Iraq Rebels Strike Before U.S. Attack on Falluja
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Rebels shot dead 21 Iraqi  policemen in cold blood on Sunday, a day after killing 34  people in attacks on security forces, in a clear show of force  ahead of an imminent U.S. offensive on insurgents in Falluja  and Ramadi.
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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. planes and artillery  fiercely bombarded Falluja and troops probed rebel defenses on  Monday in a prelude to a full-scale ground offensive on Iraq's  toughest insurgent bastion.
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US forces launched air strikes on the rebel-held city of Falluja on Monday, targeting what they said was a meeting of key loyalists of their top foe in Iraq, Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes attacked the  rebel-held city of Falluja overnight, killing two people, a  witness said.
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US forces poised to assault Falluja bombarded the rebel stronghold on Saturday, while insurgents launched deadly attacks that killed 34 people in Samarra, another city in Iraq&#39;s Sunni Muslim heartland.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. aircraft carried out a third  set of air strikes on the rebel Iraqi stronghold of Falluja,  targeting a meeting of suspected militants loyal to Jordanian  mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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US artillery shelled Falluja on Thursday after overnight air and tank attacks killed five people in Iraq&#39;s most rebellious city, braced for an all-out offensive now the US presidential election is over.
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U.S. forces launched a "precision  strike" Saturday on a building in the rebel-held Iraqi city of  Falluja where 15 to 20 guerrillas were training for attacks,  the American military said.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes bombed rebel  targets near the restive Iraqi city of Falluja on Thursday,  killing about 60 foreign fighters, the U.S. military said on  Friday.
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American warplanes have bombed the Iraqi city of Falluja, a day after the country&#39;s interim prime minister spoke of an imminent military showdown with anti-US forces.
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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes pounded  Falluja Monday as ground troops battled guerrillas on the  outskirts of the rebel-held city that American and Iraqi forces  were poised to storm.
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US FORCES poised to storm Falluja carried out the heaviest bombing of the rebel-held city in months yesterday while insurgents killed more than 30 people in diversionary attacks on other Iraqi towns.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. planes struck suspected  guerrilla targets in Iraq's western city of Falluja on Friday  as U.S. troops warned residents on loudspeakers to hand in  militants by nightfall, witnesses said.
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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. marines prepared on  Friday for a big assault on Sunni Muslim rebels and Arab  fighters in the Iraqi cities of Falluja and Ramadi.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. forces hit Iraq's rebel  stronghold of Falluja with the fiercest air and ground  bombardment in months, as insurgents struck back on Saturday  with attacks that killed 34 people in Samarra.
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US forces battled rebels in Iraq&#39;s western city of Falluja on Sunday as American tanks, armored personnel carriers and Humvee vehicles gathered on a highway on its outskirts, witnesses said.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - A U.S. air strike on the  rebel-held city of Falluja in western Iraq killed 11 people and  wounded 17 at a wedding party, with women and children among  the casualties, a hospital doctor said Friday.