US commanders welcome Fallujah revival
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Women shrouded in black shop for gold jewelry and fabric. Young boys tote trays of tea. The smell of tangerines wafts through the air. This is Fallujah 2008 Â a former insurgent stronghold that U.S. commanders now hold up as an example for the rest of Iraq.
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[World News]: Baghdad, Dec 24 : US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Friday visited US troops at a main base outside the restive Iraqi city of Fallujah, a hotbed of insurgency.
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US Marines of the 1st Division train in a former Iraqi army barrack outside Fallujah, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2004. American forces are preparing for a major assault on Fallujah in an effort to restore control
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US forces backed by Iraqi troops surged into the heart of Fallujah on Tuesday, taking a grip on Iraq&#39;s most rebellious city after a day of intense street-to-street combat.
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In Fallujah, US officers say the remaining Iraqi rebels are smart, and adapting to changing battle conditions.
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More than 900 residents of Fallujah returned to homes they fled before last month&#39;s military operation in the Iraqi city, on the first day of a program overseen by US and Iraqi forces, the US military said.
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The Pentagon's top general said Thursday that the assault on Iraq's rebel-controlled Fallujah has been "very, very successful," despite suspicions that many insurgents had simply fled before it began.
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BAGHDAD -- Top American military officials said in interviews that they won't shy from an all-out confrontation with militants in Fallujah, and they expect victory over a nationwide insurgency that they described as fragmented, weakened, and losing popular support.
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The US Marine general who designed the ground attack on Fallujah says this time, they did it right. Major General Richard Natonski says the assault on the Iraqi city succeeded in part because of lessons learned in April.
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The top commander of US Marines in Iraq says US and Iraqi troops have &quot;broken the back&quot; of the insurgency there by taking control of Fallujah.
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U.S. Marine officers said Wednesday that U.S. and Iraqi troops sweeping Fallujah have uncovered enough weapons to fuel a nationwide rebellion and that clearing the former insurgent bastion of arms is holding up the return of civilians.
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In a pep talk to US troops ahead their invasion of Fallujah on Sunday, the senior enlisted Marine in Iraq, Sgt. Major Carlton Kent drew inspiration from great Marine triumphs of the past.
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Fallujah has been the heart of the Iraqi insurgency but won&#39;t be its last stand, defense officials and experts say. US-led forces have moved through the one-time insurgent stronghold
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The rapid US push into Fallujah has come without the sort of fateful showdown that would break the back of the insurgency. In fact, advance US and Iraqi
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BAGHDAD -- Hundreds of residents began returning to the war-ravaged city of Fallujah yesterday, but renewed fighting in the area killed three Marines, showing that insurgents remain active despite the US offensive to crush them last month.
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US and Iraqi forces seized control of more than 70 percent of Fallujah on Wednesday, according to troops who described encountering small pockets of resistance as
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US Lieutenant General John Sattler said Thursday that US troops have succeeded in the flashpoint city of Fallujah. But more anti-US violence broke out throughout Iraq, causing heavy casualties and damage.