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	USATODAY.com - If Ramadi falls, 'province goes to hell'
		Ramadi, its capital, is home to the cream of Saddam's former military.
		With a population of 500,000, roughly equal to Oklahoma City, Ramadi spans a stretch of the Euphrates River.
		Marines in Ramadi are concerned that the local police and militia — numbering about 3,500, many of them trained by U.S. contractors in three-week courses — may be unprepared or unwilling to deal with insurgent violence.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-07-11-ramadi-usat_x.htm (1654 words)

	Crackdown in Ramadi
		In fact, Ramadi is a city of 400,000, the capital of Anbar Province; a peaceful enclave that never experienced any widespread violence or turmoil before the illegal invasion by the United States armed forces.
		Now, it is Ramadi’s turn; and although the strategy has been slightly modified, the same basic principle applies; using overwhelming military force to affect a political solution.
		Ramadi is another test for Rumsfeld’s “full spectrum dominance” of the news cycle.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article13746.htm (830 words)

	Ramadiyah / Ar Ramadi
		Ramadi was established for political reasons, but proved vital as a stop-over on the caravan routes between Baghdad and the cities of the Levant.
		Ramadi is one of several Sunni-majority towns along the Euphrates River west of Baghdad that was a stronghold of support for Saddam Hussein.
		At the end of Ramadi's traffic choked stretch of Highway 10, past the recovering city's sights, smells, and narrow streets lies a place where luxury is as unfamiliar as the territory.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/ramadiyah.htm (3262 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Return to Ramadi by Michael Fumento
		Ramadi: Operation Phantom Fury, the U.S. assault on Falluja in Iraq's Al Anbar Province in November 2004, is widely perceived as the greatest coalition victory against Iraq's insurgent and terrorist forces.
		Another value of the Ramadi COPs over the FOBs and Camp Ramadi is that we're fighting an enemy that relies primarily on roadway bombs--whether IEDS, vehicle-borne IEDs, or suicide-vehicle borne IEDs (driven vehicles)--to inflict casualties and damage, with the potential for greatly restricting movement.
		Ramadi is not Baghdad, with its roiling sectarian violence and militias.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25583 (7154 words)

	Ten Iraqis killed, 15 wounded in Ramadi clashes. 31/10/2004. ABC News Online
		Dr Hamdi al-Raoui said the Ramadi general hospital had admitted 10 dead Iraqis and 12 wounded in the skirmishes that began at dawn, updating an earlier toll.
		Ramadi and nearby Fallujah are the two main bastions of rebel fighters in the Sunni area.
		US troops in Ramadi are doubling their ranks to about 2,000 with the arrival of a new army battalion to join a marines battalion already based in the city.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200410/s1231683.htm (297 words)

	U.S. and Iraqi troops push into Ramadi - Africa & Middle East - International Herald Tribune
		RAMADI, Iraq The 120-millimeter mortar shell landed with a crash in the middle of the new American-Iraqi outpost on Monday, hurling foot-long shards of metal and puncturing the chest of a young American soldier.
		Ramadi, the capital of Anbar Province, has bedeviled American forces for months, making itself the toughest city in the most violent of Iraqi regions.
		This time, they have ringed Ramadi with thousands of American and Iraqi troops, and have begun to reclaim the city, not in one sudden attack, but neighborhood by neighborhood.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/06/27/africa/web.0627ramadi.php (1346 words)

	In Ramadi, U.S. tries a new tactic for Iraq - Africa & Middle East - International Herald Tribune
		RAMADI, Iraq The 122 millimeter mortar shell landed with a crash in the middle of the new U.S.-Iraqi outpost, hurling foot-long shards of metal and puncturing the chest of a young American soldier.
		Ramadi, the capital of Anbar Province, has bedeviled U.S. forces for months, making itself the toughest single city in the most violent of Iraqi regions.
		This time, they have ringed Ramadi with thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops, and have begun to reclaim the city, not in one sudden attack, but neighborhood by neighborhood.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/06/27/news/ramadi.php (877 words)

	Insurgents' Threats Keep Ramadi Residents From Votings (Site not responding. Last check: )
		RAMADI, Iraq — Security concerns, roadside bombs and a series of brief gunbattles kept most Ramadi citizens from participating in Sunday’s historic Iraqi elections.
		Ramadi’s 400,000 residents were subject of a harassment campaign by insurgents, who promised death to anyone who voted Sunday.
		The first Iraqis to vote in Ramadi were the security forces and election workers, who began casting their ballots just after the polls opened at 7 a.m.
	www.military.com /NewContent/0,13190,SS_013105_Voting,00.html (961 words)

