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	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Police station torn down in defiant Falluja
		Although the al-Tawhid police station was ransacked in the days immediately after the war, the US military had used the building intermittently as a centre for operations in Falluja and were negotiating to set up a full time base there.
		Falluja has emerged as a centre of anti-American resentment that covers a broad area of the country to the west of the capital Baghdad.
		But many in the crowd that gathered outside the police station in Falluja yesterday insisted they had welcomed the fall of Saddam Hussein, but were angered by the continued US military presence in a town dominated by a deeply conservative religious and tribal culture.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,972483,00.html (889 words)

	Iraq Rebels Hit Back Amid Falluja Battles
		FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) -- U.S. troops fought to crush resistance in the Iraqi city of Falluja on Thursday, but rebels hit back with an armed rampage in Mosul and a car bomb that killed 17 people in a crowded Baghdad street.
		In Falluja, residents said the stench of decomposing bodies hung over the city, power and water supplies were cut and food was running out for thousands of trapped civilians.
		Weeping relatives of one of the hostages said on a videotape aired by Lebanon's LBC television that she was nine months pregnant and begged her captors to free her.
	www.aina.org /news/20041111162507.htm (800 words)

	Islamic Relief - IR Aid for Falluja Families
		The displaced families are either living in makeshift camps on the outskirts of town, or have been sheltered by relatives or generous strangers in Baghdad and surrounding villages.
		Since April 5th Falluja’ s residents have been mainly confined to their homes, often for days, restricting their access to food, water and medicine.
		Falluja’s displaced families sheltering in Baghdad have also received help from IR including food, water, clothes, blankets, sleeping mats, and hygiene and kitchen kits.
	www.islamic-relief.com /submenu/About%20Us/visits/nande_article.asp?id=32 (373 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| The strange case of Falluja 2
		Falluja 2 is one of the reasons Britain is planning to go to war.
		Listed as the headquarters of the Tariq state company, this £14m chemical plant was purchased from abroad in the 1980s to make chlorine, part one in a process from which outlawed chemical weapons such as mustard gas and the nerve gases tabun and sarin can be produced.
		Mr Channon and his officials concealed the existence of the Falluja contract not only from the British public, but also from the US administration, which was trying to curb sales of chemical warfare equipment.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,908237,00.html (1317 words)

	Politics \| Falluja in their sights
		Falluja is already now being bombed daily, as it is softened up for the long-awaited siege.
		I made it back into Falluja during the second week of fighting by using fake Iraqi ID. I was accompanied by a translator who told people I was a brother suffering a brain aneurysm.
		Once we got into Falluja, we were taken at gunpoint to a mosque where we were interrogated by a host of people - former Iraqi secret police and Islamists - before being saved by a friend of my translator's who told us later they were holding 18 hostages in another room.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5044069-111381,00.html (1195 words)

	US Labor Against the War : Human 'Disaster' Looms in Encircled Falluja
		FALLUJA, Iraq -- Fighting in Falluja has created a humanitarian disaster in which innocent people are dying because medical help cannot reach them, aid workers in Iraq said today.
		In one case, a pregnant woman and her child died in a refugee camp west of the city after the mother unexpectedly aborted and no doctors were on hand, Firdoos al-Ubadi, an official from the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, said.
		It is unclear how many civilians are left in Falluja, but the US military estimates 150,000, or half the entire population, have fled the city since they began shaping up for an offensive in October.
	www.uslaboragainstwar.org /article.php?id=7088&printsafe=1 (720 words)

	TomDispatch - Tomgram: Mark LeVine, Four Times Falluja Equals?
		Of the many possible outcomes to the battle of Falluja, the four which seem most plausible follow, starting with the one that might be viewed most positively by the Bush administration.
		At the same time, the many month-long threat of a massive attack on Falluja seems to have created fracture lines in the resistance between indigenous groups seeking political solutions that might avoid mass civilian casualties and smaller groups of foreign jihadists, unbound by local ties and determined to fight to the death.
		Yet if enough resistance fighters are killed to reclaim Falluja and sap the force of the insurgency in other cities, American strategists can at least hope to be on their way to a limited pacification of Sunni Iraq.
	www.tomdispatch.com /index.mhtml?pid=1999 (3224 words)

