- The end of another year in which the world continues
to indulge a twisted dream of global nightmares-but that's a lousy substitute
for living!
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- In the 'Loose Ends' file; a number of inexplicable footnotes
are finally beginning to answer some larger questions. Back in 06, just
after the November Elections: that were going to change this countries
direction in Iraq-yet all that happened only launched us ever-deeper in
the opposite direction. Rummy 'resigned' and Bates was appointed, while
Pelosi had just begun to speak cowardice into the Congressional record
of national shame-where her words have come to live with 'permanent failure.'
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- A week ago I wondered about the official casualty tolls
when these were contrasted with what the Veteran's Administration has
recorded. So I wrote to some people about it, and then I wrote an article.
(1) The key component of that story was the huge disparity between the
numbers given by the VA and the ones given by the US Department of War
What blew me away was that members of the public wrote to tell me, saying
that "the VA was obviously lying." I expected that most people
would believe the White House was lying but - Why would the Veteran's
Administration lie about the number of dead Veterans in Iraq &Afghanistan?
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- Then there was Rummy's resignation, after the elections
of '06. At the time pundits said, that the Oval Office didn't want to
give any ammunition to the opposition, before the elections. That made
sense, but Rumsfeld had been around a very long time and could defend
himself on virtually any topic-true he was a lousy Secretary for the War
Department, but that was nothing new, so why resign?
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- Then I remembered something that I thought I'd lost in
one of the many crashes of my system, which was the story of the battle
that destroyed Forward Base Falcon in October of 06. Three thousand US
personnel were stationed there when it came under attack. The fires burned
for days and could be seen from high above the earth yet this attack
was not covered by American media: It was however covered by 'other media'
and the details were grim. There were Three-Hundred and Nineteen dead
in this attack on the first day, yet nothing about these casualties was
mentioned in either the daily or the weekly body counts. So when people
tried to defend the government's numbers I couldn't help but remember
that IF America had ever had over three hundred troops die in any single
event in Iraq (totals for no single month were ever that high) - then
the headlines would have been shattering, and the troops would have been
gone as quickly as we left Somalia after one Blackhawk went down!
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- This attack DID happen and it was closely wrapped in
secrecy in the USA-which meant that one man would one day have to 'own'
this cover-up, and that would not be the Decider. It would be Donald
Rumsfeld; the now former US Secretary of War. That made sense, especially
given the list of the names of the dead that have not been officially
recognized (but not reported) as having been killed at Falcon Forward
Base in 2006. Here's the list ~ print it out, its eleven pages long. http://houston.indymedia.org/news/
2006/10/53584.php (2)
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- This explains, for me, why we suddenly got a new Secretary
of War: but what it fails to explain is why so many Americans still aren't
interested in what happened over that October week. True this was in
2006 when this US base burned to the ground, but the dead need to be remembered.
It also explains why the Decider classified all US casualties as SECRET,
at the beginning of his wars-of-occupation.
- "Late on the evening of October 10, 2006, Iraqi
resistance groups lobbed mortar and rocket rounds into the immense 'Forward
Base Falcon,' the largest American military base in Iraq, located 13 km
south of the Green Zone in Baghdad. In addition to accurate mortar fire,
Grad and Katyusha rockets were also used.
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- Falcon base was designed to house a large contingent
of American troops, mostly drawn from the 4th Infantry Division, stationed
at Fr. Bliss, Texas. At the time of the attack, there were approximately
3000 men inside the camp, which also was filled with ammunition supplies,
fuel, tanks and vehicles.
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- Iraqi contractors had assisted in the construction of
the camp, which occupied nearly a square mile and was surrounded with
guard tower-studded high concrete walls, and it is now apparent that the
Resistance movement had been given important targets from "sources
familiar with the layout" of the base.
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- After the initial shelling, fuel and ammunition stores
began to erupt with massive explosions that could be heard, and seen,
miles away inside the Green Zone where U.S. military and diplomatic units
were heavily guarded.
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- The explosions, all of them termed "immense"
by BBC reporters, continued throughout the night.
