November 16, 2004

Makin' progess
Freedom is on the march as more cities across Iraq erupt into chaos, violence.

Massive rebel counter-attack rolls across Iraq:

As Falluja is pounded into gravel, the insurgents who slipped out the backdoor are now setting Iraq aflame.

Guerrillas in Baquba, Mosul, Kirkuk and Suwaira stormed police stations, set oil wells ablaze and struck at American military convoys with suicide car bombs, routing Iraqi security forces in several coordinated assaults and severely damaging parts of the country's petroleum-based economic lifeline.

The wave of attacks across the Sunni Muslim heartland suggested that guerrillas were ready to carry on the war despite the loss of their safe haven in Falluja. The most intense fighting took place in the morning in Baquba, northeast of the capital. Insurgents there ambushed American troops near a downtown police station and laid siege to another station in a southern suburb.


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