Word: falluja
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...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...