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	Operation Phantom Fury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was the second major operation in Fallujah; in April, Operation Vigilant Resolve was an abortive attempt to capture the city.
		Diversion: Ground operations began on the night of November 7, 2004 with the Iraqi 36th Commando Battalion, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, and Company B, 1st Battalion, 23rd Marines attacking from the west and south, capturing Fallujah General Hospital and villages opposite the Euphrates River along Fallujah's Western edge.
		Subsequent U.S. military operations against insurgent positions were ineffective at drawing out insurgents into another open battle, and by September 2006 the situation had deteriorated to the point that the Anbar province that contained Falluja was reported to be in total insurgent control by the U.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Phantom_Fury (2170 words)

	'Phantom Fury' Poised to Become Phantom Victory by Jim Lobe
		With Monday's launch of "Operation Phantom Fury" to regain control of the key insurgent-dominated Sunni city of Fallujah, the administration of U.S. President George W Bush appears to be moving toward another "phantom victory" in its broader quest to achieve a stable, pro-western Iraq.
		While experts here are united in the conviction that the 10,000–15,000 US troops and a reportedly diminishing number of Iraqi auxiliaries will militarily crush the estimated 1,000–4,000 insurgents who remain in the city, they also believe the eventual outcome will mark yet another political setback to stabilizing the country.
		In particular, the operation, especially if bloody and protracted, will almost certainly further alienate the Sunni population, who constitute about 20 percent of Iraq's 25 million people, not to mention the much larger Sunni communities in neighboring countries, including Saudi Arabia, the Gulf emirates, Jordan, Syria and Turkey.
	www.lewrockwell.com /ips/lobe151.html (797 words)

	Fallujah: Operation al-Fajr (Dawn), Part 2
		The area must be quelled and kept under control as the Iraqi national elections scheduled for the end of January are fast approaching.
		Operation Phantom Fury - renamed Operation al-Fajr (Dawn) - is the inevitable follow-up to Operation Vigilant Resolve - a military crackdown in Fallujah last April designed to pacify rebellious residents and terrorists.
		After four US civilian contractors were murdered and their bodies publicly mutilated in Fallujah last March, 700 Marines spend three weeks fighting bloody battles in the shadows of the Sunni stronghold.
	www.kumawar.com /FallujahOperation2Variation/detail.php (733 words)

	USATODAY.com - Saddam said to have undergone operation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The operation lasted about an hour and Saddam Hussein was returned to his cell the same day.
		The ousted dictator was taken to the Ibn Sina hospital near the U.S.-controlled Green Zone for the procedure, which was performed by Iraqi doctors, according to sources close to the Human Rights Ministry.
		The operation lasted about an hour and Saddam was returned to his cell the same day, the sources said on condition of anonymity.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-10-12-saddam-operation_x.htm (402 words)

	Phantom Fury in Fallujah
		"Phantom Fury" is the perfect name for the latest U.S.-led assault on Fallujah, but not for the reasons the marketing wizards at the Pentagon might think.
		While creating the perception that the insurgents in Iraq are being defeated, Phantom Fury is likely to have the opposite effect, just like all the other, long-forgotten offensives since April 2003.
		The end result is that we are now creating enemies faster than we can kill them off, as Operation Phantom Fury lives up to its unfortunate name of being all fury and phantom success.
	www.truthout.org /docs_04/printer_111804Z.shtml (1737 words)

	Ramblings' Journal: Operation Phantom Fury now underway in Fallujah
		FOX News' Greg Palkot, embedded with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said Monday that the unit was overlooking the northwest corner of Fallujah, where a series of tanks had been pounding positions inside the city for two hours.
		Ground commanders targeted three areas they believe guerrillas are operating and it looked as if preparations were being made for full-scale ground assault in the near future, Palkot reported.
		Thousands of American troops are involved in the operation, designed to bring peace to Fallujah, and to remove the vast majority of insurgents and terrorists who are constantly making Iraq a dangerous place to be.
	mhking.mu.nu /archives/053948.php (312 words)

	RealClearPolitics
		The utter discipline with which the entire campaign operated suggests that their analysis was spot on from beginning to end.
		OPERATION PHANTOM FURY: For some reason, reading the details of Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah triggered the memory of this exchange between Michael Moore and Bill O'Reilly:
		History may also judge the success of Operation Phantom Fury as a decisive moment in the war in Iraq and some very real implications for the broader war on terror.
	www.realclearpolitics.com /Commentary/blog_11_9_04_1030.html (637 words)

