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Friday, April 2, 2004
THE BATM
The MclrOSC Adventure Awaits..
Melrose Student Suites are currently seeking
energetic, adventurous student
leaders
to be guides in developing active
communities. Our
Community Ambassadors
are live-in student staff members
responsible for developing community and
marketing Melrose Student Suites.
Go to www.melrose.com for an application!!
Applications
Due April 7th
Tina Kuo
Director of Resident
& Community Relations
979-680-3680
Please return applications tt:
Melrose College Station
601 Luther St. West
College Station, TX 77840
St. Mary's University Alumni Association
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U.S. general vows to ‘pacify’ Falluj
after American contractors kill
By Sameer N. Yacoub
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FALLUJAH, Iraq — A U.S. general vowed an
“overwhelming” response to the murder and
mutilation of four American contractors, but
U.S. troops stayed out of this anti-American city
Thursday and fearful Iraqi police took no action.
Residents said they were ready to take on the
Americans if they try to enter Fallujah, where
schools and shops remained open a day after
insurgents ambushed the contractors’ SUVs and
mobs strung up two of their charred corpses on
an iron bridge spanning the Euphrates River.
“We wish that they would try to enter
Fallujah so we’d let hell break loose” Ahmed
al-Dulaimi said. “We will not let any foreigner
enter Fallujah.” said Sameer Sami. “Yesterday’s
attack is proof of how much we hate the
Americans.”
Near Fallujah on Thursday, insurgents set off
a bomb beside a U.S. military patrol, wounding
three troops. Associated Press Television News
footage showed smoke and fire pouring from an
abandoned Humvee on the side of
a road.
In Ramadi, west of Fallujah,
six Iraqi civilians died and
four were wounded Wednesday
evening in a car bombing at a
market, said Lt. Col. Steve
Murray, a coalition spokesman.
Also Thursday, two explosions
near a U.S.-escorted fuel convoy
in Baghdad wounded at least
one Iraqi. APTN footage showed
U.S. soldiers putting a wounded
person on a stretcher in an
armored vehicle.
U.S. troops stayed out of
Airborne Division and conducted patrols
to fierce firefights in the city.
The Marines enter Fallujah only o
when they conduct a military operationt
city. The Marines were apparently
Fallujah on Wednesday when mobsdra
mutilated and burned bodies of t
Americans through the streets.
Apparently fearful Iraqi police in
stayed away from the mobs, and pickedc
bodies hours later only at the reque
American troops.
On Thursday, police manned roadsided
points and remained at their posts but wk
conducting raids or operations related!
killings. Two officers told The Associated
they were afraid, while a third said:
should we interfere? It’s none of our bus
It was unclear why the American conta
were traveling unescorted in such a dans
area. The four worked for Black water!*
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five American soldiers onftiHe
same day. and said “their i^etb
will not go unpunished."
“Yesterday's events in Fail
are dramatic examples of
ongoing struggle betweenti^ime
dignity and barbarism. Bts
said at a ceremony forpo
cadets in Baghdad. "Tlie
we have seen were
Fallujah on Thursday despite pledges from a mil
itary commander to stamp out resistance in a city
that is home to militant forces who appear to
enjoy the support — or at least acquiescence —
of a significant part of the population. The city
was a stronghold of support for Saddam Hussein,
who was ousted in the invasion a year ago.
“We will pacify that city. ... It will be at the
time and place of our choosing.” Brig. Gen.
Mark Kimmitt said, pledging to hunt down
those who carried out Wednesday’s killings,
which were reminiscent of the televised abuse
of the corpses of American soldiers in Somalia
in 1993.
Kimmitt promised a response that will be
“deliberate” and “overwhelming,” and said
troops didn’t respond at the time for fear of
ambushes or the insurgents might use of civil
ians as human shields. He also said U.S. forces
took into account that the contractors were
already dead.
“We are not going to do a pell-mell rush into
the city,” he said. “A pre-emptive attack into the
city could have taken a bad situation and made it
even worse.”
Fallujah, 35 miles west of Baghdad, has been
the scene of some of the worst violence since the
beginning of the U.S.-led occupation a year ago.
Last month, U.S. Marines took over authority
of Fallujah and surrounding areas from the 82nd
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religions, including Islam.”
Samir Shaker Mahmoud, a member of
U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Councils
hoped the response of the U.S. military nlBiS
area would not be based on "revenge."
Iraqi Interior Minister Nori al Badraii “2
promised to send forces into Fallujahbutdiii
say when.
“We were shocked because our
beliefs reject such behavior,” police Lt.!
Abdullah said in a reference to the afmbi
the bodies.
Major newspapers in the United Slates:
graphic photos Thursday of the charred W
while the images were largely stafcil
American television as too homfic.
Overseas, broadcasters and newspapers;
ried the gruesome images, though some Lom
tabloids blurred the photos and Arab televe
obscured more gruesome footage.
Some European newspapers speculatedati
a quicker U.S. troop withdrawal andotherssj
it could serve as a new standard for attacks
But Secretary of State Colin Powell saidi
United States would not be “runouf’o
“America has the ability to stay,
enemy and defeat an enemy,” Powell, wlioi
attending a donor conference in Berlin foil
rebuilding of Afghanistan, said in an in
on German ZDF television.
Friday, April 2,2004
9:00 pm-1:00 am
La Orquesta Salmerum Salsa Band & Salsa
Dance Lessons inMSC Flagroom In Collaboration w/
MSC CAMAC, LT. Jordan Institute, & Puerto Rican Student fe
* L0TR: Return of the King at 6:00 & 9:45 pm infitiif
$1 w/ TAMU ID In Collaboration w/ MSC Film Society
Tree activities in the MSC Basement: pool, bowling, arts & crafts
and DDR in Collaboration with Cepheid Variable
* FREE FOOD and Drinks!!!
* PRIZES: Nintendo Game Cube & Digital Can®
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