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Falluja Table - April 07

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IBC Extracted Falluja News - April 07

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Aljazeera
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10:51 Makka Time, 7:51 GMT
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SCORES DEAD AS FALLUJA RESISTS US ONSLAUGHT
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Hospital sources said at least 45 Iraqis were killed and 90 injured in attacks on the besieged town on Wednesday.

Among the casualties were a family sitting in a car parked behind the Abd al-Aziz al-Samarai mosque when it was bombed by a US airplane.

Another 53 Iraqis died in attacks overnight on Tuesday in the town which was sealed off on Sunday by US forces. Twenty-five of those killed were from a single family.

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Several children were among the casualties in Falluja

Date killed? Night of 6th-7th: 53;
7th: 45 
Total 45 (incl family in car outside mosque) + 53 (overnight attacks)
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25 from one family (night of 6th-7th);

unspecified number from another family in car outside mosque, (7th);

'several children' among casualties

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"More than 200 Iraqis, including women and children, have been injured in the past 24 hours," said Aljazeera correspondent in Falluja, Ahmad Mansur.

American forces initially said those killed in Wednesday's attack on the mosque were fighters taking refuge.

But a marine officer was later forced to admit that US forces had failed to find any bodies.

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Earlier, speaking live from a rooftop, Mansur said the town's hospital was struggling to cope with the rising casualties.

"They are attacking residential neighbourhoods," he said as US warplanes swooped over the area and fired rockets. Intense gunfire could be heard from the streets.

US/military viewpoint "When we hit that building I thought we had killed all the bad guys, but when we went in they didn't find any bad guys in the building," Lieutenant Colonel Brennan Byrne told reporters.
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Bahrain News Agency
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FALLUJAH STATISTICS INDICATE 40 DEAD
Specific incidents / deaths Fallujah hospitals on Wednesday announced that forty people, including women in children, were died today due to violence in the tension gripped Iraqi city.
Date killed? 7th
Total 40
Civilian / Fighter 'including women in children'
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Total [102 injured]
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Selected info, comment, analysis Moreover, the Iraqi ministry of health issued a statement and called on relief organizations to extend urgent medical aid and blood to the injured, who at last count totalled 102 persons, who were hurt in clashes that spread yesterday and lasted throughout early this morning.
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service
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Al-Jazirah Satellite Channel Television in Arabic 0505 GMT
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AL-JAZIRAH CORRESPONDENT REPORTS 'HORRIFIC' SITUATION IN AL-FALLUJAH
Specific incidents / deaths The official figures we obtained from the field hospital set up by doctors [word indistinct] located on the side of the US forces and the hospital of Dr. Talib al-Janabi indicate that so far 35 people have been killed and 60 people have been wounded. I met with a member of a family, whose only survivor was a one-and-a-half-year-old child. This man is in his mid forties. Some 24 members of the family, including women and children, and two brothers of this man, were martyred.
Date killed? 6th
Total 35
(60 wounded)
Civilian / Fighter 'some 24' from one family, 'including women and children'
Cumulative deaths [and injuries] The official figures we obtained from the field hospital set up by doctors [word indistinct] located on the side of the US forces and the hospital of Dr. Talib al-Janabi indicate that so far 35 people have been killed and 60 people have been wounded.
Date range? 4th-6th?
Total 35?
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service
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Baghdad: Dar al-Salam Radio in Arabic 1000 GMT
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IRAQI DOCTOR PROVIDES FIGURES ON DEAD, WOUNDED IN AL-FALLUJAH
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Cumulative deaths [and injuries] Doctor Ahmad, one of the supervising doctors at the field hospital in Al-Fallujah, has called our radio and said that the situation in Al-Fallujah is as follows: The number of martyrs is so far 54, many of whom are women and children. The US bombing also led to the martyrdom of entire families.
Date range? 4th-6th
Total 54

[103 wounded]
Civilian / Fighter 'many of whom are women and children'
Selected info, comment, analysis The number of wounded people is 103, many of whom need hospitalization. However, the occupation forces have blocked the road to the hospital and blocked the bridge. This prevented the delivery of blood and oxygen and the transportation of the wounded. In addition, the city is still without electricity and under siege.

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The Iraqi Islamic Party has opened three field hospitals, with a limited capacity.
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PBS Radio
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Gwen Ifill discusses the latest flashpoints with Los Angeles Times reporter Tony Perry, who is embedded with U.S. Marines in Fallujah.
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DEADLY DAY
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They were mortaring, the insurgents who were mortaring a number of marine positions today. They didn't inflict casualties on the marines, but they landed mortars on the top of an Iraqi house, killing a seven-year-old girl and injuring severely a three-year-old girl.