	News: Iraq, Iraq: Falluja a humanitarian crisis, aid workers say
		At least 2,200 families have fled Falluja in recent days and are struggling to survive without enough water, food or medicine in nearby towns and villages, she said.
		But the biggest concern is people in and around Falluja itself -- they can't be reached because U.S. and Iraqi forces have set up a wide cordon around the city to prevent anyone from entering and any insurgents from fleeing.
		One mother and her three daughters had intended to flee but their home was hit by a bombardment earlier this week and all died, neighbours who escaped told aid workers.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/797e0ffc2e74500085256f49006d42f7 (753 words)

	Falluja a 'Big Disaster,' Aid Needed - Red Crescent
		Scores of buildings in Falluja have been completely destroyed, with TV footage showing some districts all but leveled.
		Rasoul Ibrahim, a father of three, fled Falluja on Thursday morning and arrived with his wife and children in Habbaniya, about 20 km (12 miles) to the west, on Thursday night.
		She said a convoy of aid, including drinking water, food and medicine, was ready to leave for Falluja from Amiriya, a town to the south, but needed permission from U.S. forces.
	www.infowars.com /articles/iraq/falluja_huge_disaster.htm (581 words)

	CNN.com - Outgoing commander questions U.S. strategy on Falluja - Sep 14, 2004
		FALLUJA, Iraq (CNN) -- A former U.S. Marine commander of forces in western Iraq says he was opposed to the method and timing of the U.S. response to attacks on Americans last spring in the Sunni Muslim stronghold of Falluja.
		The Army had generally left Falluja alone, and Conway and his Marines planned to use reconstruction and civil affairs projects to win support among Iraqis in that volatile part of the country.
		The Falluja Brigade, labeled by Conway as an experiment, was dissolved last week, and former members were offered a chance to join the Iraqi army.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/09/13/falluja/index.html (673 words)

	Falluja : Screams will not be heard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The horrifying shift in the last century was how, increasingly, war was waged against civilians: their proportion of the death toll rose from 50% to 90%.
		By the time the bulldozers have ploughed their way through the centre of Falluja, attention could have shifted to another "final assault" on another "militant stronghold", as another city of homes, shops and children's playgrounds morphs into a battleground.
		Only by the shores of that dusty lake in Dreamland would it be possible to believe that the ruination of this city will do anything to enhance the legitimacy of the US occupation and of the Iraqi government it appointed.
	www.stopusa.be /scripts/texte.php?section=BD&langue=3&id=23170 (1161 words)

	Falluja's defiance of a new empire
		Falluja - known as the city of a thousand mosques - attracted Saddam's wrath in 1998 when its imams refused to hail the tyrant in their Friday sermons.
		But, remorselessly, little-known Falluja became a world-renowned centre of defiance, where a poor and poorly armed people has courageously faced the military wing of the new empire.
		The people of Falluja, their leaders, negotiators and resistance fighters have always denounced Zarqawi and argued that such gangs have been encouraged to undermine the resistance.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article7269.htm (790 words)

	US Troops Hunt Falluja Rebels, Keep Aid Out
		No help has reached civilians in Falluja since the assault began on Monday and U.S. forces kept a Red Crescent aid convoy of seven trucks and ambulances waiting at the main hospital near a bridge over the Euphrates River on the edge of the city.
		It is unclear how many of Falluja's 300,000 people remain, but about half are thought to have fled the fighting.
		The Falluja offensive has fueled violence across Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland, especially in the northern city of Mosul, where an uprising has left gunmen roaming some districts.
	www.rense.com /general59/rebels.htm (713 words)

