U.S. troops on Thursday promised an "overwhelming" response to brutal killings in the Iraqi town of Falluja and vowed to hunt down those who shot, burned and mutilated four American contractors.
Marines took positions[That's 25,000 Marines who just rotated in.--Jen] on the outskirts of the restive town west of Baghdad where insurgents ambushed the contractors on Wednesday.
"Coalition forces will respond," the U.S. army's deputy director of operations Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told a news conference. "They are coming back and they are going to hunt down the people responsible for this bestial act.
"It will be at a time and a place of our choosing. It will be methodical, it will be precise and it will be overwhelming."
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A leaflet distributed in Falluja on Thursday claimed that the previously unknown "group of Sheikh Ahmad Yassin" had killed the Americans in response to the Israeli assassination of Hamas spiritual leader Yassin last month. It was not immediately possible to verify the claim.
Falluja was relatively quiet on Thursday, but residents said more bloody killings should be expected.
"The Americans may think it is unusual but this is what they should expect. They show up in places and shoot civilians so why can't they be killed?" Falluja shop worker Amir said.
[Notice their craven lies. The "Yassin group" acts as if the atrocious murders were payback for Israel's assassination of Yassin and some of the townspeople talk about our soldiers in the same way that John F'in Kerry did when he was head of VVAW alleging that they kill civilians. Liars all.--j.t.]
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The U.S governor of Iraq Paul Bremer vowed to hunt down those responsible for ambushing the contractors, and those who then torched the corpses and dragged them through the streets before hanging them from a bridge.
"The acts we have seen were despicable and inexcusable," he said. "They violate the tenets of all religions, Islam included, as well as the foundations of civilized society. Their deaths will not go unpunished."
As the violence sparked renewed concern among foreign organizations working in Iraq, a high-profile U.S.-sponsored trade fair for companies rebuilding Iraq was postponed.
This is only fitting, since a place that kills civilians and committs atrocities on their remains isn't ready or fit for civilized trade and commerce.
Before you try and stage another "Mogadishu," you should check to see if the President of the United States is still an appeaser of terrorists and someone who doesn't know how to use the miliary...
Oops. You mean he's not? Bush isn't Clinton.
(A fact for which I thank God every day!)
GWB will bring the fight to the Enemy "at the day and the hour of our choosing!"
Tick, tick, tick....
Iraq and America now wait for the barbarians to meet their punishment.
One of the latest reports notes that an eerie calm has settled over the town tonight.
The Marines must be sweating them out.
Good move.
Semper Fi and Let's Roll.
IslamoFascism Delendo Est.
