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through several hundred homes. Half a dozen men were detained and caches of AK47s and other weapons were found Thursday.
Coalition death toll nears 50
as uprising reaches fifth day
Marines fight to regain
control of Fallujah while
Spanish troops battle an
insurgent militia in Najaf
By Matthew Schofield
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. Marines
and Iraqi insurgents fought pitched
battles TTiursday for control of Fallu
jah, and Spanish troops reportedly
battled a Muslim militia group in Na
jaf as the anti-coalition uprising
stretched into its fifth day.
There were signs that the uprising
had slowed. For the first time since
Sunday, no new cities reported com
bat. But Iraqi insurgents remained in
control of three southern towns, and
the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq
said he expected resistance to contin
ue "for sometime."
The death toll for coalition soldiers
since the uprising began Sunday
neared 50, making the week one of
the bloodiest since U.S. forces entered
Iraq 13 months ago. A Marine
spokesman said four Marines had
been killed in Fallujah Thursday and
another had been killed in Ramadi.
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Hundreds of Iraqis have died.
"We're inside Fallujah, not every
where, but inside," Maj. T.V. Johnson
told a Knight Ridder reporter at Camp
Fallujah, a Marine encampment
about five miles from the city. "We're
digging in, hoping to entice the ene
my to attack our positions, and hop
ing that the citizens will start pointing
out the bad guys to us."
The fighting continued into the ear
ly hours Friday. Intense artillery fire
could be heard in the city from Camp
Fallujah, and helicopters were a con
stant presence in the sky.
In Najaf, one of two cities now un
der control of Mahdi Army militia
men loyal to Shiite Muslim cleric
Muqtada al-Sadr, Arabic television re
porters said that seven Spanish sol
diers had been killed and that black
clad fighters were digging in positions
in the center of the city, which is
home to one of Iraq's most holy Shi
ite shrines.
Meanwhile, in Washington, two
U.S. officials said that John D. Negro
ponte, current U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations, is expected to be the
first American ambassador to post
Saddam Iraq.
At least 13 foreign workers were
kidnapped by Islamic extremists, in
cluding three Japanese whose captors
threatened to bum them alive unless
Japan agreed to withdraw its contin
gent of soldiers from Iraq. -
Inside the Green Zone, the cor
doned-off neighborhood where the
Coalition Provisional Authority
maintains its headquarters, explosives
experts detonated a bomb discovered
in a parking lot next door to the con
vention center where U.S. officials
hold their briefings.
Sadr City, a poor suburb of 3 mil
lion, mostly Shiites, was quiet for the
first time since the weekend.
Overnight, American forces tried to
destroy al-Sadr's office there, but his
followers rebuilt it Thursday morning.
In Kuwait, the 1st Brigade, 1st Ar
mored Division, on its way home to
Fort Riley, Kan., was ordered to
prepare a troop strength report amid
rumors that the soldiers might be re
turned to Iraq. A Fort Riley spokes
woman said Thursday that the return
of the 700 to 800 troops was still
planned for this weekend.
Coalition authorities were also
fighting a public relations battle, as
anger grew over civilian casualties and 4
claims that the United States was
blocking humanitarian assistance to
townspeople trapped by the fighting
in Fallujah.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of
Baghdad residents conducted food
and blood drives for the wounded in
Fallujah. Traditionally distmstful of
each other, Sunni and Shiite Muslims g
coordinated efforts, loading trucks^ '
with tons of rice, sugar, medical sup
plies and blood that had been piled in
the parking lots of mosques through
out the city.
At the Um al Quraa mosque, where
the white sacks of food and supplies
were piled 10 feet high in the early
morning, Nasar Abdul Kareemm, 42,
said he had been fired upon while ap
proaching with a convoy. He said a
friend was shot in the leg.
"If the Americans will not let us
bring food and medicines to the peo
ple, I can guarantee they will lose this
war," he said.
Some trucks did get through. Amer
Sadek, 29, was driving one.
"I went down in a convoy of five
trucks, but only two were let into the
city," he said. "What I saw was beyond
description. Entire neighborhoods
have been reduced to battlefields. The
people crowded the truck, crying and
begging us to take them away from all
the death, all the blood. But the
Marines told us, Two go in, two come
out.' So we had to leave them behind."
(c) 2004, Knight Ridder/fribune
Information Services. Contributing
to this report were Patrick Peterson
of the Biloxi, Miss., Sun Herald,
at Camp Fallujah; David Swanson
of the Philadelphia Inquirer
in Ramadi; Carol Rosenberg
in Baghdad and Lee Hill Kavanaugh
of The Kansas City Star in Kuwait.
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