BBC reporting the brave marines abandoning Fallujah to an all new Iraqi security force.
Face saving after heavy casualties in Fallujah by the highly trained marines.
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Face saving after heavy casualties in Fallujah by the highly trained marines.
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Cycling out for rest & reequip. Bad sign of our troop strength. Usually you expect the other side, the weaker side, to offer up all the breaks.. negotiations, cease-fire, etc all for the purpose of preserving the force. But it seems we're initiating all the breaks. Though I'd say it's not only due to a need to preserve the force but also disorder in the decision-making hierarchy.. political interference. All in all, not an impressive show of force if that's what it was intended as.
Arabic press sees US quagmire in Iraq](BBC NEWS | Middle East | Arabic press sees US quagmire in Iraq)
As the US sends in reinforcements to tackle the increasing violence in Iraq, and the situation appears to be deteriorating around the Sunni stronghold of Falluja, a deep crisis faces the US-led administration, according to Arabic papers.
The fighting around Falluja continues to make the headlines in the Iraqi press. Some Arabic papers condemn the use of military force to confront the upsurge in attacks, while others warn of the spread of violence to neighbouring countries, which they fear could threaten the stability of the entire region.
Resumed fighting threatens violent retaliation in Falluja.
Headline in Iraq’s Al-Zaman
US officials: We are running out of patience: We will regain control of Falluja.
Headline in Iraq’s Al-Mu’tamar
If Iraq is on fire, God forbid that the flame should spread to states even further afield than its neighbours… US officials promise to reconsider their policy to defuse the crisis in Falluja.
Iraq’s Al-Bayan
We now see on TV images of US marines defeated and dejected in Falluja. These are very different from the images we saw in the first weeks when they were all smiling.
Oman’s Al-Watan
[US President George W] Bush has freed the hands of his military officers to end the Falluja clashes. His declared quest for military success is aimed at achieving his ideological plan, but experience has shown that each attempt has just caused more failure.
London-based Al-Hayat
President Bush is the biggest threat to peace and security in the world… He is now living in a real quagmire. He is unable to withdraw from Iraq nor is he able to provide the huge human resources needed.
Commentary in Qatar’s Al-Watan
Whether the coalition leaders accept this reality or not, the occupation administration in Iraq is in a serious crisis.
Jordan’s Al-Dustur
The Americans have only themselves to blame for their own suffering in Iraq and for the suffering of Iraqi people… They have no other option but to backtrack on their mistakes, leaving internal Iraqi politics to the Iraqis.
Commentary in Baghdad edition of London-based Al-Sharq al-Awsat
Iraqis’ violent resistance has made the US reconsider its strategy.
Headline in Iraq’s Al-Yawm al-Akhar
The war on Iraq and its occupation… has pushed the entire Arab region and the world to the brink of dangerous instability.
Egypt’s Al-Ahram
Any factor causing instability in the region will affect its neighbouring countries… If political stability is achieved in Iraq, the problem of terrorism will, no doubt, end.
Commentary in London-based Al-Sharq al-Awsat
Given the present situation in Iraq, there doesn’t seem to be any hint of a way out of the crisis.
Saudi Arabia’s Al-Jazirah
The vision of the “Greater Middle East” cannot be achieved through US missiles.
Iran’s Al-Vefagh
There is clear evidence that the occupation is in complete deadlock.
Commentary in Lebanon’s Al-Mustaqbal
The US administration should bite its fingers in regret at its foolishness.
Libya’s Al-Shams
It seems the USA no longer has friends or followers in Iraq. The US has turned Iraq into an laboratory rat for experimentation without giving Iraqis the right to express their views.
UAE’s Akhbar al-Arab
The coalition forces’ insistence on resolving the security problem in Iraq through the barrel of the gun will not extinguish the fire which blazes day after day.
UAE’s Al-Bayan
Americans and their allies in Iraq have no magic solution to the out-of-control situation. So it is better to look for a political solution by giving the UN a chance.
Pan-Arab paper Al-Arab al-Alamiyah
BBC Monitoring, based in Caversham in southern England, selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages.
US force ‘to pull out of Falluja’
and:-
Attacks in Iraq kill 10 U.S. soldiers](http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/iraq/bal-iraq0429,0,6053618.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines)
It’s retreat, bloody noses and humiliation all round for the American occupiers.
Hail the victorious Iraqi resistance! :k:
US soldiers run for their lives
US force ‘to pull out of Falluja’
“US marines have agreed to withdraw from positions in the flashpoint Iraqi city of Falluja, according to an American military commander.”
Yipeee the pigs have had enough and are pulling their snouts out of the trough of blood that used to be Fallujah!
Now how about they pull out of Iraq then off the planet?
The people of Falluja and Najaf - in fact all Iraqi’s make us proud. May there be more such victories to come!
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And guess what?
They are handing it over to an Iraqi force led by …
Wait for it …
A General from Saddam’s army. 
The army they dissolved. The army they thought was unreliable, the generals they thought could not be trusted.
Now to save their own lives these brave marines are even bowing to those nasty generals from Saddam’s era. 
I know. Not only are they fleeing from Falluja under the fire of the victorious Falluja resistance, but they are in effect letting Saddam’s army go back in. Will they do the same in the Shia-majority towns as well?
