In 2004, Fallujah was the big story in Iraq. The Sunni city had been taken over by al-Qaida - and the U.S. Marines invaded in force in that November, succeeding in driving out most of the fighters.But it came at a huge cost. Many of the al-Qaida militants escaped to fight another day, and Fallujah [...]

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BAGHDAD, Jan 21 (KUNA) — Four of al-Sahwa (Awakening) militia were killed during a clash with al-Qaeda militants in Falluja western Baghdad, police said on Monday.
The confrontation took place when al-Qaeda armed men attacked a check point set by the militia in the nearby area of al-Karma, an Iraqi police source told KUNA.
The attack also [...]

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The Iraqi victory in football’s Asian Cup in July 2007 prompted joy across the country - and sparked an idea in a football fan far away in the United States.
Boston travel agent Roxana von Kraus decided to print 100 posters of the winning team to send to her son, a US marine on his [...]

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BRITISH Royal Marine Colour Sergeant Matt Tomlinson was attached to a United States Marine Corps team in northern Iraq.
He had originally been to the US for an exchange programme but persuaded his counterparts to let him join them in Fallujah.
CSgt Tomlinson, 40, from Bridport, specialises in small boats and landing craft and joined as a [...]

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 2007 - Coalition forces wounded one suspected terrorist and detained 19 others today during operations to disrupt foreign terrorist networks in central Iraq.– Southeast of Fallujah, coalition forces targeted an associate of an al Qaeda network responsible for insurgent activities in the region, including car-bomb and improvised-explosive-device attacks. As coalition forces arrived [...]

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Marine Gunnery Sgt. Nick Popaditch didn’t like what he saw ahead of his tank in Fallujah, Iraq.It was late afternoon April 6, 2004, two days into an offensive to retake the city and avenge the four U.S. contractors whose burned bodies had been hung from a train trestle. Popaditch commanded a pair of tanks sent [...]

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BAGHDAD, Nov 8 (KUNA) — The Iraqi police said on Thursday that a bomb blast in Falluja has killed two senior Iraqi policemen and four security guards.
An Iraqi security source told KUNA that a bomb exploded near an Iraqi patrol today in the area of Al-Karma north of Falluja west of here.
The source said that [...]

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 FALLUJAH, Iraq - The car bomb in Fallujah exploded in May. On that warm evening, insurgents drove a vehicle packed with explosives into mourners of a slain local tribal leader as they wound through a ramshackle corner of the city, killing 20.
The next day, Fallujah’s mayor banned all vehicles from city streets.
If there were no [...]

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Cpl. Cody Wanken was in Fallujah with some time to kill, so he started writing.
“A young man, a young Marine, a younger brother, a baby to his mother and father,” the 19-year-old Marine from Hampton began. “A man not feared by struggle but scared to fail. A man wanting to follow in his father’s footsteps [...]

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WASHINGTON - Security improvements in Fallujah, Iraq, are allowing coalition forces and Iraqis to reinforce success, the city’s provincial reconstruction team leader said today.A year ago, Fallujah was a battlefield between al Qaeda and coalition forces. Today it is recovering, and local Iraqi leaders are setting the pace of that recovery, said Stephen G. Fakan, [...]

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