Celebrations break out in Fallujah as US marines enter rebel Iraqi city

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040510/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_fallujah_convoy&cid=1514&ncid=1480

FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFP) - Celebratory gunfire ripped the Sunni Muslim bastion of Fallujah as US marines in a dozen armoured vehicles entered the war-battered city on a symbolic tour and met with local leaders.


Iraqi police and masked insurgents shot off rounds and people flooded the streets, waving Iraqi national flags and honking their car horns in jubilation over what they mistakenly believed was a deal between the marines and the city's leaders to scale back the US presence in Fallujah.


Locals said they believed if the city was quiet during the convoy tour marines would leave Fallujah for good.


But the marines immediately crushed the notion and said they would keep their positions around the edges of the city, rocked by the worst fighting in Iraq (news - web sites) since the US invasion last spring.


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[saigon68]

1. Did they Wave BREMER'S Flag? Where qare the Flowers???

[webtrainer]

2. Aren't the Fallujah'ns expecting the Marines . . .

to retreat completely? That's what I read . . . I think they're going to be severly disappointed.

[Jacobin]

3. sigh

We never learn a goddamned thing, do we.

[soleft]

4. Posted earlier, please discuss here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=544793