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1,000 rebels die in assault on Fallujah
FALLUJAH: About 1,000 insurgents have been killed and 200 injured in a week-long offensive in Fallujah as US troops backed by tanks and artillery fire, launched a major attack yesterday against insurgent holdouts.
But, insurgents have stepped up attacks in other parts of Iraq with rebels nearly gaining control of some parts of Mosul. A statement in the name of 13 militant groups, including that of Al Qaeda frontman Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, vowed yesterday to take the battle for their bastion of Fallujah to all corners of Iraq.
But, insurgents have stepped up attacks in other parts of Iraq with rebels nearly gaining control of some parts of Mosul. A statement in the name of 13 militant groups, including that of Al Qaeda frontman Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, vowed yesterday to take the battle for their bastion of Fallujah to all corners of Iraq.
Last night, at least five heavy explosions rocked central Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, seat of the Iraqi government and home to the US and British embassies, witnesses said.
In a statement on its website, the Islamist militant group Army of Ansar Al Sunna said it was behind the attack. Earlier, insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked the Ministry of Education, a witness said. Iraqi police also clashed with militants.
US Marines in northern Fallujah were hunting for about a dozen insurgents dressed in National Guard uniforms after reports they were wandering the city.
Overnight, two city mosques were hit by airstrikes after troops reported sniper fire from inside. Yesterday, two Marines were killed by a home-made bomb southeast of Fallujah, raising the American death toll in the operation to at least 24.
A US warplane dropped a 500-pound bomb to destroy an insurgent tunnel network in the city, CNN reported.
A four-vehicle convoy of the Iraqi Red Crescent carrying humanitarian assistance arrived in Fallujah after the Iraqi and American troops allowed them to pass. "Conditions ... are catastrophic," said the Red Crescent's Firdoos Al Abadi, whose organisation says there are severe shortages of food and medicine in Fallujah.
Abadi said Red Crescent's five trucks and three ambulances had arrived at the main hospital in Fallujah.
US airstrikes and clashes between troops and rebels left four dead and 29 others wounded in west of Baghdad on a highway stretching toward Fallujah, hospital officials said.
US officials confirmed the arrest of about 14 suspected foreign fighters, but Dawoud said yesterday that Al Zarqawi and Fallujah leader Abdullah Al Janabi "have escaped." Dawoud also estimated that 90 per cent of Fallujah's residents evacuated before the assault.
Meanwhile, the US military said four American helicopters had been hit by insurgent ground fire in separate attacks near Fallujah.
Violence flared elsewhere in the volatile Sunni Muslim areas, from Hawija and Tal Afar in the north to Samarra and Ramadi in central Iraq.
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=96498&Sn=WORL&IssueID=27239
In a statement on its website, the Islamist militant group Army of Ansar Al Sunna said it was behind the attack. Earlier, insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked the Ministry of Education, a witness said. Iraqi police also clashed with militants.
US Marines in northern Fallujah were hunting for about a dozen insurgents dressed in National Guard uniforms after reports they were wandering the city.
Overnight, two city mosques were hit by airstrikes after troops reported sniper fire from inside. Yesterday, two Marines were killed by a home-made bomb southeast of Fallujah, raising the American death toll in the operation to at least 24.
A US warplane dropped a 500-pound bomb to destroy an insurgent tunnel network in the city, CNN reported.
A four-vehicle convoy of the Iraqi Red Crescent carrying humanitarian assistance arrived in Fallujah after the Iraqi and American troops allowed them to pass. "Conditions ... are catastrophic," said the Red Crescent's Firdoos Al Abadi, whose organisation says there are severe shortages of food and medicine in Fallujah.
Abadi said Red Crescent's five trucks and three ambulances had arrived at the main hospital in Fallujah.
US airstrikes and clashes between troops and rebels left four dead and 29 others wounded in west of Baghdad on a highway stretching toward Fallujah, hospital officials said.
US officials confirmed the arrest of about 14 suspected foreign fighters, but Dawoud said yesterday that Al Zarqawi and Fallujah leader Abdullah Al Janabi "have escaped." Dawoud also estimated that 90 per cent of Fallujah's residents evacuated before the assault.
Meanwhile, the US military said four American helicopters had been hit by insurgent ground fire in separate attacks near Fallujah.
Violence flared elsewhere in the volatile Sunni Muslim areas, from Hawija and Tal Afar in the north to Samarra and Ramadi in central Iraq.
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=96498&Sn=WORL&IssueID=27239
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