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Sunday, November 7, 2004 (Fallujah):
US warplanes pounded Fallujah on Saturday, as more than
10,000 American soldiers and Marines massed for an expected
assault on the militant stronghold.
Against the backdrop of night, explosions could be heard and
sparks could be seen in the distance. No further details were
available.
US intelligence estimates there are about 3,000 militants dug
in behind defences and booby traps in Fallujah, a city of
about 300-thousand located 65 kilometres west of Baghdad.
Fallujah has become the symbol of Iraqi resistance, and US
commanders there have been coordinating plans either to fight
their way into the city or isolate it from the rest of Iraq's
Sunni Muslim heartland.
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(With PTI inputs)
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