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- In response, US aircraft indiscriminately rocketed and
bombed various parts of the city, BBC and AFP correspondents reported,
trying to knock out the launch sites of the rockets
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- The BBC's Andrew North, in Baghdad, said the explosions
started at about 2300 (2100 BST) and were becoming "ever more frequent"
as the huge fires spread throughout the base, punctuated by tremendous
explosions as more fuel and ammunition dumps ignited.
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- "Intelligence indicates that civilians aligned with
a militia organization were responsible for last night's mortar attack,"
said Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Withington, spokesman for the U.S. 4th
Infantry Division.
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- An after action report, issued by the Department of Defense,
stated that: "On October 10, 2006, at approximately 10:40 p.m., a
82mm mortar round, fired by militia forces from a residential area in
Abu T-Shir, caused a fire at an Ammunition Supply Point (ASP) at FOB
Falcon. The ASP, containing tank and artillery rounds, in addition to
smaller caliber ammunition, set off a series of large explosions. About
100 troops from the 4th Infantry Division were reported to be stationed
at the base at the time, but no injuries were reported." (Emphasis
added.) "The damage to the area will not degrade the operational
capability of MND-B (Multinational Division Baghdad),"
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- When the flames had been brought under control on the
morning of the 11th of October, primarily because the entire camp had
been gutted, nine large American military transports with prominent Red
Cross markings were observed by members of the foreign media taking off,
laded with the dead and the wounded.
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- Over 300 American troops, including U.S. Army and Marines,
CIA agents and U.S. translators were casualties and there also were 165
seriously injured requiring major medical attention and 39 suffering
lesser injuries 122 members of the Iraqi armed forces were killed and
90 seriously injured members of same, were also evacuated to the U.S.
military hospital at al-Habbaniyah located some 70km west of Baghdad.
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- Satellite pictures and aerial photographs from neutral
sources showed that Camp Falcon suffered major structural damage and almost
all the U.S. military's supply of small arms ammunition, artillery and
rocket rounds, tons of fuel, six Apache helicopters, an uncounted but
large number of soft-skinned vehicles such as Humvees and supply trucks
were damaged or totally destroyed. Foreign press observers noted "an
endless parade" of military vehicle recovery units dragging burnt-out
heavy tanks and armored personnel carriers to another base outside Baghdad.
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- Many of the walls and towers of the camp were damaged
or leveled as were many of the barracks, maintenance depots, and there
was considerable damage to the huge mess halls that could hold 3000 soldiers,
the huge recreation center with its basketball courts and indoor swimming
pools and all the administration buildings
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- Although official U.S. DoD statements indicated that
there were no deaths; that only a hundred men were inside the base guarding
billions of dollars of vital military equipment and that there were "only
two minor injuries to personnel," passes belief and certainly reality
is more painful than propaganda.
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- Not only has the U.S. military machine lost much of its
armor and transport, and its entire reserves of ammunition and special
fuel, but the casualty list for only the first day is over 300."
(3)
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- The losses in this attack might be explained as an Iraqi
response to the second attack by US Marines on Fallujah - The Second Battle
of Fallujah because every action in nature, produces an equal and
opposite reaction, in the natural balance of the world. Just another 'Loose
End' that these year end thoughts brought to mind, but on the morning
news today - the American Junta is again claiming progress, if not victory,
with the pullout of the Brits from Basra. . . right, time will tell.
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- We went to war on a pack of lies, and we're still there
on a different pack of lies, so why should anyone ever believe anything
about these wars, when it comes ONLY from those who created these barbaric
aggressions?
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- Whenever a nation cannot admit its losses then
it cannot live up to history's inexorable record that is unforgiving in
the long run. The same is true of the events this government cites in
911. These may only be a number of Loose Ends, but together they seem
to begin to fashion a hang-man's noose for those who have been directing
these nightmares since 1991,
- And lying about every aspect of their involvement in
that tragic day! (4)
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- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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- 1) Bushwhacked!
- http://www.kirwanesque.com/politics/articles/2007/art104.htm
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- 2) The Season of Taking Footnote 2
- http://www.kirwanesque.com/politics/articles/2006/art62.htm
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- 3) Another Disastrous Coverup Brian Herring
- http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2547.htm
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- 4) Loose Change the final cut
- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6499230265406230477&q=loose
+change+final +cut&total=192&start=0&num=100&so=0&type=search&plindex=1?
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