	CNN.com - Battle for Falluja under way - Nov 8, 2004
		Falluja is considered an insurgent command-and-control center for the rest of the country and a base for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terror network.
		Success in Falluja will deal a blow to the terrorists in the country and should move Iraq further away from a future of violence to one of freedom and opportunity for the Iraqi people.
		Falluja's population was estimated to be 250,000 to 300,000 before warfare escalated in the city earlier this year.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/11/08/iraq.main/index.html (1256 words)

	The News From Planet Falluja
		For the rest of his days in Falluja he was in the custody of a resistance cell made up of about ten local Falluja boys who had military experience but very little education.
		In Falluja the front is the north edge of town, along the Askari ("officers") neighborhood, which ends at the edge of Iraq's main east-west highway.
		Tariq also says that the recent airstrikes on alleged safehouses in Falluja, such as the one on June 22 that killed about twenty people or the one on July 1 that killed four and wounded ten, were in fact precision strikes, in which spies had first dropped infrared beacons just before the attacks.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/0706-07.htm (1798 words)

	Iraqis bury Falluja’s dead and crowds proclaim America is the enemy of God - [Sunday Herald] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Local police fired shots in the air to disperse demonstrators in the town of Falluja as the first coffin was carried to a cemetery.
		Falluja residents were also mourning the death of a three-year-old girl who was shot in the head by American soldiers during street fighting late on Friday.
		Witnesses in Falluja said Iraqi guerrillas fired on a US base just outside the town in the early hours of yesterday, but US soldiers on the scene insisted there were no casualties.
	www.sundayherald.com /36694 (474 words)

	The New Yorker: Fact
		Falluja is one of the most religiously conservative towns in the “Sunni triangle,” but the recent confluence of the Shiite uprising led by Moqtada al-Sadr and the siege of Falluja by the marines had created a curious alliance that transcended religious differences.
		Falluja was the only city in Iraq that was surrendered to a local military force with strong connections to the previous regime.
		Falluja is known as medinat al-masajid, the city of mosques, of which it has at least eighty, and the Hadhra is small and faded compared to others.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content/?040705fa_fact (4607 words)

	The City of Falluja
		And so, the city of Falluja becomes a myth of bravery and a symbol—not only among the Iraqi people but also among the wider Arab and Muslim world—for the war against the infidels.[2] Naturally, the United States, with her advanced military might, has come to epitomize the infidel.
		The story of Falluja in April 2004 is embellished by Sheikh Abu Anas al-Shami, a close associate of Musab Al-Zarkawi in Falluja.
		According to him, the rebels nearly lost the battle for Falluja, as they were feeling hopeless and close to surrender as a result of the siege and the numerous casualties.
	www.ict.org.il /articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=522 (846 words)

	Falluja rebels battle on
		FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes have bombarded hard core rebel areas of Falluja and troops hunted insurgents house-to-house, while heavy clashes broke out in other cities and insurgents attacked Iraq’s oil network.
		The U.S. Marine general who commanded the fight to take Falluja said those who remained were the rebel hard core who would be killed.
		In operations in Falluja on Monday, U.S. forces said they had found a bunker with reinforced tunnels leading to stores of weapons, including an anti-aircraft artillery gun.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2004/11/15/world/fallujarebelsbattleon.html&template=/news/feeds/story_template.html (958 words)

	Terrorists in Falluja
		Falluja inhabitants have been running away since mid-April 2003, when the first US attacks were mounted against the city.
		Falluja was once called the city of minarets.
		Kamel Mohamed, who was getting ready to leave Falluja, said that he had heard that there were Arab fighters in the city, but he never saw any of them.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article7121.htm (868 words)