	Operation Phantom Fury :: Interesting Videos
		This operation was initially named Phantom Fury by DoD.
		It was later renamed Operation al-Fajr (Arabic for Dawn) by the Iraqi Defence Minister.
		An estimated 10,000-15,000 American troops launched Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah on November 8, 2004.
	www.fugly.com /videos/5208/operation-phantom-fury.html (38 words)

	U.S. Forces Launch Attack on Fallujah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The assault, code-named Operation Phantom Fury, was led by U.S. Marines and members of the Army's 1st Infantry Division.
		Since political authority was turned back to the Iraqis in June, the final say on major U.S. military operations has resided with the government of Allawi.
		Among those said to be operating out of Fallujah is the Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab Zarqawi, whose group has asserted responsibility for kidnappings, beheadings, car bombings and other suicide strikes in Iraq, including bombings inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone that recently killed three American civilians and as many as six Iraqis.
	www.emjournal.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /nov0408.html (1050 words)

	Fallujah - 'This Ain't Over Yet' - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
		The raid was a capsule version of Operation Phantom Fury, last week's long-anticipated assault on the rebel-held city of Fallujah.
		Phantom Fury was designed to warn off all antagonists, inside or outside Iraq.
		The operation began on Monday night with an aerial bombardment unmatched since the "Shock and Awe" campaign of March 2003.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/6479801/site/newsweek (1081 words)

	Fallujah: Operation al-Fajr (Dawn)
		Operation Phantom Fury - later renamed Operation al-Fajr (Dawn) by the Iraqi Defense Minister - is the largest military campaign in nearly two years and an epic undertaking in the war in Iraq.
		A virtual avalanche of Marines, Army soldiers, and Iraqi forces are tasked with blasting their way through each and every structure in the insurgent stronghold.
		But their fortifications are no match for the American military, and it takes just six days for US troops to fight their way across Fallujah - a much quicker operation than expected.
	www.kumawar.com /FallujahOperation/overview.php (296 words)

	Operation Phantom Fury - Suchergebnis zu Operation Phantom Fury - Definition zu Operation Phantom Fury - Deutsches ...
		Die Operation Phantom Fury war die zweite Offensive, die gegen die Stadt durchgeführt wurde.
		Die Operation Plymouth Rock löste Phantom Fury am 23.
		Dort findet sich neben einer Übersicht der Autoren die Möglichkeit, den Original-Text des Artikels Operation Phantom Fury zu editieren.
	www.bedeutungswoerterbuch.de /Operation_Phantom_Fury.html (2785 words)

	Iraqi Prime Minister Issues State of Emergency Throughout Country
		Terrorists were barricaded in Fallujah's main hospital which U.S. forces had seized as part of Operation 'Phantom Fury'.
		Marines operating in the northern sector also captured nine suspected insurgents in a series of raids near Yusufiyah.
		A second offensive operation by the Air Force and Marine Corps targeted insurgent barricades in the southeast.
	nyjtimes.com /cover/11-08-04/PMDeclaresEmergencyThroughoutIraq.htm (2185 words)

	On The Media- Sunni Triangulating
		This was Army General George W. Casey on Monday, briefing reporters on the latest developments in Operation Phantom Fury.
		GEORGE W. The name of the operation is an Arabic name -it's called - it's "Al Fajr" - and it's the Iraqi word for "dawn," and the Iraqi prime minister selected this for obvious reasons.
		This was, after all, a pacifying operation, and Phantom Fury sounded so destructive and-- furious.
	www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_111204_suni.html (708 words)

	Guardian \| A fine balance
		Fighting is fierce, or maybe it's not, in "Operation Phantom Fury," or perhaps "Operation al-Fajr," which was launched this week to wrest control of Falluja from Iraqi insurgents - or maybe foreign terrorists.
		When the operation against Falluja began, the US military referred to it as "Operation Phantom Fury".
		US officials appear happy for Mr Allawi to spin the fight any way he pleases, as long as it bolsters his image and prevents a public backlash similar to the one that arose during the April siege of Falluja.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5059596-103550,00.html (733 words)

	Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source for the Middle East
		The Pentagon spin machine is selling Operation Phantom Fury as a battle of good against evil to root out "terrorists" in the "militant stronghold" of Fallujah.
		Now, one of the first targets of Phantom Fury was a Fallujah hospital, qualified by the Pentagon as "a center of propaganda".
		But in terms of an attack on Fallujah and as far as the Iraqi resistance is concerned, the sheikh was sure that the mujahideen would adapt, retreat and later come back in full force.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/FK10Ak04.html (1959 words)

