antiwar: BLACK smoke towered over besieged Falluj

antiwar: BLACK smoke towered over besieged Falluj: "BLACK smoke towered over besieged Fallujah yesterday after US and Iraqi forces took control of a hospital and two bridges before a major assault on the rebel stronghold. Warplanes pounded the city and gunfire echoed. An AC-130 plane unleashed cannons and machineguns from above. Explosions from the artillery fire boomed out almost every minute.


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With warplanes pounding the city, U.S. Marines fought their way into the western outskirts of Fallujah on Monday, seizing a hospital and two bridges over the Euphrates River in the first stage of a major assault on the insurgent stronghold. The skies above Fallujah burned red last night as artillery, war planes and tanks pounded the Iraqi rebel bastion with a barrage of firepower at the start of an operation to retake the city."