The Australian: 'You shoot like a goat-herder' [April 17, 2004]:
IN Fallujah's darkened, empty streets, US troops blast AC/DC's 'Hell's Bells' and other rock music full volume from a huge speaker, hoping to grate on the nerves of the city's gunmen and give a laugh to Marines along the front line.
Unable to advance farther into the city, an Army psychological operations team hopes a mix of heavy metal and insults shouted in Arabic - including, 'You shoot like a goat-herder' - will draw gunmen to step forward and attack. But no luck this night.
Six days after negotiations halted a US offensive against insurgents in this city, Marines continue carving out front line positions and hope for orders to push forward. Many are questioning the value of truce talks with an enemy who continues to launch attacks.
'These guys don't have a centralised leader; there just here to fight. I don't see what negotiations are going to do,' said Captain Shannon Johnson, a company commander for the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment."
IN Fallujah's darkened, empty streets, US troops blast AC/DC's 'Hell's Bells' and other rock music full volume from a huge speaker, hoping to grate on the nerves of the city's gunmen and give a laugh to Marines along the front line.
Unable to advance farther into the city, an Army psychological operations team hopes a mix of heavy metal and insults shouted in Arabic - including, 'You shoot like a goat-herder' - will draw gunmen to step forward and attack. But no luck this night.
Six days after negotiations halted a US offensive against insurgents in this city, Marines continue carving out front line positions and hope for orders to push forward. Many are questioning the value of truce talks with an enemy who continues to launch attacks.
'These guys don't have a centralised leader; there just here to fight. I don't see what negotiations are going to do,' said Captain Shannon Johnson, a company commander for the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment."
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