Falluja Battle Rages On; Group Kidnaps 2 Relatives of Allawi
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The assault on Falluja has wrested more territory, while a militant group said that it held the Iraqi premier's relatives.
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US Army and Marine units thrust into the core of Falluja today, fighting fierce street battles and conducting house-to-house searches on the second day of a major assault to retake the Iraqi city from Islamic militants.
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Gunmen abducted three members of Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi&#39;s family from their Baghdad home, his spokesman said Wednesday, and militants said they would be beheaded in two days if the siege of Fallujah was not lifted.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 10- Gunmen kidnapped a first cousin of interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and two other members of his extended family from their Baghdad home on Tuesday, an Allawi spokesman said Wednesday morning.
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NEAR FALLUJA, Iraq  - Fighting erupted in Falluja  Monday as U.S. marines took up positions for an expected  full-scale offensive on the Iraqi rebel-held city, a Reuters  witness said.
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A major assault by US forces to wrest control of the rebel-held town of Falluja loomed closer yesterday after Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, warned that his &quot;patience was running thin&quot; with talks to find a peaceful solution.
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US warplanes pounded Falluja Sunday and American troops reinforced positions around the city in a battle targeting foreign militants led by America&#39;s top enemy in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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Iraq's interim prime minister has threatened to attack Falluja unless it turns in foreign militants, but a negotiator for the rebel-held city said on Thursday its people were being asked to chase shadows.
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Also, insurgents kidnapped three relatives of the Iraqi prime minister, Ayad Allawi, from their home in Baghdad.
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US and Iraqi forces say they have control of three-quarters of the city of Falluja after a two-battle insurgents.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - U.S. Marines backed by air  strikes battled through a rebel stronghold in Falluja on  Wednesday and officials said kidnappers had seized three  relatives of Iraq's interim prime minister in Baghdad.
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Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi says the rebel-held city of Falluja must surrender the nation&#39;s most wanted man or face attack.
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But as the battle intensified in Falluja, insurgents roamed the streets of Mosul and the nearby town of Ramadi.
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Militants have kidnapped two relatives of Iraqi Defense Minister Hazim al-Shalaan and demanded US forces leave the holy city of Najaf, Al Jazeera television reported Wednesday.
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FALLUJA, Iraq  - No food. No water. No help. As  fierce fighting casts a pall of smoke over the rubble-strewn  Iraqi city of Falluja, thousands of Iraqi families remain cut  off from desperately needed supplies.
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Gunmen abducted Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi&#39;s 75-year-old cousin and the cousin&#39;s daughter-in-law from their home in Baghdad, Allawi&#39;s spokesman said in a statement e-mailed from the capital.
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Two relatives of Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, who were kidnapped last week, have been released and a third relative still remains in captivity, said a spokesman for Allawi on Monday.