	Iraqi Army 1st Brigade, 1st Division Arrives in Ramadi - DefendAmerica News Article
		Our mission is to save the innocent citizens of Ramadi from the fl hands of the insurgents that are shedding their blood,” said the 1st Brigade, 1st Division commander.
		The brigade is focused on establishing a stable and secure environment for the citizens of Ramadi, a former insurgent stronghold.
		Insurgents operating in the eastern Ramadi area are linked to the al Qaeda in Iraq cell in the Al Anbar Province, which is part of the Abu Musab al Zarqawi terrorist network.
	www.defendamerica.mil /articles/mar2006/a032806tj1.html (458 words)

	The Dignified Rant: Ramadi In
		I noted that we can't be brutal enough to subdue Ramadi and that Iraqis will have to shoulder the responsibility for this one.
		The strong points in Ramadi, cohabitated by U.S. and Iraqi troops, are designed to cut off the insurgents from supplies and reinforcements from the outside.
		In western Ramadi, however, insurgents have fired on Marines from the rooftop of a women and children's hospital so often that patients were moved to a wing with fewer exposed windows.
	thedignifiedrant.blogspot.com /2006/07/ramadi-in.html (769 words)

	Fallujah II, US Takes Aim at Ramadi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The image pieced together from interviews with tribal leaders and fleeing families in recent weeks is one of a desperate population of 400,000 people trapped in the crossfire between insurgents and U.S. forces.
		Ramadi has become a town where anti-American guerrillas operate openly and city bureaucrats are afraid to acknowledge their job titles for fear of being killed.
		Ramadi is at present cut off from the rest of Iraq.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2006/061106A.shtml (2388 words)

	Ramadi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During this period of time 1-124th Infantry was responsible for the most of Ramadi's AO (area of Operations), including the central area.
		As a result, the 2-28th BCT was soon reinforced further, with the 2-69th Armor, a battle-hardened 3rd Infantry Division unit, being sent to it from Baqubah.
		With the 2-69th gone, the 2-28th BCT was again reinforced to help damp the insurgent activity, this time by the 1-506th Infantry, a newly arrived unit of the 101st Airborne Division that was transferred to Ramadi fromBaghdad's Sadr City.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ramadi (1371 words)

	Gunmen take over Ramadi as bomb kills five marines \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		US troops recovered the remains and withdrew to their base outside the Arab Sunni stronghold, leaving masked gunmen to erect checkpoints and carry out what residents said was the latest of many executions.
		Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, became an insurgent citadel soon after Saddam Hussein's regime fell two years ago.
		Falluja, 40 miles east of Ramadi, has been largely quiet since an offensive last November pushed much of the civilian population as well as rebels out of the city.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1508573,00.html (910 words)

	SOS Ramadi
		Ramadi is the capital of the Anbar province and is situated about 100 km west of Baghdad, on the Euphrates.
		The Americans pretend that it is the ‘insurgents’, rather than the western foreign occupiers themselves along with their Iraqi collaborationists, that the local population needs to be liberated from.
		He writes: “Residents of Ramadi repeatedly assure me that were the US troops to leave Ramadi, order could be restored within a matter of days.
	www.brusselstribunal.org /SosRamadi.htm (11314 words)

	Return to Ramadi
		And while many of the enemy died, the advance notice of the attack plus the ability to escape across the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in small boats meant that most of the fighters killed were probably seeking martyrdom.
		And Ramadi has shorter supply lines to foreign terrorists, equipment, and cash from Syria and Jordan to the west.
		For this very reason, Ramadi is both a litmus test for the counterinsurgency effort in Iraq and a laboratory.
	www.weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/985qugel.asp (514 words)

	Wherever Godot is, he's not in Ramadi \| Needlenose
		The insurgents have assassinated 11 tribal leaders in the Ramadi area since the end of last year, when Sunni sheiks in the city began open cooperation with the U.S. military.
		In Ramadi, "Zarqawi is the one who is in control," the sheik said, speaking to a Washington Post special correspondent in Ramadi.
		Ramadi is an example of how that circle is proving unsquareable.
	www.needlenose.com /node/view/3003 (878 words)

	Gulf Region Division
		Two Ramadi leaders saw the benefits to their community, realized the current contractor needed assistance, and agreed to work together to make it happen.
		Wassom attended the meeting to discuss the start of an $8.4 million waste water treatment plant for Ramadi, as well as to bring bids for water treatment plants for five towns with populations of 2,500 to 6,000.
		Ramadi residents will be kept informed about the project’s long-term, positive environmental impact on the Euphrates River, as well as what this construction project means for local jobs and the economy.
	www.grd.usace.army.mil /news/releases/recon3091205.html (669 words)

