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US forces start bombing Fallujah terrorists
Falluja - US forces have stepped up pressure on suspected rebel targets in Falluja late on Wednesday, using AC-130 aircraft and tanks to strike eastern and north-western areas of the city, witnesses said. The big push has begun?The AC-130s, cargo aircraft equipped with cannon and machineguns, were in action over the city for at least half an hour, coinciding with continuous shelling by tanks in the east of the city, they said. The bombardment was the heaviest inflicted on the city for several weeks, witnesses said. Go Marines!! The US military is poised for an offensive on Falluja, some 50 km west of Baghdad, to flush out Islamic militants and Saddam Hussein loyalists it says are there. Earlier on Wednesday, attacks by US warplanes sent up plumes of black smoke from the eastern edge of the rebel-held city, witnesses said. Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-11-04 |
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