Casey said some insurgents slipped away but others "have moved in." U.S. Seventeen others, including a 5-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy, were wounded, he said.Ībout 3,000 insurgents were barricaded in Fallujah, U.S. forces."Ī doctor at a clinic in Fallujah, Mohammed Amer, reported 12 people were killed. He predicted "there aren't going be large numbers of civilians killed and certainly not by U.S. and the remnants of Saddam Hussein's regime," U.S. "One part of the country cannot remain under the rule of assassins. The offensive is considered the most important military effort to re-establish government control over Sunni strongholds west of Baghdad before elections in January. units appeared to be lined up at the edge of their neighborhoods with some scouts and perhaps special operators venturing inside.
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Overall, the main force did not appear to have moved deeply into Fallujah on Monday, the first full day of the operation. troops along with a smaller number of Iraqi forces were encircling the city. George Casey, predicted a "major confrontation" in the operation he said was called "al-Fajr," Arabic for "dawn." He told reporters in Washington that 10,000 to 15,000 U.S. forces took over a train station after the Americans fired on it to drive off fighters.
Just outside the Jolan and Askari neighborhoods, Iraqi troops deployed with U.S. Mosque loudspeakers blared, "God is great, God is great." One group of four fighters, two of them draped with belts of ammunition, moved through narrow passageways, firing on U.S. Masked insurgents roamed Fallujah streets throughout the day. convoys in and around Baghdad killed two American soldiers and wounded five others Sunday, the military said. Some were lined up and shot execution-style, according to police and hospital officials.
Sunday, armed rebels stormed three police stations in the towns of Haditha and Haqlaniyah, killing 22 policemen.A huge explosion at the church in the southern Doura neighborhood left about 20 people injured, said a policeman who declined to give his name.
Militants attacked a Catholic church Monday in southern Baghdad, setting it ablaze, according to police and eyewitnesses.The battle for Fallujah is shaping up to be the hardest fight American forces have had - not since the invasion of Iraq - but since the Vietnam war, reports CBS News Correspondent Elizabeth Palmer, who is embedded in Fallujah with the U.S.
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