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To: LindyBill who wrote (84660)	11/7/2004 1:47:41 PM
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COMMMAND POST - Insurgents Invite Journalists to Embed By Alan Brain From Reuters via the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) : Fallujah insurgents besieged by US and Iraqi troops have invited journalists to “embed” with them to report their side of the war.”All media will be allowed into Fallujah to witness the crusade against Islam and see the real face of America. US media will not be excluded,” said a statement by the Fallujah Mujahideen Shura (council), composed of insurgent leaders, tribal chiefs and Sunni Muslim clerics. “We will protect and transport them to the location of the events. There will be a special building for the journalists.” […] The few journalists remaining in Fallujah, which has been the target of repeated US air strikes for weeks, are mainly Iraqis, although some work for foreign news outlets.... Marines face Suicide Bombs, Cyanide in Fallujah By Alan Brain From The Sunday Times and AFP via The Australian : As US troops gathered to pray outside Fallujah, rebel leaders said more than 100 cars laden with explosives had been distributed throughout the rebel Sunni stronghold to be detonated when US marines mount a long-awaited ground offensive.One commander said 300 foreign fighters had volunteered for suicide bombings as US forces laid siege to the stronghold of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted man in Iraq. Some of the foreign fighters would be used in 118 vehicles already rigged with explosives, he said; others would be waiting in booby-trapped homes for US and Iraqi soldiers hunting from house to house for Zarqawi’s fighters. One commander pointed out bridges, a railway track and several networks of narrow alleys in three districts of the city, explaining they had been mined. Snipers had been recruited from other cities by Fallujah’s commanders and were already in position at the weekend. The insurgents said they had surface-to-air missiles with which to counter attacks by helicopter gunships. They also claimed that a number of missiles had been tipped with deadly chemicals, including cyanide. One said these would be fired at US forces from their rear. […] During a night spent under US bombardment, rebels sat around the computer watching videos of “resistance actions”. One piece of footage repeated over and over again was of a young fighter from the Mahdi Army of radical Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr being shot dead as he tried to launch a rocket-propelled grenade against a US position. The men watching this film, although not fighters themselves, analysed the scene much as a group of youths might replay a controversial moment in a football match. They concluded that the Shi’ite was an amateur compared with the Sunni insurgents who would soon be squaring up to the marines in Fallujah. “The Shi’ites are not as well trained as our fighters here in Fallujah,” said Muhanad, a car mechanic. “Ours are professionals and the Americans will soon learn their lesson.”...