	US-IRAQI TROOPS IN NEW OFFENSIVE (Just breaking on BBC News!) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The operation in Babil province follows last week's U.S.-Iraqi victory over insurgent forces in Samarra and appeared to be the latest stage in a campaign to wrest control of rebel strongholds before January's national elections.
		Operation Phantom Fury is a key element of a wider US-led rolling offensive to stamp out insurgent strongholds before January elections.
		Operation Phantom Fury began with dead-of-night raids early Tuesday to arrest four Iraqis suspected of harboring insurgents - at least two of them local sheikhs.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1236103/posts (5484 words)

	Hacked By Fenner -> Operation Phantom Fury
		This operation was initially reported to have been named Phantom Fury.
		The assault on the city was an attempt to regain control of the city from insurgents in preparation for national elections scheduled for January 2005.
		Prior to the commencement of the operation, Prime Minister Ayad Allawi declared a state of emergency across Iraq, except for the Kurdish area of Iraq as violence flared in anticipation of the assault on Fallujah.
	www.streetracersonline.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=5517 (715 words)

	CNN.com - Battle for Falluja under way - Nov 8, 2004
		Also in Washington, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld told reporters that the battle for Falluja was critical for the success of the U.S.-led war on Iraq.
		Fourteen insurgents died and nine others were arrested in an Iraqi police operation against insurgents in the Babil province town of Latifiya Sunday night.
		The operation, involving about 100 police officers, netted a number of weapons, including machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and stolen cars.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/11/08/iraq.main/index.html (1278 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		The Pentagon calls it Phantom Fury, a shock and awe, Army and Marine, U.S. and Iraqi campaign to retake Falluja.
		Now, when Operation Phantom Fury ground assault got underway, that was preceded by some heavy artillery bombardment and also an aerial and mortar bombardment.
		It's being dubbed Operation Phantom Fury, but not long ago, from the head of this multinational force that has gone into Falluja, Iraq calling it Operation al Faja, meaning "dawn." So, a dual-named operation here as U.S. forces and Iraqi forces side by side right now in the middle of Falluja.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0411/08/lol.01.html (3828 words)

	Operation 'Phantom Fury' Underway, U.S. Troops Launch Ground Offensive Of Insurgent Stronghold Fallujah - CBS News
		The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. George Casey, predicted a "major confrontation" in the operation he said was called "al-Fajr," Arabic for "dawn." He told reporters in Washington that 10,000 to 15,000 U.S. troops along with a smaller number of Iraqi forces were encircling the city.
		Most U.S. units appeared to be lined up at the edge of their neighborhoods with some scouts and perhaps special operators venturing inside.
		Elizabeth Palmer, stationed with the Marines in Fallujah, reports on Operation Phantom Fury, which has already leveled parts of Fallujah.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/11/09/iraq/main654422.shtml (1595 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		What we're seeing now is other operations clearing parts of the city by fire, by -- there is heavy armor involved here, but they're using various means to go into the city and clear the way forward for other troops, to clear the way for the Marines on other sides of the city.
		Ten thousand Marines in one operation in one organization, along with the Iraqi forces that are coming in, we have got Marines it looks like on the southwest, the Army on the northeast.
		BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, Daryn, they are now calling this "Operation Phantom Fury." By all accounts, the battle for Falluja now well underway in its initial stages, as U.S. troops and Iraqi troops are now moving into key areas of the city.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0411/08/bn.01.html (6057 words)

	Fallujah Offensive Risks Turning Iraq War Into Vietnam War, say Greens
		"Even if Operation Phantom Fury succeeds in suppressing the insurgency in Fallujah, the result may be more sympathy for the Iraqi resistance throughout Iraq, which can hardly be called a victory," says Justine McCabe, Connecticut Green and member of the International Committee.
		In having announced the Fallujah attack well in advance of the operation itself, the Bush Administration gave insurgents time to prepare sufficient defense to place U.S. military personnel at great risk.
		The publicity for Operation Phantom Fury began before the attack - especially before Election Day - suggesting that one of the operation's chief purposes was homeland political propaganda.
	www.doorcountycompass.com /news/041114greens.htm (567 words)

	marines in iraq page 26
		Their persistence in the meticulous clearing of Fallujah houses and buildings has delivered captured enemy combatants, weapons caches and valuable information on the Fallujah insurgents, many of whom have fled the dangerous city.
		Operating in urban environments like Fallujah are some of the most dangerous military operations that can be conducted.
		At the request of the Interim Iraqi Government, Multi-National Forces in Iraq along with ISF began Operation Phantom Fury to eliminate AIF sanctuaries in Fallujah and allow the IIG to restore a legitimate government to the city.
	www.vetshome.com /marines_in_iraq_page_26.htm (782 words)

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