In Fallujah, Marines bring goodwill, but trouble can follow
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Those seen cooperating with American forces trying to rebuild the city are threatened - and sometimes killed.
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NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq -- The skies over Fallujah are so crowded with US military aircraft that they are layered in stacks above the city, from low-flying helicopters and swooping attack jets to a jet-powered unmanned spy drone that flies above 60,000 feet.
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Marine staff officers are following the battle for Fallujah from a crumbling housing complex where $700,000 in US reconstruction funds weren&#39;t enough to win over insurgents.
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US and Iraqi forces fought to clean out pockets of resistance in Fallujah on Wednesday after sweeping through most of the city quicker than expected and encountering sporadic resistance.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - The offensive that crushed Iraq's  fiercest insurgents in Falluja in November turned U.S. Marines  into heroes and insurgents into celebrated martyrs.
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U.S. Marines battled insurgents in Fallujah on Thursday with warplanes dropping bombs and tanks shelling suspected guerrilla positions, causing deaths on both sides, as the first 200 residents returned to the battered city.
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Two photo-rich summaries of the battle of Fallujah -- one produced by the U.S. military in Iraq, the other by an anonymous American blogger -- highlight how the terrain in such counterinsurgency fights can be as much psychological as physical.
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It's been two years since U.S. forces cleared out this dangerous western city, the bloodiest urban combat of the Iraq war. But Iraqi soldiers still aren't ready to stop Fallujah from becoming an insurgent stronghold again.
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As battles go, Fallujah has been a big disappointment to the US military, which had wanted to draw the Iraqi insurgents into a cataclysmic mistake: a âfairâ fight.
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CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq After the deadliest day for US forces in Iraq in more than a month -- commanders are making it clear that the work in Fallujah (fuh-LOO&#39;-juh) isn&#39;t yet coming to an end.
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CAMP PENDLETON ---- Disturbing video footage of a Camp Pendleton Marine fatally shooting a wounded and unarmed Iraqi fighter on the floor of a Fallujah mosque has ignited a firestorm of criticism and has alarmed local Marine families, who say the Marines
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - In the bloodiest day for the US military in Iraq since May, eight Marines were killed and nine more were wounded yesterday outside Fallujah, where a major US assault on the rebel city seemed imminent.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq - With the battle for Fallujah nearing an end, there are signs of an impending humanitarian crisis among the unknown number of civilians trapped in the city.
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A year after they returned home, members of a badly battered Marine Corps unit are still finding it hard to adjust to their civilian lives.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- Through the tiny rectangular windows of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle the five infantrymen peered out at a junkyard of twisted metal and burned-out trucks. They were chafing to get out.
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BAGHDAD -- For freelance Iraqi journalist Uthman Mohammed al-Qaisi, the battle for Fallujah climaxed before dawn Wednesday. Hunched beneath an air conditioner in an abandoned house, clutching a dead cellphone, he heard the shouts and shots of US Marines and Iraqi insurgents just yards away.
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While attacks on U.S. soldiers remain fairly random and opportunistic, insurgent fighters are targeting places that Iraqis rely on for assistance, frustrating politicians, police and U.S. Army officers.