* Who, besides Kofi Annan, can doub...

* Who, besides Kofi Annan, can doubt that Fallujah was a terrorist safe haven? In the last month U forces have construct some 600 Improvised Explosive Devices--i.e., road-side bombs--there, compared with roughly 225 around the quiescence of the country. They have set up 91 major weapons caches there (basically each mosque has one), compared with 130 over the rest of the abiding habitation In military terms, the battle was a succes The insurgents strike one as beinged to expect us to issue from the south, but instead the Marines poured in from the north. We probably killed up to 2000 insurgents and captured another 1000 Politically, things are hanging together reasonably well. The Iraqi Islamic party has made heartys about quitting the government, on the other hand its officials are still there. Sheik Ghazi Yawar, the president of Iraq, from united of the largest Sunni tribes, has stayed in the direction The Sunni Ulema Council has announced it will boycott the elections, yet this is no loss--the cluster represents Sunni radicalism. The retaking of Fallujah may be no other than one step toward securing the nation prior to the January elections, nevertheless it is an important one

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