	CNN.com - U.S., Iraqis enter Falluja's center - Nov 9, 2004
		Falluja is considered an insurgent command-and-control center for the rest of the country and a base for Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terror network.
		The aim of the Falluja assault is to root out insurgents ahead of scheduled January elections for a transitional national assembly.
		Falluja's population was estimated to be 250,000 to 300,000 before warfare escalated in the city this year.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/11/09/iraq.main/index.html (1080 words)

	Falluja's Health Damage
		It was well-known that the Falluja facility was a health center operating as a small hospital, a protected institution under international law.
		US and allied Iraqi military forces stormed the Falluja General Hospital, which is on the perimeter of the city, at the beginning of the assault, claiming it was under insurgent control and was a center of propaganda about civilian casualties during last April's attack on the city.
		The Iraqi Red Crescent Society has called the health conditions in and around Falluja "catastrophic." One hospital staff member who recently left the city reports that there were severe outbreaks of diarrheal infections among the population, with children and the elderly dying from infectious disease, starvation and dehydration in greater numbers each day.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/1126-01.htm (1128 words)

	Failure after Falluja?: Newsroom: The Independent Institute
		The U.S. military “victory” in Falluja is unlikely to change the dismal course of the guerilla war in Iraq.
		Politically, Falluja came to symbolize Iraqi national resistance to a foreign occupier (notwithstanding the administration’s propaganda that the insurgents consist only of foreign terrorists and former Saddam loyalists).
		Even a leaked report by the intelligence officers of a Marine unit fighting in Falluja admitted that leveling the city with heavy firepower would probably act as a rallying cry for resistance among Iraqis—much as the loss of the Alamo did for Texans in fighting the Mexicans in the 1830s.
	www.independent.org /newsroom/article.asp?id=1428 (1030 words)

	IBC Fallujah Archive - Index Page
		The IBC Falluja* Archive is derived from nearly three hundred selected news stories on the April 2004 siege of Falluja, with an emphasis on the humanitarian impact.
		It organises extracts reporting specific deaths or injuries of civilians and combatants, cumulative death tallies as collated by various authorities within and outside Falluja, as well as additional on-the-ground and background reportage on the siege, and how the US military and goverment explained or presented their actions.
		Below is an example IBC Falluja table and single entry.The heading gives the publication date of all stories in that table.
	www.iraqbodycount.net /resources/falluja (981 words)

	CNN.com - Falluja 'a horror' after U.S.-led offensive - Nov 30, 2004
		FALLUJA, Iraq (CNN) -- Mahmoud Zubari and his family fled their home in Falluja after it was bombed and his 13-year-old son was killed.
		Zubari, his wife and their remaining eight children, ages 2 to 16, spent the next 20 days in the house of a friend while the U.S.-led onslaught to drive out insurgents in the city got under way.
		Michael Ramos, a battalion commander with the combat team in charge of northeastern Falluja, said Marines have so far identified 20 families in his sector, but there may be up to 50.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/11/30/falluja.residents/index.html (629 words)

	'Improved' Napalm For Falluja With 'Improved' EffectBy Mike Whitney
		For over a week rumors have circulated in the Arab press that both napalm and other chemical weapons were used mainly in the Jolan district of Falluja, a major area of the fighting.
		There’s no doubt that the US “embedded” media is being prevented from seeing the vast devastation and carnage of Falluja so they won’t be exposed to the suspicious looking corpses that still litter the city.
		The firebombing in Falluja shows that they won’t be constrained by international rules prohibiting the use of banned weapons.
	www.countercurrents.org /iraq-whitney021204.htm (794 words)

	House By House, Falluja Falls
		US troops pushed into the centre of Falluja yesterday, fighting their way from house to house and shooting their way through bands of militants in their drive to recapture the city that has been the centre of insurgency since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
		That may suggest fighters slipped away from Falluja before the battle began, or that troops have yet to reach the heaviest concentrations of insurgents.
		Sami al-Jumaili, a doctor at the main Falluja hospital seized by US troops on Sunday night, said he was treating the injured in a private house.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/11-9-2004-61428.asp (834 words)

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