Date killed? 7th
Total 1 (seven-yr-old girl)
Civilian / Fighter 1/0
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GWEN IFILL: Can I ask you to elaborate on that? We did hear today about an attack on a mosque that killed anywhere from forty to sixty people. Were you with that unit and can you describe what happened?

TONY PERRY: Yeah, I'm with the unit right now. The first reports are a little misleading. What happened here... there are several mosques that have been used by the insurgents as places to either gather or strategize or even to fire at marines.

One particular mosque had thirty to forty insurgents in it. They had snipers. They wounded five marines. There were ambulances that drove up and the marines let them come in to take the insurgent wounded away. But instead, people with RPG's, rocket-propelled grenades, jumped out of the ambulances and started fighting with the marines. Ultimately, what the marines did is call in air power. A helicopter dropped a hellfire missile and then an F-16 dropped a laser-guided bomb on the outside of the mosque, put a huge crater outside the mosque. There's sort of a plaza outside the mosque. And suddenly, the firing inside stopped. But when the marines examined the mosque and went in and went door-to-door in the mosque and floor-to-floor, they found no bodies, nor did they find the kind of blood and guts one would presume if people had died.

Now, one of two things must have happened: Either the people died inside and were carted off somehow-- and there is a tradition of the insurgents carting off their dead very quickly; or two, frankly, they escaped before the bomb was dropped. We cannot confirm that anybody actually died in that mosque. The marines were quite willing to kill everybody in the mosque because they were insurgents. They had been firing at people, at marines. And as the lieutenant colonel who ordered the strikes said, this was no longer a house of worship; this was a military target.

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Middle East Online
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Ned Parker
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AN UNEXPECTED REVOLT
Specific incidents / deaths Up to 40 killed in US bombing of Fallujah mosque

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US marines pressing an offensive in this Iraqi town west of Baghdad bombed a mosque in the center of the town Wednesday and killed up to 40 insurgents inside, a marine officer said.

The attack came from a jet aircraft at a high angle to minimize the impact, the officer said.

"We wanted to kill the people inside," said Lieutenant Colonel Brennan Byrne.

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Hospital sources here, meanwhile, said a total of 46 Iraqis had been killed and dozens wounded in Fallujah in clashes between US forces and anti-coalition insurgents since late Tuesday.

The sources said the Iraqi casualties were "mostly women and children" and that their makeshift hospital could not receive any more casualties.

Date killed? late 6th - 7th
Total

46

(40 in mosque: US military figure, later retracted - see PBS above)

Civilian / Fighter "mostly women and children"
Cumulative deaths [and injuries] US marines battled Sunni insurgents west of Baghdad after suffering 12 dead in a nearby town and killing 24 Iraqis here while city mosques called for a holy war against occupation forces.
Date range? up to 6th?
Total 24?
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Marines were using aggressive tactics to draw out the insurgents and then chase them.

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Middle East Online
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Last Updated 2004-04-07 12:40:04
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SHIITES AND SUNNIS ARE RESISTING US-LED COALITION FORCES
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Thirty Iraqis were killed and 25 wounded during overnight clashes between Sunni Muslim insurgents and US marines in this restive town west of Baghdad, hospital sources and residents said Wednesday.

The casualties fell in the Julan and Dhubbat neighborhoods when US tanks opened fire, according to a source at the local dispensary. Residents said warplanes also intervened.

Date killed? 6th-7th
Total 30 (from US tank-fire)
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service
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Baghdad: Dar al-Salam Radio in Arabic 1600 GMT
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IRAQI ISLAMIC PARTY STATEMENT WARNS AGAINST 'BLOODSHED, COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT'
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Cumulative deaths [and injuries] What deepens the dilemma our brothers are currently facing is that the occupation forces prevent the wounded from reaching hospitals. More than 100 persons are martyred, mostly women and children, and more than 200 wounded others are calling on the conscientious and free world to defend their rights and listen to their call.
Date range? 4th-7th?
Total 100+

[200+ wounded]
Civilian / Fighter 'mostly women and children'
Selected info, comment, analysis The occupation forces are shelling the city with missiles and various kinds of weapons without differentiating between elderly people, children, and women, thus inflicting more pain on our people there due to the severe shortage in water, electricity, food, and medicine.

