US launches overnight air attacks in Iraqi flashpoint city of Fallujah

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=afp/iraq_unrest_fallujah

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFP) - US forces again conducted airstrikes against insurgents in Fallujah overnight, a spokesman for the US Marines besieging the flashpoint Iraqi city said.



The latest airstrike came as the marines decided to postpone planned patrols of the powderkeg city which were initially due to start Thursday, but are now scheduled to get under way later this week.


US fighter jets and gunships have been pounding positions in the Sunni Muslim stronghold since Tuesday.


Overnight, "an AC-130 was used to engage some individuals who ambushed a convoy," said Captain Christopher Logan, a spokesman at the US Marines Camp Fallujah base.


He said there were no American casualties. He did not know whether there were any dead or wounded on the other side.
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1. Strange peace

“Even though it may not look like it, there is still a determined aspiration on the part of the coalition to maintain a cease-fire and solve the situation in Fallujah by peaceful means,” U.S. Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4824213/
MSNBC News Services
Updated: 7:25 a.m. ET April 29, 2004

[Tempest]

2. George Orwell is spinning in his grave

War is Peace.