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Assault on besieged Falluja under way
(Aljazeera, 08 November 2004)
US forces have struck a railway station inside Falluja with small arms and tank machinegun fire as fighting raged in the besieged Iraqi city. . . . US warplanes staged ferocious strikes on targets in Falluja after interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi gave US-led forces the go-ahead for a full-scale attack on city on Monday afternoon. . . . Aircraft struck about eight times in 20 minutes, sending huge plumes of smoke billowing up from the north-west of the city, where US-led forces are about to launch an offensive. . . . Medical sources told Aljazeera that 12 people had been killed and double that number injured during clashes between fighters and US forces. . . . Abu Bakr al-Dulaimi, an Iraqi journalist, told Aljazeera the clashes were the most violent the city has witnessed since April 2003. . . . "US tanks, armoured vehicles, F16 and C130 fighters are taking part in the attack on Falluja," al-Dulaimi said. . . . "Violent clashes are now going on in the western areas of the city. US forces are backed by tanks and helicopters", he added. . . . "Clashes have also erupted in Julan neighbourhood. Resistance in these areas is fierce," he said. "The city's defenders are responding to the US attacks with everything at their disposal." . . . US forces hit . . . According to the journalist, the clashes also spread to the western parts of the city including al-Jisrain area. US F16 fighters also bombed sites in northeast Falluja. . . . Fighters caused some damage to the advancing US forces hitting two tanks in the north western area of Saqlawiya and seven oil tankers in Qarma in the northeast. . . . "An unmanned aircraft was downed in central Falluja and a US military vehicle was burnt behind the new bridge," said al-Dulaimi. . . . Falluja's Shura (consultation) Mujahidin Council called for international intervention to halt the assault. It also called on the resistance fighters in other Iraqi cities to come to Falluja's aid. . . . Earlier on Monday, US marines seized control of land around the hospital on the western edge of the city, witnesses said. . . . Allawi [COMMENT: Who has been a CIA contract agent for many years.] said he had given US and Iraqi forces the green light to clear the rebel-held city of Falluja of "terrorists". . . . Sealed off . . . The US army closed all roads leading to the besieged city after Iraq's interim government declared a state of emergency throughout the country excluding Kurdish areas, sources told Aljazeera. . . . Nearly 20,000 US and Iraqi soldiers and marines are camped around the city awaiting orders to move in. . . . The US military says 1000 to 6000 fighters - Saddam Hussein supporters and foreign fighters led by al-Qaida ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - are holed up in Falluja's alleyways and on rooftops. . . . Peace talks between the interim government and Falluja have fallen through several times, most recently last month when Allawi threatened another attack if residents did not surrender al-Zarqawi and other suspected al-Qaida linked fighters. . . . But residents of Falluja say neither al-Zarqawi nor members of al-Qaida are in the city.

posted by Lorenzo 1:20 PM