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Taking it to the mean streets

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FALLUJAH, IRAQ--At first glance, the desolate, rubble-strewn streets seem serene, like an abandoned movie set of an action blockbuster. American soldiers manning a tank on an empty street sit still in the afternoon sun, watching plumes of smoke vanish on a breeze as a rare moment of calm falls over a section of the city ostensibly under U.S. Army control. Suddenly, a sign of life: on a rooftop, the darkened outline of an enemy fighter, the flash of an AK-47.

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You break it, you pay for it

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Camp Fallujah, Iraq (news - web sites)--As block-by-block fighting raged last week in Fallujah, a group of eager Army reservists awaited the OK for their specialized mission: to go into the city's battle-scarred neighborhoods and pay reparations to Iraqi civilians for some of the destruction from bombardment by U.S. fighter planes, artillery, and tank fire.

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Taking Fallujah

FALLUJAH, IRAQ--The sky lit up in orange flames, twinkling with ribbons of red tracer fire last week as the U.S. military, trailed by a modest contingent of Iraqi forces, pushed to reclaim this insurgent stronghold. Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles ground into the pavement shattered by artillery fire, leaving behind them clouds of translucent orange dust. Across the city, the thump and thud of artillery and tank fire reverberated in an eerie soundtrack that played throughout the week. "That will be the last sound they ever hear," Lt. Col. Peter Newell told the 1st Infantry Division's Task Force 2-2, as it swept into Fallujah.

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