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We are working hard to alleviate the suffering of our brothers and people there. Therefore, we established three field hospitals to treat the wounded and help alleviate their pain and suffering. We are also trying to send medical supplies and blood to the city.

We demand the occupation forces to heed the voice of reason, deal objectively with events, not to escalate violence that will lead to more bloodshed, and not to resort to the policy of collective punishment that violates all human standards and international charters

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Associated Press
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8:18 AM EDT
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LOURDES NAVARRO and BASSEM MROUE
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U.S. FACES TOUGH URBAN BATTLE IN FALLUJAH
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Tuesday evening, U.S. planes firing rockets destroyed four houses in two neighborhoods, witnesses said. The strike killed 26 Iraqis, including women and children, and wounded 30 others, said Rafie al-Issawi, a doctor at Fallujah General Hospital, where the casualties were taken. The deaths brought the total number of Iraqi dead on Tuesday to 34, according to the hospital's count.

Date killed? 6th
Total 26 (evening) + 8=34
Civilian / Fighter 26 included 'women and children'
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U.S. forces called out a weapon rarely used against the Iraqi guerrillas: the AC-130 gunship, a warplane that circles over a target, laying down a devastating barrage of heavy machine gun fire.

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Washington Post
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Pamela Constable
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TROOPS GAINING GRIP IN SECTIONS OF FALLUJAH

Specific incidents / deaths At least 10 enemy fighters were reported killed and 15 captured, including several foreigners said to be from Sudan.
Date killed? 5th
Total 10
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One company commander said that as his squads moved through residential areas, they were fired on from inside a mosque, and snipers took potshots at them from numerous hiding places. Many enemy fighters wore black clothing and had scarves wrapped around their faces.

"As soon as we crossed the line, there was a huge change in tone in the people, a real uneasy feeling," the commander said at an early evening briefing. "Little kids made roadblocks."

U.S. ground forces responded with barrages of machine-gun fire, and AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters and AC-130 gunships fired at small bands of guerrillas who immediately dragged away fallen comrades, making casualty counts impossible, U.S. officers said. Sporadic bursts of gunfire and the soft booms of mortar rounds continued all day and into the evening Tuesday.

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But Dickens and other officers said they were under strict orders to avoid inflicting civilian casualties and not to return fire until sources of attack had been pinpointed. "We are not using artillery or big guns," Dickens said. "We don't want collateral damage. . . . The way to win the war on terror is with your boots on deck."

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Despite the fierce armed resistance to the Marine operation and the hostile attitude of some civilians, military officials maintained that most of Fallujah's leaders and residents are not opposed to the U.S. presence and are desperate for the services and investment that have been promised.

US/military viewpoint "Some of the fighters are young guys, the equivalent of dope peddlers, who do this for money. Others are holy warriors willing to die for a cause," said Capt. Will Dickens, another company commander whose troops were fired on repeatedly. "The die-hard [suicide fighters] just stand up in the open, fire from the hip and stay there until they kill or are killed."

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"This is not retribution. This is not vendetta. This is about making the city livable so people don't have to live in fear of the thugs who have taken over the city," Byrne said. "This city has long been a haven for smugglers and bandits, a dumping ground for foreign fighters and bad guys. No one ever took the time to clean it out properly."

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"We have a ton of money to spend in Fallujah, but we can't spend it until we have some security," said Capt. Edward Sullivan, a foreign area officer at the Marine base near Fallujah. "The local officials are trying, but the thugs run the city. This isn't a backlash, but at some point you say enough is enough."
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Associated Press
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ROCKETS KILL DOZENS IN IRAQI MOSQUE, WITNESSES SAY
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U.S. forces battling Sunni insurgents in this violent city apparently hit a mosque filled with people Wednesday, and witnesses said as many as 40 people were killed.

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U.S. troops battled with insurgents in two central Iraqi towns Wednesday, with at least 60 Iraqis killed and more than 120 wounded in overnight fighting in Fallujah, hospital officials said.

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Among the 60 dead in the city, 26 people - including 16 children and up to eight women - were killed when warplanes struck four houses late Tuesday, said Hatem Samir, head of the clinic at Fallujah Hospital. Others were killed in ongoing street battles.

Date killed? night of 6th-7th, 7th
Total 60+40=100
Civilian / Fighter of 26 in four houses 16 were children, 8 women
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It was unclear what hit the mosque. Until that incident, reports showed at least 30 Americans and more than 150 Iraqis were dead in the fighting for the city.

