US general says calm is returning to Fallujah
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WASHINGTON -- The former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah has calmed somewhat, with signs of commerce reappearing on the streets and no shots fired over the past 10 days at US or Iraqi forces, the Marine general overseeing US troops in the city said yesterday.
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American forces in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul say they are restoring calm in the city, despite fresh violence.
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MOSUL, Iraq  - A semblance of calm returned to  Mosul on Friday after U.S. forces carried out air strikes on  insurgents, but residents said Iraq's third largest city  remained tense and Iraqi police were nowhere to be seen.
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FALLUJAH (Iraq) - US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld paid a surprise Christmas visit to Iraq yesterday and told US troops the war could still be won.
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United States troops have secured control over the whole of rebellious Fallujah with more than 1,000 insurgents taken prisoner. Colonel Michael Regner, operations officer for the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force
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US and Iraqi troops say they have recaptured police stations and secured bridges in the northern city of Mosul . The US military also said on Wednesday that Falluja appeared calmer while operations to regain
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The US military says it responded to enemy fire on the edge of Fallujah, Iraq. A Marine spokesman says troops had been taking sporadic fire and countered with tanks and artillery.
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In the relatively calm south, the commander of a British battle group that is preparing to move to riskier areas to support US efforts to fight the insurgency was due to talk about the deployment.
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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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U.S. commanders say they now control Fallujah except for a few pockets of resistance, mostly in the southernmost part. There, the crack of gunfire could still be heard on Monday, as American forces battled the last of the rebel fighters.
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WASHINGTON - The top Marine officer in Iraq says the victory in Fallujah has broken the back of the insurgents. And American troops have apparently also found the headquarters of Iraq&#39;s leading terrorist.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- A US commander said American troops and Iraqi allies have paralyzed insurgents and cut off escape routes from Fallujah.
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CAIRO, 16 November 2004 - The US military announcement that major combat was over in Fallujah echoed the words of US President George W. Bush in May last year when he declared the official end of the war on Iraq.
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BAGHDAD -- US troops sweeping through Fallujah yesterday found what appeared to be a command center used by followers of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and a US general expressed confidence the battle for the city has &quot;broken the back of the insurgency.&quot;
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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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Thousands of Iraqis have returned to the former insurgent stronghold of Falluja and will be allowed to vote inside the city in Iraq's Jan. 30 national election, a senior U.S. Marine general said on Tuesday.
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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.