The Grim Calculations of Retaking Fallujah
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Capturing the city could mean a Sunni election boycott, but leaving it in rebel hands would also jeopardize the poll
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FALLUJAH: The US toll in the fight for Fallujah rose to 22 after it ran into pockets of fierce resistance yesterday as aid agencies pressed for access to the Iraqi city to take food and water to civilians trapped inside.
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Fallujah. For months it has been a name associated with violence and the restive town has been the hub of anti-Iraq activity. Ask any Iraqi where people are taken and killed
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US-led forces say they will probably need up to five more days to finish clearing Fallujah of rebels after a week of fierce fighting that left more than 1,200 insurgents dead.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- US military officers contending with scattered gun battles across this smoldering city predict it will be weeks -- and longer in some neighborhoods -- before residents can return and work can begin on rebuilding hundreds of houses damaged in the fighting and on overhauling water, electricity, and sewage systems weakened by years of neglect.
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A US Marine commander in Fallujah is warning it may be some time before it is safe for residents to return to the Iraqi city, after nearly two weeks of fighting there to flush out insurgents.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Residents of the devastated city of Fallujah will begin returning to their homes later this week in several stages, and each family will be compensated for damages caused by recent fighting between US troops and insurgents, Iraqi&#39;s
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There could be several more days of intense fighting in the U.S.-led battle to retake Iraq's rebel-controlled city of Fallujah, the commander of land forces said on the second day of the assault.
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American casualties in Iraq are mounting as the US-led offensive in Fallujah unfolds. As of Tuesday evening there, 10 American troops had been killed in action and an undisclosed
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The siege of Fallujah began with an expectation of weeks, if not months, of heavy fighting and worries about how that would influence
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U.S. Marine engineers began assessing damage in Fallujah on Monday, driving through tableaux of devastation as huge explosions shook the city and the belching whir of a U.S. warplane's machine guns sounded overhead while troops fought with holdout insurgents.
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HUNDREDS of fighters who escaped the US onslaught of Fallujah are regrouping, re-arming and attacking elsewhere in the country to show Iraq&#39;s insurgency will continue despite estimated
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FALLUJAH, Iraq - US forces pushed deeper into the southern reaches of Fallujah, cornering militants backed into smaller pockets of the city.
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In April, 2,000 Marines fought for three weeks and failed to take Fallujah from its insurgent defenders. This time, war planners sent six times the
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BAGHDAD, Iraq Expert assessments have concluded the recapture of Fallujah has not broken the insurgents&#39; will to fight and may not pay the big security dividend US planners had hoped for.
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American forces are gearing up for a major operation in the insurgent bastion of Fallujah, where up to 5,000 Islamic militants, Saddam Hussein loyalists and common criminals are hunkered down, U.S. officers said Friday.
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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.