Date range? 4th-night of 6th, possibly 7th prior to bombing of mosque
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150+,
(+40)

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U.S. Marines and gunmen were engaged in heavy battles in the Dubat neighborhood on the eastern side of Fallujah and elsewhere in the city, witnesses said.

U.S. warplanes opened fire on groups of Iraqis in the street. Rocket-propelled grenade fire set a U.S. Humvee ablaze, injuring soldiers inside, witnesses said.

Mosques in the city called for "jihad," or holy war, against Americans. Some gunmen in the street were seen carrying mortars, and some women carried automatic weapons

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Associated Press
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3:01 PM (UK)
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40 REPORTED KILLED IN FALLUJAH MOSQUE
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A U.S. helicopter fired three missiles at a mosque compound in the city of Fallujah on Wednesday, killing about 40 people as American forces battled Sunni insurgents, witnesses said.

Cars ferried bodies from the scene, though there was no immediate confirmation of causalities.

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The strike came as worshippers gathered for afternoon prayers, witnesses said. They said the dead were taken to private homes in the area where temporary hospitals have been set up.

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Los Angeles Times
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Tony Perry
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FALLOUJA NEIGHBORHOOD SUDDENLY TURNS FIERCE
Specific incidents / deaths The military estimated that at least 50 Iraqis were killed and 20 others were detained.
Date killed? 6th?
Total 50
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Two days after cordoning off this restive city 30 miles west of Baghdad, Marines were beginning to view the quiet, residential neighborhood as relatively safe. Local farmers appeared receptive to their calls for cooperation and Marines had offered to pay compensation to a few whose property was damaged by their operations.

So when a squad of Marines emerged from behind its covered checkpoint Tuesday to begin a foot patrol, hostile fire was not what it expected.

Within seconds, everyone was diving for cover amid a barrage of bullets.

"There was fire all around my feet," said one of the Marines in the patrol.

Three Marines were wounded, including one hit by a bullet that pierced his helmet and lodged in his head and another shot in the leg.

Tanks, Humvees and helicopters quickly arrived to attack parts of the neighborhood, destroying one building. After treating the Marine's head injury, one serviceman grabbed his M-16 and joined the retaliatory strike.

Insurgents, meanwhile, were demonstrating a resolve of their own.

When Marines entered the neighborhood in tanks and helicopters, insurgents held their positions and fired back with rifles, mortars and small arms.

Residents reported that insurgent cells, which had been lying low in recent days, had a higher profile Tuesday, openly carrying weapons and positioning grenade launchers in the middle of the streets. One carload of Iraqis was captured while attempting to plant homemade bombs in the road.

"We will continue to resist them," said Abu Khamis Khulaifawi, who described himself as part of the insurgency in Fallouja. "We have enough mortars, enough rocket-propelled grenades and enough light arms."

Insurgents also appeared to have a strategy to defend the city.

They have blocked streets with buses and other vehicles in an attempt to divert military vehicles and have used an antiaircraft gun - later destroyed - to try to shoot down helicopters. One copter was hit by small-arms fire but not seriously damaged. The insurgents are using buses to transport fighters around the city and have darted in with cars to retrieve their dead after battles.

Falloujans set up a field hospital to stand in for the city's main facility, which is close to Marine positions.

US/military viewpoint

Maj. Brandon McGowan, executive officer of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Regiment, said the Marines' mission was going smoothly, and he was not surprised by the insurgents' willingness to attack. In fact, he said, he was counting on it.

"If they want to come out and fight, that's fine with us," he said. "That way we don't have to go house to house to find them. They'll fall into our hands more easily."

Staff Sgt. Eric Perry, 34, who is on his second tour in Iraq after participating in the invasion last spring, said the battle for control of Fallouja has been more challenging.

"It's much more dangerous this time," he said. "The other times at least you knew who your enemy was. Now you don't know who is your friend."

