Instability in Fallujah keeping Marines busy

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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0115iraq-fallujah15.html

Tony Perry
Los Angeles Times
Jan. 15, 2005 12:00 AM

FALLUJAH, Iraq - The question was direct. So too was the answer.

"Where's your biggest threat area?" asked Marine Maj. Phillip Zeman.

"Anywhere, everywhere, sir," answered Cpl. Phil Shy as their Humvee sped through what is left of Fallujah's commercial district Friday.

Two months after Marines wrested control of the Sunni Triangle city from the insurgents in a weeklong battle, some of the war-weary units involved in the fight are close to going home. But the U.S. task here is far from over.

This restive city will remain an American responsibility until Iraqi security forces are strong enough to take over the tasks of patrolling the rubble-strewn streets and keeping insurgents from reasserting themselves.

No one is predicting that day will come soon.

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[Divernan]

1. "Marines wrested control" of Fallujah? Not by any rational definition.

Not when the "biggest threat area" is described as anywhere, everywhere in the city.

[leesa]

3. Exactly. What's wrong with these idiotic "reporters" Do they even read

the foolish nonsense they write?

[mediaman007]

2. I thought we were going to rebuild that place!

I guess we haven't won yet, or the military would be bringing in trucks full of reporters to show the progress.

Iraq is quicksand. Most of us knew it. I guess that is because we read and think for ourselves.