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Fallujah, Iraq - A U.S. AC-130 gunship raked Iraqi insurgents Friday night after hundreds of women and children fled the besieged city Fallujah during a U.S.-declared pause in the marine offensive. On the anniversary of the fall of captive Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's regime, Baghdad and parts of central Iraq were chaotic. At a square in the capital where Saddam's statue was toppled a year ago, soldiers took down a new icon: pictures of the radical Shiite Muslim cleric whose followers have risen up against coalition forces in the south. Gunmen running rampant on Baghdad's western edge attacked a fuel...

Both BBC and Sky reporting that offensive operations are resuming in Fallujah

Update from Iraq U.S./Coalition Forces including the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps (ICDC) are making great strides this week in Iraq. Due to all the coverage in the news we (TF 185th) felt it necessary to give a mid-week update and explain what’s really going on over here. We will cover two issues: The Fallujah situation and Shiite Muslim cleric Sadr situation. These situations are fully under control and will ultimately have a pro U.S./Coalition outcome. Conflict in Fallujah. For some time, the city has been used as a safe haven for former Saddam loyalists, foreign terrorists, criminals, and anyone else...