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Emergency rule declared
throughout most of Iraq
U.S. commanders warn troops to expect most brutal
urban fighting since Vietnam War; attacks intensify
BY JIM KRANE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq — U.S.
forces stormed into western districts
of Fallujah early Monday, seizing the
main city hospital and securing two
key bridges over the Euphrates river
in what appeared to be the first stage
of the long-expected assault on the
insurgent stronghold.
An AC-130 gunship raked the city
with 40 mm cannon fire as explo
sions from U.S. artillery lit up the
night sky. Intermittent artillery fire
blasted southern neighborhoods of
Fallujah, and orange fireballs from
high explosive airbursts could be
seen above the rooftops.
U.S. officials said the toughest fight
was yet to come — when American
forces enter the main part of the city
on the east bank of the river and the
Jolan neighborhood where insurgent
defenses are believed to be strongest.
The initial attacks on Fallujah be
gan just hours after the Iraqi govern
ment declared 60 days of emergency
rule throughout most of the country
as militants dramatically escalated at
tacks, killing at least 30 people, in
cluding two Americans.
Dr. Salih al-Issawi, the head of Fal
lujah’s main hospital, said he had
asked U.S. officers to allow doctors
and ambulances go inside the main
part of the city to help the wounded
but they refused. There was no con
firmation from the Americans.
“The American troops’ take over
the hospital was not right because
they thought that they would halt
medical assistance to the resistance,”
he said. “But they did not realize that
the hospital does not belong to any
body, especially the resistance.”
The action began after sundown on
the outskirts of the city, which has
been sealed off by U.S. and Iraqi
forces, and the skyline was lit up with
huge flashes of light.
Flares were dropped to illuminate
targets, and defenders fought back
with heavy machine gunfire. Flaming
red tracer rounds streaked through the
night sky from guerrilla positions in
side the city, 40 miles west of Baghdad.
Before the assault began, U.S.
commanders warned troops to ex
Iraq declares state of emergency
Haditha
Fallujah t &
Baghdad 2
► Two British x_
soldiers were
seriously injured
by a suicide car
bomber southwest
of the capital
KUWAIT
The Iraqi government declared a 60-day
throughout the country except for Kurdish
The order comes as U.S. troops
prepare for an all-out
assault on the guerrilla
sanctuary of
Fallujah.
► Rebels stormed
three police stations
killing 22 policemen,
some of which were
executed
SYRIA
JOR.
► U.S. troops
capture a small section'
of rebel-held territory,
including an insurgent medical'
aid station
► U.S. command sealed off city;
all roads into Fallujah and
neighboring Ramadi are closed
state of emergency
ruled areas in the north.
► Attacks on U.S.
convoys kill two
American soldiers
and wound five
► Gunmen
assassins- 'd
Diyala
governor’s aid
and two provincial
council members
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SAUDI ARABIA
SOURCE: ESRI
AP
pect the most brutal urban fighting
since the Vietnam War.
Underscoring the instability else
where in Iraq, several heavy explo
sions thundered through the capital
even as government spokesman Thair
Hassan al-Naqeeb was announcing
the state of emergency, which applies
throughout the country except for Kur
dish-ruled areas in the north.
Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad
Allawi said the state of emergency is
a “very powerful message that we are
serious” about reining in insurgents
before elections set for late January.
“We want to secure the country so
elections can be done in a peaceful
way and the Iraqi people can partici
pate in the elections freely, without the
intimidation by terrorists and by forces
who are trying to wreck the political
process in Iraq,” he told reporters.
Insurgents, meanwhile, waged a
second day of attacks across the
restive Sunni 'Wangle north and west
of Baghdad, storming police stations,
assassinating government officials and
setting off deadly car bombs. About 60
people have been killed and 75 in
jured in the two days of attacks.
At dawn, armed rebels stormed
three police stations in the towns of
Haditha and Haqlaniyah, 140 miles
northwest of Baghdad, killing 22 po
licemen. Some were lined up and
shot execution-style, according to po
lice and hospital officials.
Three attacks on U.S. convoys in
and around Baghdad killed two
American soldiers and wounded five
others, the military said.
A car bomb also exploded near the
Baghdad home of Iraq’s finance min
ister, Adil Abdel-Mahdi, a leading
Shiite politician. Abdel-Mahdi and
his family were not home at the time.
In a Web posting, the al-Qaida af
filiate group of Abu Musab al-Zar
qawi, believed headquartered in Fal
lujah, claimed responsibility for the
attacks on Haditha and Haqlaniyah.
“In the dawn of this blessed day,
the lions of al-Qaida in Iraq faced up
to a group of apostates in the proud
city of Haditha,” said the statement,
which could not be authenticated.
“The lions stormed the city’s police
directorate and killed everyone
there...With this operation, the city
has been completely liberated. The li
ons have been wandering in the city
until late today.”
Associated Press correspondents Tini
Tran, Mariam Fam, Katarina Krato
vac and Maggie Michael in Baghdad
contributed to this report
Northern Japan experiences
powerful aftershock Monday
Magnitude-5.8 earthquake strikes Japan; injuries
not immediately reported, no danger of tidal wave
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOKYO — A magnitude-5.8 earth
quake Monday rocked northern
Japan near where the deadliest earth
quake to strike the country in years
hit last month. No injuries were im
mediately reported.
The quake, which hit at 11:16
a.m., appeared to be an aftershock
to last month’s magnitude-6.8 tem
blor. It was centered close to the
earth’s surface in the Chuetsu area
of Niigata prefecture, the Meteoro
logical Agency said.
The quake posed no danger of a
seismic tidal wave, the agency said.
Takeshi Minagawa, an official at
the town hall in Nakanoshima,
where the quake was the strongest,
said he felt 10 seconds of vertical
shaking.
He said this aftershock felt stronger
than others, but there were no reports
of damage and nothing fell off his of
fice shelves or tables.
The town closed off several roads
to confirm they were safe to use after
the quake, Minagawa said.
The Oct. 23 quake that struck Niiga
ta and aftershocks in the days that fol
lowed killed 39 people and injured
more than 2,000. It was the deadliest
quake to hit Japan since 1995, when a
magnitude-7.2 quake killed 6,000 peo
ple in the western city of Kobe.
Thousands of people in the area
are still living in temporary public
shelters or are camped out in tents
and cars because their homes are
severely damaged. Many also fear
aftershocks could set off landslides
or cause already-damaged buildings
to collapse.
Located along the Pacific “Ring of
Fire,” Japan is one of the world’s
most earthquake-prone countries. A
magnitude 5 earthquake can cause
damage to homes if it occurs in a res
idential area.