In Fallujah, Marines Feel Shock of War
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NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq, Nov. 13 -- On his first night in the city, Sgt. Aristotel Barbosa slept uneasily on the floor near the door of a vacant house that his Marine unit had taken over. A squad leader in the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, Barbosa had been prepared for the worst when U.S. and Iraqi forces began storming into Fallujah on Monday night.
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Fierce fighting in Fallujah forces US marines to call in both tanks, fighter jets for back up. By Pierre Celerier - FALLUJAH, Iraq.
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U.S. Marines rallied round a comrade under investigation for killing a wounded Iraqi during the offensive in Falluja, saying he was probably under combat stress in unpredictable, hair-trigger circumstances.
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The top Marine officer in Iraq declared yesterday that victory in the battle of Fallujah has &quot;broken the back&quot; of the Iraqi insurgency, while another commander in the war on terror said
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LANDSTUHL, Germany A US Marine who was wounded in the battle for Fallujah says the fighting is intense -- &quot;house to house&quot; and &quot;rooftop to rooftop.
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A US Marine of the 1st Division gestures during a patrol outside Fallujah, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004. American forces are preparing for a major assault on Fallujah in an effort to restore control to a swathe
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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. Army and Marine units thrust into the heart of the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah on Tuesday, fighting fierce street battles and conducting house-to-house searches on the second day of a major assault to retake the city from Islamic militants.
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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 -- Down a steep staircase littered with glass shards and rubble, US Marines descended yesterday to a dark basement believed to have been one of Fallujah's torture chambers. They found bloodstains and a single bloody handprint on the wall -- evidence of the horrors once carried out in this former insurgent stronghold.
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Iraqis look on as a passing US military humvee stirs up the dust, as they wait on the city limits to be allowed to enter Fallujah Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004, as the first of the town&#39;s 300,000 residents who fled
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BAGHDAD, Iraq It&#39;s been the bloodiest day in almost six months for US forces in Iraq. The military says eight Marines have been killed and nine wounded by a car bomb outside Fallujah, where American forces have been pounding guerrilla positions.
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The men from Fallujah gathered on the red carpet inside their mosque to vent their anger. Instead of feeling liberated, they
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NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq -- The medical team that treats US casualties in the Fallujah area has doubled its staff and supplies to prepare for an expected assault on the insurgent stronghold, a battle that could be the bloodiest since the United States invaded Iraq 19 months ago.
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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
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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.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq - US 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 US warplaneâs machine guns sounded overhead while troops fought with