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To: michael97123 who wrote (153674)	12/8/2004 3:47:26 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Mike, since you don't remember that Sammara, like Fallujah, has been "cleaned out:" theallineed.com "Iraqi government says Samarra under control, US pounds Fallujah "In this operation we cleaned up the city from all the bad guys and terrorists," Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib told a few reporters inside Samarra. "This operation is the best operation we have done in all Iraqi areas," he said from inside the Samarra city hall, around which fierce fighting took place on Friday before it was recaptured. "The Iraqi government has taken control of the situation in Samarra except for some pockets of resistance," a government spokesman told AFP, a day after close to 100 insurgents were killed in a massive US-Iraqi onslaught. Sporadic explosions were still heard in the afternoon Saturday, but the bulk of the fighting appeared to be over, AFP correspondents on the ground said, adding that most of the city was deprived of water and electricity. On Friday, a massive force of 3,000 US troops and 2,000 Iraqi auxiliaries stormed the city, a key bastion in the Sunni insurgent belt north of Baghdad. Iraq's National Security Advisor Qassim Daoud claimed forces entered the city at the request of Samarra's residents and vowed the operation would continue until the area is "cleansed of terrorists, criminals and former regime elements". The first major push to reclaim insurgent-controlled areas in the run-up to January elections was also the most significant military operation in Iraq since an unsuccessful US onslaught on Fallujah west of Baghdad in April........" Maybe that short memory for the errors, misjudgements and outright deceptions of our policy makers accounts for your seemingly perpetual optimism that the latest, greatest "hopes" will be fulfilled. Of course while we wait our soldiers keep killing and dying. Ed