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Independent
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Patrick Cockburn
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IRAQI CONFLICT SPREADS AS US FAILS TO QUELL SUNNI AND SHIA REVOLT
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Selected info, comment, analysis Five marines were reported killed in the operation, but Iraqi casualties are unknown because ambulances are not being allowed to enter the town.
US/military viewpoint "The city is surrounded", said Lieutenant James Vanzant, a spokesman for the marines. "We want to make a very precise approach to this. We are looking for bad guys in town."
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service
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Baghdad: Dar al-Salam Radio in Arabic 1000 GMT
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IRAQ: HUMAN RIGHTS SOCIETY APPEALS FOR HELP TO AL-FALLUJAH HOSPITALS
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Sawt al-Hurriyah [Freedom Voice] Society for Human Rights has addressed the following appeal:

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In view of the violent and tragic situation currently encountering the people of Al-Fallujah and due to the large number of wounded and casualties as a result of the indiscriminate aerial and land bombing and the acute shortage of medicine and medical supplies at the Al-Fallujah hospitals, we appeal to the Iraqi Health Ministry, the International Commission of the Red Cross, and the Iraqi Red Crescent to shoulder their responsibility toward this humanitarian tragedy to alleviate the people's suffering.

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Gulf News
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ALISSA J. RUBIN [Los Angeles Times]
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IRAQIS' FIERY ANGER TOO HOT FOR THE US
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Not for the first time, the United States military has sworn to "pacify" Fallujah. But none of the options facing commanders in the defiant Sunni Triangle city appear to hold more promise than the gamut of tactics that have been attempted, without success, for nearly a year.

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The US military has promised to avenge the deaths of four US civilian contractors whose remains were mutilated in the city last week. Military officials say no options have been ruled out: airpower, overwhelming ground forces, house searches and mass arrests.

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The local power structure is the product of alliances between fiercely insular tribal clans, a growing Islamic movement and former Baath Party businessmen and intelligence officers, who have helped bankroll the insurgency and plot some of its more sophisticated attacks.

Only a handful of people are active insurgents, but because of widespread antagonism towards all westerners and the inability of the US-led coalition to crush the insurgency, the local population is always hedging its bets, careful not to alienate the forces that could soon be in charge again.

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In a peaceful country with a developed economy, two police officers per 1,000 people are enough to maintain calm, Clarke said. In Northern Ireland in the 1970s, the police needed 20 per 1,000. But in Iraq, 20 security personnel per 1,000 people would translate to 500,000 security forces - far more than the Iraqi personnel and coalition troops combined.

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But last month's fatal firefight between Marines and residents that killed up to 20 Iraqis, followed by the attack on US civilians, greatly complicates the prospects for such efforts.

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Dodge, the Iraq expert, agreed. "The first question is, can the US troops control this area of the [Sunni] Triangle? The second question is, can US troops control Iraq?" he said. "The answer to both questions is, painfully, 'No'."

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Times
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COALITION VOWS TO CRUSH SHIA MILITIA BUT VIOLENCE CONTINUES
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In Sunni-controlled Fallujah, US Marines and gunmen are engaged in heavy battles Overnight fighting there has left 60 Iraqis dead and wounded another 130, local hospital officials said.

Date killed? night of 6th-7th
Total 60
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More than 140 Iraqis and 30 American soldiers have died in three days of clashes.

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Associated Press
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Bassem Mroue
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MOSQUE HIT IN FALLUJAH
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Witnesses said the strike came as worshippers had gathered for afternoon prayers.

An Associated Press reporter saw cars ferrying out dead and wounded. Witnesses estimated that as many as 40 people were killed.

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Sixteen children and eight women were reported killed when warplanes struck four houses late Tuesday, said Hatem Samir, a Fallujah Hospital official.

Date killed? night of 6th & daytime 7th
Total 16 (children) + 8 (women) 40 (mosque) = 64
Civilian / Fighter 24 women & children
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The fight began when a Marine vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade fired from the mosque, wounding five Marines, and a large U.S. force converged on it, Byrne said.

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The military gave widely varying accounting of the casualties. Master Sgt. Robert Beyer, a spokesman for the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in Camp Pendleton, Calif., said that one "enemy combatant" was killed, and there were "no worshippers" or civilian casualties. Byrne, in Iraq, said "we believe we killed a bunch of these guys."

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Because casualties were rushed to makeshift clinics in private homes and mosques, the number of dead and wounded was unclear.

During fighting elsewhere in Fallujah, U.S. forces seized another mosque, the al-Muadidi mosque, and a Marine climbed its minaret and fired down on gunmen, witnesses said. Insurgents hit the minaret with rocket-propelled grenades, causing it to partly collapse, the AP reporter said.

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Since Sunday, 34 Americans, two other coalition soldiers and more than 190 Iraqis had been killed in fighting across the country. The Iraqi figure did not include those killed at the mosque.

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