U.S. Says Fallujah Assault Successful
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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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U.S. warplanes pounded Fallujah late Friday in what residents called the strongest attacks in months, as more than 10,000 American soldiers and Marines massed for an expected assault. Iraq's prime minister warned the "window is closing" to avert an offensive.
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WASHINGTON US military commanders say the weeklong assault that has wrested most of Falluja back from insurgent control achieved nearly all their objectives well ahead of schedule and with fewer pitfalls than anticipated.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld declared Monday that the military assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah would be carried through to completion, unlike the U.S. Marine operation in April that was aborted after several days.
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US and Iraqi forces in Fallujah wrested most of the city from insurgents, and, in one raid, unearthed an underground bunker and steel-reinforced tunnels, the US military said in an e-mailed statement.
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Washington: US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said that US and Iraqi military forces fighting together in Fallujah are &quot;well along&quot; in their task of freeing the Iraqi city from insurgent forces &quot;and they will finish it successfully.
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Roughly 10,000 to 15,000 U.S. and  Iraqi troops were involved in the assault on Monday on the  rebel-held Iraqi city of Falluja, where about 3,000 insurgents  are holed up, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said.
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US commanders in Iraq say they have almost complete control of the city of Fallujah, after several days of fighting in which 38 US troops, six Iraqi soldiers and an estimated 1,200 insurgents have been killed.
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Soldiers declared &quot;mission accomplished&quot; as the battle group convoy of more than 200 vehicles arrived at the relative safety of Shaibah Logistics Base.
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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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MOSUL - US and Iraqi troops recaptured police stations and secured bridges in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday in an offensive aimed at pushing out fighters supporting the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
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US troops declared the operation to free Fallujah of militants ``accomplished&#39;&#39; but acknowledged the two most wanted figures in the city - Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al
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US and Iraqi forces said they had captured almost three quarters of Fallujah on Wednesday, and Iraqi troops had found &quot;hostage slaughterhouses&quot; where foreign captives had been held and killed.
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The operation to hand over security in Basra to Iraqi forces has been completed successfully, Tony Blair says.
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US Marines continued their artillery bombardment of targets in the Iraqi city of Fallujah on Wednesday and admitted Iraqi resistance fighters in the city center showed no signs of giving up.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq  - Iraq says the battle to retake the rebel bastion of Fallujah was over, with more than 1,000 insurgents killed, but US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the reports are premature, and US commanders say the six-day assault
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U.S. Forces Kill Several Iraqi Insurgents In Al-Fallujah 31 August 2004 -- The U.S. military says its forces killed several Iraqi militants late yesterday in the Iraqi city of Al-Fallujah. A military spokesman, ...