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US forces seal off Falluja
(The Guardian, November 5, 2004)
After a night of air strikes, US forces sealed off the Iraqi rebel stronghold of Falluja today and a US commander said the long-expected offensive on the city would soon be underway. . . . Speaking near the city, which is around 50km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, US marine colonel Michael Shupp told Reuters: "We are making last preparations. It will be soon. We are just awaiting orders from prime minister [Ayad] Allawi." [COMMENT: Yeah, right, Allawi is calling the shots, and we're still going to find those WMDs.] . . . US soldiers blocked roads leading to Falluja overnight, including the highway leading to the border with Jordan and Syria, witnesses said. Syrian officials also said the Iraqis closed a crossing point on the border. . . . The air strikes targeted a system of barriers rigged with bombs in the south-eastern part of Falluja, the US marines said. They also said they targeted a command post and a weapons cache. . . . It also emerged today that insurgents had killed two US marines and wounded four others in fighting west of Baghdad yesterday, and that a third US soldier was killed by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad. . . . The reports of new US casualties follow yesterday's killing of three British Black Watch soldiers. The men were killed by a suicide car bomber at a checkpoint near their new base, Camp Dogwood, which is around 15km south of Baghdad. . . . The Black Watch regiment was redeployed from southern Iraq to an area south-east of Falluja after a US request to for British troops to relieve US marines expected to take part in the assault on the city. Part of the Black Watch's role is to stop militants escaping from the city and mounting patrols in the area around it.

posted by Lorenzo 4:04 PM