	Iraqi Army recruiting held in Ramadi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ramadi is a very difficult and active city, and MOD has had a tough time enlisting IA recruits from this Area," said Marine Capt. Selden Hale, Recruiting Advisor under the Joint Headquarters Transition Team for Multi-National Security Transition Command Iraq (MNSTC-I).
		It’s a good day and a great start for Ramadi, this is a true indicator of the progress being made over the past few months," said the Amarillo, Texas, resident.
		Providing security, creating jobs and helping to build the local economy is how Ramadi will benefit from the IA. Once the 1st and 7th Divisions fill their allocated personnel fill, future recruits will be placed with other Divisions," said Marine Maj. Timothy Burton.
	www.blackanthem.com /TheAllies/military_2006032802.html (536 words)

	ABC News: U.S., Iraqi Forces Fight Ramadi Insurgents
		RAMADI, Iraq Apr 22, 2006 (AP)— U.S. and Iraqi forces fought an hour-long gunbattle with insurgents Saturday in this city west of the Iraqi capital, firing automatic weapons from rooftops at small guerrilla teams maneuvering around them in alleyways and an abandoned fairground.
		U.S. commanders said four insurgents were killed and two Iraqi soldiers wounded in the gunfight in eastern Ramadi one shot through the calf and evacuated by U.S. medics, another with a minor facial wound.
		Ramadi is the capital of Anbar province, a center of the Sunni Arab-dominated insurgency that includes cities such as Fallujah and Qaim.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1877247 (417 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - The Battle of Ramadi, 1917
		His first target was the flood-control station at Ramadi, situated on the right bank of the River Euphrates and garrisoned by a large Turkish force.
		They opened the attack on 28 September on the east bank of the Euphrates against Ramadi's garrison of 4,000 (reinforced from 1,000 during the earlier summer attack).
		Nevertheless, having comfortably succeeded in capturing Ramadi Maude next turned his attention to capturing Tikrit in early November.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/ramadi.htm (303 words)

	Ramadi: Fallujah Redux - Residents Fleeing
		Fearful residents are now pouring out of Ramadi after the US military has been assaulting the city for months with tactics like cutting water, electricity and medical aid, imposing curfews, and attacking by means of snipers and random air strikes.
		The fact that the 1,500 US troops who were recently brought into Iraq, specifically to Ramadi, went unreported by most, if not all, corporate media outlets didn't come as a surprise to the residents of Ramadi, however, as street battles between troops and resistance fighters have been raging for months now.
		The media flout on Ramadi is already rivaling the flout on the draconian measures employed by the military during the November 2004 siege of Fallujah, if not surpassing it.
	www.rense.com /general72/rama.htm (1091 words)

	American Troops Prepare for Assault on Sunni Stronghold
		American and Iraqi government forces have surrounded the city of Ramadi in preparation for an expected full-scale attack on the city, which has in effect slipped into the hands of insurgents.
		Maj-Gen Natonski described the militants in Ramadi as "intent on preventing a peaceful [post-election] transition of power between the interim Iraqi government and the Iraqi transitional government".
		Ramadi, with 300,000 residents, has long been a focal point for the Iraqi resistance.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines05/0221-22.htm (675 words)

	Michael Fumento: The New Band of Brothers
		Terrorist-infested Ramadi in the wild west of Iraq is for U.S. troops the meanest place in the country, "the graveyard of the Americans" as graffiti around town boast.
		I asked military public affairs for 15 days in Ramadi, was told the request had been granted, flew to Baghdad, and only then was informed that I would instead be sent to Fallujah, with a few days in Ramadi to come later.
		Rarely did you ever hear Ramadi mentioned, yet I knew the danger that was there." A third: "It's hard to talk [to my husband] on the phone and not be able to know what he is doing or what all is happening.
	www.fumento.com /military/ramadi.html (7204 words)

	IRAQ: Residents Struggle to Survive, In and Out of Ramadi
		RAMADI, Jun 19 (IPS) - As the threat of a giant U.S. military operation in Ramadi lingers and sporadic clashes plague the city daily, residents struggle to cope, both inside and outside the sealed city.
		A week spent in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province west of Baghdad, reveals that residents are suffering from lack of water, electricity, cooking gas and medical supplies for the hospitals.
		However, he added that "Most of the families are avoiding approaching Fallujah due to the complicated procedure enforced by MNF to enter the city." Mascia said that the number of families recorded by ICS is almost certainly low, since his group only logs families who get direct relief aid from their workers.
	www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=33680 (1177 words)

	Ramadi
		City in central Iraq with 380,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate), capital of the al-Anbar governorate, on the Euphrates river, northwest of Lake Habbaniyah.
		Ramadi was established for political reasons in the 19th century, but proved vital as a stop-over on the caravan routes between Baghdad and the cities of the Levant.
		1869: Ramadi is founded by the local rulers of the Ottoman Empire, in order to get control over the nomadic Dulaym tribes of the region.
	i-cias.com /e.o/ramadi.htm (114 words)

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