Rumsfeld Expects Few Civilian Deaths in Falluja
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  said on Monday he did not foresee large numbers of civilian  casualties during the U.S.-led assault to take the rebel-held  city of Falluja.
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BAGHDAD  - At least 26 people, including 12 policemen, were killed in double attacks in Baghdad as US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admitted that he had underestimated the Iraq insurgency.
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Losses of life and other painful sacrifices made in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will prove to be worthwhile for peace, stability and freedom in regions where tyranny once reigned, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday in Phoenix.
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Under fire from troops who complain they are being sent to war in Iraq with inadequate gear, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld promised on Thursday that more would be done to protect forces.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes bombed targets in  Iraq's rebel-held city of Falluja overnight, killing two people  and wounding three, and the U.S. military said it had captured  a wanted militant on Saturday.
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Washington -- The US military death toll in Iraq topped 1,000 Tuesday, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and independent analysts predicted the casualty situation is likely to worsen in the next several months as US and Iraqi elections approach.
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At least nine Iraqis and four US soldiers are reported to have been killed in renewed violence in Iraq. Hospital sources said clashes between insurgents and US troops saw five Iraqis killed near Falluja and three in neighbouring Ramadi.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - The Iraqi government and U.S.  commanders declared their offensive on rebel-held Falluja a  success on Thursday but U.S. troops still faced dangers in the  city and guerrillas attacked elsewhere in Iraq.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has given the go-ahead for a US-led attack on the rebel stronghold of Falluja. Allawi announced a curfew in Falluja and Ramadi from 1800 local time
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - A U.S. air strike on the Iraqi  city of Falluja killed at least 14 people including a woman and  three children, Iraqi doctors said early Thursday.
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"Hundreds" of insurgents have been killed in Falluja as U.S. and Iraqi troops sweep through the besieged Iraq city, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Thursday.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - Rebels shot dead 21 Iraqi  policemen in cold blood on Sunday, a day after killing 34  people in attacks on security forces, in a clear show of force  ahead of an imminent U.S. offensive on insurgents in Falluja  and Ramadi.
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US military chiefs said yesterday that they saw no need for the Iraqi Red Crescent to deliver aid inside Falluja because they did not think any Iraqi civilians were trapped there.
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Iraq &quot;looks bleak&quot; and is a &quot;tough situation,&quot; but there is no question that the United States will prevail over insurgents, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Monday he does not expect civil war in Iraq and pointed to the recent retaking of the former insurgent stronghold of Samarra as evidence of progress in stabilizing the country before elections in January.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes launched air  strikes in Falluja for the fourth straight day on Friday,  attacking an area in the southeast of the rebel-held city and  killing at least one Iraqi, witnesses and doctors said.
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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 operation