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Another Disastrous Coverup

Forward Base Falcon Disaster

by Brian Harring

Baghdad's sky is illuminated by huge explosions in the Iraqi capital (pic AAP)

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.

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.

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.

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.

The explosions, all of them termed “immense” by BBC reporters, continued throughout the night.

In response, US aircraft indiscriminately rocketed and bombed various parts of the city, BBC and AFP correspondents eported, trying to knock out the launch sites of the rockets

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.

“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.

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),"

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.


TBRNews.org - the link to this story

Like a lot of people from another country, i am looking on at the elections in America with intrest. This articule made me think of other stories i have heard about Iraq. Such as the one concerning fatally wounded US soldiers (Basically, any that may die are being airlifted to bases in Germany purely so they die away from Iraq - then the State Department can honestly say that they didnt die IN Iraq - This keeps the death toll down)

This articule made me think, i have seen nothing on the news (BBC, SKY NEWS or that nasty biased station that calls itself FOX NEWS). Is it really possible for this to be kept quiet?

300+ seems like a huge number to me.

What does everyone think? Or has anyone heard of it from a different source?

manic

I do remember a short story on cnn about the explosions., Complete with
film footage over the shoulder of the reporter, from a long distance.
It was unclear as to what had happened. That was it, end of story,
but the fire, which was at night was pretty damn big. Wouldnt shock
or suprise me if there was a cover up. We the U.S. are masters of
propaganda, just look at all the crap civilians were fed during vietnam.

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superflysmith

The military has to report the deaths to family members and the media always gives the names and where the soldiers are from. It seems very unlikely that 300 dead soldiers would escape the media attention.

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jeffdrummer

Queue: Twilight zone music

Kennedy was shot by the CIA. The 9-11 attacks were planned by the government. Crack was spread by the FBI. AIDS was made by the American government. North Korea is arming Mexico

this is just another nut-theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory

Myth-UK

And WMD's are believed to have been found in Iraq - 60% of Fox news viewers!

Kennedy being shot made a lot of ppl in goverment rich (Vietnam)

9/ 11 When people are being told not to fly on that day by goverment officals (San Fransico Mayor by Rice).

Drugs were brought into America by the CIA

AIDS - dunno tbh.

I thought most Mexicans wanted to be in America?

Go to that link i gave, there is a list of all the effected servicemen/ women.

jeffdrummer

I did, then Google the names... it will really make you laugh how stupid the article is.