Monday, July 11, 2005

Not flat enough

Americans begin new offensive in Fallujah

The US military has launched an operation against insurgents around Fallujah only six months after its officials proclaimed the city "the safest place in Iraq".

The initiative, launched on Thursday but publicised only at the weekend, involved hundreds of marines supported by 100 Iraqi soldiers sweeping through the fertile farmland and villages south of the city.

There is growing concern that the city's pacification has not proved as final as hoped for in November.

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Two weeks ago four female marines were among six American personnel who died when their convoy was struck by a suicide car bomb just outside the city.

  Free Iraq

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