As U.S. Forces Pound Fallujah, Fighting Rages on City's Edge

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39798-2004Oct17.html?referrer=email

By Steve Fainaru
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 18, 2004; Page A14

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BAGHDAD, Oct. 17 -- U.S. warplanes and tanks pummeled Fallujah on Sunday as intense battles raged on the outskirts of the insurgent-held city.

Separately, a car bomb exploded late Sunday in Baghdad's Jadriya district, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said, according to the Associated Press. The ministry said the blast was aimed at an Iraqi police patrol and caused an undetermined number of casualties. Al-Arabiya television reported, however, that the explosion targeted a cafe, killing seven people, including some police officers, and wounding about 20.

In Sadr City, a sprawling Shiite slum in the capital, three Iraqis were killed when a mortar round hit a soccer stadium where a weapons buyback program was underway. The attack occurred minutes before the interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, was scheduled to arrive.


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Witnesses reported that U.S. forces fired on a vehicle carrying a family fleeing the fighting, killing all five passengers. No casualty figures were provided by the U.S. military. A doctor at the Fallujah hospital said three Iraqis were killed in the fighting.
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Uh oh, looks like Allawi had a close one.