Fallujah Operation Oversees Return of 900 Residents
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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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In Fallujah, US forces are going through 50,000 houses one by one. But insurgents are coming back.
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Residents of Fallujah have to wait at least another week to return home, a US military official saidon Monday, citing security concerns.
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BAGHDAD -- For the first time since a US-led offensive devastated Fallujah, a Red Cross team entered the city and met with Iraqi technicians and engineers to discuss sewage and water treatment needs, a group spokesman said yesterday.
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U.S. military officials said Saturday that American troops had now "occupied" the entire city of Fallujah and there were no more major concentrations of insurgents still fighting after nearly a week of intense urban combat.
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Life returns slowly to normal in the battered Iraqi city after a huge US-led operation to wrest control from insurgents.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq, Dec. 9 -- When the residents of Fallujah begin trickling back to their devastated city, they will be routed through sandbagged checkpoints where U.S. and Iraqi troops will take their fingerprints, issue ID cards and in some cases scan their irises, part of an elaborate plan to keep insurgents out of the former radical militant stronghold.
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Authorities hope that more residents of Falluja will return to their homes after few took up the offer on Thursday.
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Although the Iraqi city of Fallujah is secure now that Marines there control the city, it is not yet safe for residents to return, the commander
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- Thousands of US and Iraqi forces swept into this insurgent stronghold yesterday, driving into the city's narrow streets and blasting suspected guerrilla positions in a massive thrust that American military leaders said would not cease until the city is under the full control of the interim Iraqi government.
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Some 15,000 US troops and Iraqi National Guardsmen advanced Tuesday into the Iraqi city of Fallujah from three directions to root out 3,000 insurgents.
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More than 2,000 people were killed so far in the flashpoint city of Fallujah, an Iraqi senior security official said Thursday. &quot;More than 2,058 were killed and more than 1,600
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What once was the thriving Iraqi city of Fallujah now is a virtual ghost town of bombed-out buildings and piles of rubble. Nearly five weeks after the fight for the city began, a fight in which more than 50
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_ When the residents of Fallujah come home again, they may find loved ones dead or their home damaged beyond repair. The US military is ready to pay them restitution.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- The US military is drawing up plans to keep insurgents from regaining control of this battle-scarred city, but returning residents may find that the measures make Fallujah look more like a police state than the democracy they have been promised.
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Nearly all of  Fallujah's 250,000 residents emptied the city  in advance of the military operation. The city partially reopened to residents on Dec. 23, and U.S. military officials now estimate that 60,000 people have come back, but not everyone who has returned has opted to stay.
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ONLY a few miles separate the rebel city of Fallujah from the sprawling complex of US Marine bases. While the Iraqi city is steadily emptying of people, the American camps are rapidly filling up with extra