Hail the victorious Iraqi resistance! :k:
I just read a quote from a marine today complaining about having to withdraw from Fallujah after losing men during the siege. It's going to be left to the Iraqis (Saddam's former officers) to take charge. Why? Because the siege of Fallujah was a public relations disaster. Is it really so different from what's going on in Wana.
Granted the garland business was sickening, but that's politics for you.
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The people of falujah celebrating the withdrawal of marines.
Do you really think this is over?
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is it being attacked by the invaders, or invaded by the attackers? Get your biased facts straight will you!
Any halfway intelligent civilians would've gotten a long way from there by now.
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Invaders (the USA,UK and rest of em). the muslims of Iraq hav every right to kick out da colonialists western forces
No more talk of going getting the killers of the 4 American’s.
No more talk of going after the never seen (or proven) “foreign fighters”.
No more talk of defeating the mighty Iraqi resistance.
After 140 American soldiers killed, and a thousand injured it’s time to retreat…
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and for the victors to come forth.
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Members of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps and Iraqi civilians wave their national flag as they greet Iraqi Major General, Jassem Mohamed Saleh - who once served in Saddam’s Republican Guard
May God bless the victorious Iraqi resistance! :k:
Well, I use to say, jaab geedar ki moat aati hey tho wo shaher ki taraf baghta hey. Jaam ameerikan kutay ki moaat aati hey tho who 38 parallel ki taraf baghta hey…
I will have to re-phrase the last entry or should I say make another entry in the hsitory books. 
here it goes.. jaab amreekan kutay ki moaat ati hey tho wo falluja ki taraf baghta hey najaf ki taraf baghta hey sadr ki taraf baghta hey..
And Grand Aytoullah has not even given orders to put chappal in action…
Amreekans, welcome to the land of red carpet. 
yeah sala day ones say warn ker reha hey… phir bolnya ka hay “bring em on” :rotfl:
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OG you keep using the word insurgents. Not withstanding the biased reporting by your media can you please explain how canyou call people resisting your army insurgents. They are trying to liberate their country. Were the french, Dutch and all otehrs who resisted the Germans during WW insurgents or freedom fighters. Were the Afghanis who resisted the Russians in the 80's freedom fighters or insurgents. Read your own media and government statements relating to say Afghanistan during the Russian occupation before replying?
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Actually the WW term was The Resistance.
I believe the Afghanis were our friend when Russia was our enemy.
Thoughts.
Only hear about Iraqi's who want U.S. troops to go home.
What happens to the Iraqi's who supported U.S. deposing Saddam?
If U.S. leaves tomorrow. Who is going to rebuild Iraq and how and with what?
Would Iraq be absorbed by Iran?
Would there be reprisals by Iraqi's against fellow Iraqi's?
Would Avgerage Iraqi people be empowered?
Would there be civil war?
Would Saddam again take control?
Would there be yet another Saddam-like person take control?
What would life be like for Average Iraqi's?
What do think would happen?
What do think should happen?
‘We Won’: Fallujah Rejoices in Withdrawal
FALLUJAH, Iraq, May 1 – Covering their faces with checkered head scarves, militiamen loyal to a former Iraqi army general jubilantly took to the streets of this battle-scarred city Saturday to celebrate what they called a triumph over withdrawing U.S. Marines.
As the militiamen drove through Fallujah in trucks and congregated on deserted street corners, residents flashed V-for-victory signs and mosques broadcast celebratory messages proclaiming triumph over the Americans.
“We won,” said one of the militiamen, a former soldier who gave his name only as Abu Abdullah, meaning the father of Abdullah. “We didn’t want the Americans to enter the city and we succeeded.”
Meanwhile, attacks against U.S. soldiers and foreign contractors working for the occupation authority continued unabated following the bloodiest month for U.S. forces since President Bush declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq a year ago.
One U.S. soldier and two contractors were killed Saturday in separate attacks near the northern city of Mosul, while another U.S. soldier died of wounds sustained in a roadside bombing a day earlier. The military also announced Saturday that two U.S. sailors were killed the day before in an attack in Anbar province in western Iraq.
‘We Won’: Fallujah Rejoices in Withdrawal](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59357-2004May1.html)
Fallujah is too hot to handle for the so called brave marines. They only like to occupy places where the people are submissive to thier will.
People of Fallujah sacrificed a lot many people killed most of them women, children and old people. Even under intense bombardment they did`nt back down to the bullies mashallah :k: lesson for all people under occupation, if you back down you will be enslaved.
a well earned and well deserved victory for the people of fallujah, they had patience and resolve and allah helped them in front of the biggest and mighties army in the world. be it political or any other excuse they give for not flattening fallujah, it was Allah who really ties their hands and we all should praise Him for it...
subhanallah
iraqi resistance zindabad, bush LED terrorists murdabad 
In the month of April no less than 1214 US soldiers were injured or killed in Iraq - such HUGE losses never seen in any comparable period in the Iraq war before that.
All thanks to the brave and victorious Iraqi resistance in Falluja, which sent US soldiers fleeing like chickens, and inspired resistance all over Iraq. :k: