EFL - Marines doing what they do so well
Just a day after U.S. officials announced that a fragile cease-fire in the Fallujah was being extended, Marines were engaged Monday in an intense firefight with insurgents in a northern district of the besieged city. The firefight began Monday morning after a Marine platoon left their small base and moved 200 yards away to occupy two small houses. Enemy forces opened up with barrage of rockets, mortar and automatic weapons. In Fallujah, coalition mortars hit a mosque in the northwest edge of the city and marines on the ground called in air support and were joined by two tanks and two Cobra attack helicopters that shelled insurgents. Four marines suffered shrapnel wounds. |