Word: falluja
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...recent Sunni-Shiite common front has demonstrated that the U.S. military presence in Iraq just isn’t cutting it, especially when the Americans can’t keep effective control of major cities such as Falluja and Ramadi. No longer are occupational troops only forced to quell the small-time operations of Sunni extremists, whose attacks—though demoralizing—were less destructive and more infrequent before the recent assistance of Shiite militia. Rather, the current alliance has resulted in increasing violence and a loss of control in important cities, while continuing to refute President Bush?...
...attacks on America's troops are continuing. One is killed in a Baghdad ambush. Another is shot while buying something from a street vender elsewhere in the capital. Then there's the mess over in Falluja, an hour's drive to the west. You'd think that the country is rising up against the occupation. But, despite the headlines, there's still a good deal of support for the U.S. forces among Iraqis, or so I found traveling around the country speaking to leaders and, mainly, to ordinary folks...
...Tikrit is the northern point of a triangle of hostility to the U.S. presence that extends south to the cities of Falluja and Ramadi to the west of Baghdad and then into the outer fringes of the capital itself. Somewhere within this triangle, many suspect, Saddam and his sons are hiding - probably split up, protected by a small group of bodyguards and a lot of money...