Why do these guys all sound alike?

Wretchard has a long quote from Iraqi Resistance. It all reads like 1930s Communism press releases, something you'd get from Cuba or Red China or North Korea. Do they not know English or did they just learn it from Marxist revolutionaries?

Al-Fallujah?s Resistance fighters waged a fierce battle against the US attackers that lasted some 35 minutes (from 7:45pm to 8:20pm, local time) and were able to repulse the US assault, inflicting losses on the Americans, according to Resistance fighters. The fighters were unable to give exact figures of the US losses.

This sounds a little like Arab mubalagha, a little like Saddam era journalism.