Eyeballing the Falujah Kill Zone

28 November 2004

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Associated Press photos.

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Iraqi Red Crescent worker looks at deserted and devastated street in Fallujah, Iraq, Friday Nov. 26 2004. U.S. and Iraqi forces continue to fight sporadic gunbattles with rebel holdouts as they clear Fallujah of weapons. But as the battle calms, U.S. forces are reflecting on the fight, their often-unseen foes and the future of a city which lies in ruins. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Gary Qualls, father of Marine Lance Cpl. Louis Qualls who died in Fallujah, embraces the flag from his son's coffin as his son David, left, looks at him during burial services for Lance Cpl. Qualls at the Dallas-Fort Worth Memorial Cemetary in Dallas, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2004. Nearly 70 U.S. soldiers and Marines have died in combat in the Iraqi province that includes Fallujah since Nov. 8, when American-led forces began an offensive to subdue that insurgent stronghold. Ten of those killed have been Texans, a casualty rate that far surpasses the state's share of military deaths in the Iraq War as a whole. (AP Photo/Temple Daily Telegram, Dana Centola)

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US soldiers patrol in Fallujah, Iraq, Friday Nov. 26 2004. In Fallujah, insurgents ambushed U.S. troops as they entered a home during house-to-house searches in the former rebel bastion, killing two Marines and wounding three others, the U.S. military said Friday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Marine Lance Cpl. Jeffery Scott Holmes, of Hartford, Vt., is shown in this undated family photo was was killed in Fallujah on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 2004. Lt. Gen. John F. Sattler, commanding general of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said the U.S. troops were ambushed by insurgents from inside a house as they entered it. Holmes, a 2003 Hartford High School graduate, was one of those two, Patti and Scott Holmes said the Marines told them. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Holmes family via the Valley News)

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A deserted street in Fallujah affected by recent fighting Friday Nov. 26 2004. U.S. troops have continued clearing operations in Fallujah, which came under a massive week-long U.S.-led assault that began Nov. 8. Lt. Gen. John F. Sattler, commanding general of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said about 50 percent of the houses in the city have already been cleared. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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In this photo released by the Iraqi government, chemicals are seen after Iraqi troops searching suspected terrorist hideouts in Fallujah discovered a laboratory with manuals manufacturing explosives and toxins including anthrax, Iraq's national security adviser Qassem Dawoud said Thursday, Nov. 25, 2004.(AP Photo/Iraqi Gorvernment)

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In this photo released by the Iraqi government, sacks of chemicals are seen after Iraqi troops searching suspected terrorist hideouts in Fallujah discovered a laboratory with manuals manufacturing explosives and toxins including anthrax, Iraq's national security adviser Qassem Dawoud said Thursday, Nov. 25, 2004.(AP Photo/Iraqi Gorvernment)

Iraqi Red Crescent worker looks at deserted and devastated street in Fallujah, Iraq, Friday Nov. 26 2004. U.S. and Iraqi forces continue to fight sporadic gunbattles with rebel holdouts as they clear Fallujah of weapons. But as the battle calms, U.S. forces are reflecting on the fight, their often-unseen foes and the future of a city which lies in ruins. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)	Gary Qualls, father of Marine Lance Cpl. Louis Qualls who died in Fallujah, embraces the flag from his son's coffin as his son David, left, looks at him during burial services for Lance Cpl. Qualls at the Dallas-Fort Worth Memorial Cemetary in Dallas, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2004. Nearly 70 U.S. soldiers and Marines have died in combat in the Iraqi province that includes Fallujah since Nov. 8, when American-led forces began an offensive to subdue that insurgent stronghold. Ten of those killed have been Texans, a casualty rate that far surpasses the state's share of military deaths in the Iraq War as a whole. (AP Photo/Temple Daily Telegram, Dana Centola)
US soldiers patrol in Fallujah, Iraq, Friday Nov. 26 2004. In Fallujah, insurgents ambushed U.S. troops as they entered a home during house-to-house searches in the former rebel bastion, killing two Marines and wounding three others, the U.S. military said Friday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)	Marine Lance Cpl. Jeffery Scott Holmes, of Hartford, Vt., is shown in this undated family photo was was killed in Fallujah on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 2004. Lt. Gen. John F. Sattler, commanding general of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said the U.S. troops were ambushed by insurgents from inside a house as they entered it. Holmes, a 2003 Hartford High School graduate, was one of those two, Patti and Scott Holmes said the Marines told them. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Holmes family via the Valley News)
A deserted street in Fallujah affected by recent fighting Friday Nov. 26 2004. U.S. troops have continued clearing operations in Fallujah, which came under a massive week-long U.S.-led assault that began Nov. 8. Lt. Gen. John F. Sattler, commanding general of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said about 50 percent of the houses in the city have already been cleared. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)	In this photo released by the Iraqi government, chemicals are seen after Iraqi troops searching suspected terrorist hideouts in Fallujah discovered a laboratory with manuals manufacturing explosives and toxins including anthrax, Iraq's national security adviser Qassem Dawoud said Thursday, Nov. 25, 2004.(AP Photo/Iraqi Gorvernment)
In this photo released by the Iraqi government, sacks of chemicals are seen after Iraqi troops searching suspected terrorist hideouts in Fallujah discovered a laboratory with manuals manufacturing explosives and toxins including anthrax, Iraq's national security adviser Qassem Dawoud said Thursday, Nov. 25, 2004.(AP Photo/Iraqi Gorvernment)