[Deel 761]Dood aan de revolutie

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Op donderdag 10 november 2005 00:37 schreef Monidique het volgende:
Hoi.

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"WP [i.e., white phosphorus rounds] proved to be an effective and versatile munition. We used it for screening missions at two breeches and, later in the fight, as a potent psychological weapon against the insurgents in trench lines and spider holes when we could not get effects on them with HE. We fired 'shake and bake' missions at the insurgents, using WP to flush them out and HE to take them out."

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What the article does not say, however, is that there is no way you can use white phosphorus like that without forming a deadly chemical cloud that kills everything within a tenth of a mile in all directions from where it hits. Obviously, the effect of such deadly clouds weren't just psychological in nature.

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Bogert is a mortar team leader who directed his men to fire round after round of high explosives and white phosphorus charges into the city Friday and Saturday, never knowing what the targets were or what damage the resulting explosions caused.

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The boom kicked dust around the pit as they ran through the drill again and again, sending a mixture of burning white phosphorus and high explosives they call "shake 'n' bake" into a cluster of buildings where insurgents have been spotted all week.

They say they have never seen what they've hit, nor did they talk about it as they dusted off their breakfast and continued their hilarious routine of personal insults and name-calling.

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Op donderdag 10 november 2005 00:56 schreef Drugshond het volgende:
MTV - BodyCount...

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Op donderdag 10 november 2005 01:06 schreef Drugshond het volgende:
1984 is passe..... welcome to the matrix.

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Op donderdag 10 november 2005 01:08 schreef Tafkahs het volgende:
Daar zou iemand eens een sig op moeten maken

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Op donderdag 10 november 2005 01:15 schreef Drugshond het volgende:

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Het sociale failliet van de maatschappij volgt hetzelfde pad als de technische vooruitgang.
Om de 2 jaar, verdubbelt het aantal sociale onrusten terwijl de prijs voor onze veiligheid hetzelfde blijft.

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Op donderdag 10 november 2005 01:19 schreef Tafkahs het volgende:
Achterlijk he? De boel moet eerst helemaal in elkaar klappen voordat zoiets duidelijk wordt..

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Op donderdag 10 november 2005 01:19 schreef du_ke het volgende:
Truste kipjes .

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U.S. diplomats say that Chinese police have warned luxury hotels in China of possible terrorist attacks sometime next week. The warning Wednesday comes as preparations for President Bush's visit to Beijing later this month are under way.

The U.S. Embassy says the Chinese police warning was specific: Islamic extremists are planning to attack five and four-star hotels in China "sometime over the course of next week". The embassy advised Americans staying at luxury hotels to remain vigilant and to exercise caution.

The warning comes as Chinese and U.S. officials are preparing for President Bush's November 19 arrival in Beijing. A host of U.S. officials including U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and former President George Bush, the father of the current president, also are visiting Beijing next week.

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Kamil Ahmed, a 40-year-old resident with long-standing ties to local insurgent groups, said the break started in the summer, when al-Qaida in Iraq started killing police who showed up for work, breaking an insurgent agreement to let the officers do their jobs.

The split intensified when the group assassinated several sheiks, in mosques, for criticizing its actions. Insurgent groups also went against al-Qaida in Iraq and urged citizens to vote in the constitutional referendum in October and in the upcoming December national elections. Al-Qaida in Iraq had characterized voting as cooperating with the Americans.

Ahmed said the final straw was about money. He said businesses and even some government offices around Ramadi had been paying local insurgents protection money, as much as $70,000 a month. Al-Qaida in Iraq demanded the money.

"Al-Qaida said they needed the money to operate. The others needed it to create their own footprint on the insurgent effort," he said. "This is the basis for all armed groups, the fight for money and glory. What we have now is a very severe split. Open warfare isn't far behind."