Amid Surge of Violence Iraq Declares Martial Law Interim Government Declined to Say Whether Fallujah Attack is Near By William Branigin Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 7, 2004; 8:44 AM Iraq's interim government today declared a state of emergency amid preparations for a possible assault on the rebel-held city of Fallujah and a surge of violence by insurgents who have killed more than 50 people in past two days. A spokesman for Prime Minister Ayad Allawi announced the state of emergency, equivalent to martial law, at a news conference in Baghdad, saying it would apply throughout the country except for the Kurdish areas of northern Iraq and would last for 60 days. The spokesman, Thaer Naqib, declined to say whether the state of emergency signals that U.S. forces are about to launch an offensive against insurgents in Fallujah. But he noted that "the situation is worsening in this area," adding, "Any obstacle will be removed," the Associated Press reported. He also said the government was committed to restoring order so that Iraq could hold national elections as scheduled in January. Naqib did not provide details of how the emergency would be applied. He said Allawi would give specifics in a news conference tomorrow. About 10,000 U.S. Marines and soldiers are massed on the outskirts of Fallujah awaiting the go-ahead from Allawi for a ground assault aimed at ridding the city 35 miles west of Baghdad of Iraqi and foreign insurgents, who are estimated to number at least a few thousand. U.S. officials suspect that the group of Jordanian militant Abu Musab Zarqawi has a base there. Talks with Fallujah authorities to persuade them to give up the foreign fighters have been unsuccessful. The announcement of the state of emergency came as insurgents attacked police stations northwest of Baghdad, gunned down Iraqi officials south of the city and set off explosions in the capital. One U.S. soldier was killed and another wounded when their convoy came under attack west of Baghdad today, the U.S. military said. No other details were immediately provided. There were conflicting accounts of the attacks on police stations in western Anbar province, which includes Fallujah. Police and hospital officials quoted by AP said 22 people were killed -- including at least seven policemen who were lined up and shot execution-style -- when rebels using bombs and small-arms fire attacked three police stations at dawn in the towns of Haditha and Haqlaniyah about 135 miles northwest of Baghdad. According to Reuters news agency, the attackers in Haditha captured the police station there after a 90-minute gun battle in which they fired mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, then took 21 captured Iraqi policemen to an oil-pumping station and shot them to death in cold blood. The agency said a total of 23 policemen were killed in three attacks. Last month, insurgents massacred 49 unarmed Iraqi army recruits after capturing them on a road northeast of Baghdad. Zarqawi's group claimed responsibility for the killings. The group also claimed in a message posted on the Internet that it was behind attacks Saturday in Samarra in which more than 30 people, most of them Iraqi policemen, were killed. Attackers stormed an Iraqi police station and set off at least two suicide car bombs in those attacks. In other violence today, gunmen killed three officials from Diyala province as they were traveling to the city of Karbala to attend the funeral of a colleague who was assassinated earlier in the week.