Word: fallujah
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...lightening flashes intermittently in an otherwise clear sky, a group of more than 200 Marines begins to gear up on a dusty plain outside the Iraqi city of Fallujah. Officers bark orders, directing grunts into their vehicles. Tank drivers climb into turrets and crank up heavy-metal tunes. Infantrymen who moments earlier had been asking about baseball scores exhort one another to move forward. "This is what you trained for, Marine!" "You're the hunter! You're the predator...
...Parliament and in the newspapers, questions rained down: If the U.S. has 138,000 troops in Iraq, why does it need this small number of Brits, who already have their hands full around Basra? Were the Americans going to suck them into a heavy-handed assault on Fallujah, undermining the British army's reputation? The darkest suspicion was that Blair was trying to boost George W. Bush on the eve of the U.S. election - the actress and Labour M.P. Glenda Jackson said she feared British troops were being "reduced to the level of mercenaries for a Republican White House...
...Arabs will not leave willingly, we will make them leave by force." JAMAL ADNAN, a Fallujah taxi driver, on the foreign insurgents in Iraq who have made his hometown a battleground in their fight against U.S. troops...
...Moustafa's murder is part of a recent wave of killings that threatens to turn this multiethnic, Arab-dominated northern gateway city into the next Fallujah, as areas of the city are slipping out of the control of U.S. forces and the Iraqi government...
...troops stormed Samarra. In September talks with tribal groups there helped the U.S. begin to seat a city council. But the accord broke down, and the city slipped into rebel control. Baghdad bureau chief Michael Ware reports from Samarra, which is a tune-up battle for tougher strongholds like Fallujah...