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– Episode 1: D-Day: Fallujah (UPC: 733961741353), a 2006 A&E History Channel Special detailing various gun battles that occurred during the Second Battle of Fallujah. The Road to Fallujah, a 2009 documentary following the story of Mark Manning, the only westerner to live among the residents of Fallujah following the November 2004 battle.
First Fights in Fallujah: Marines During Operation Vigilant Resolve, in Iraq, April 2004. Philadelphia: Casemate. ISBN 9781636243184. No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah, by Bing West (2005) (ISBN 978-0-553-80402-7) Blood Stripes: The Grunt's View of the War in Iraq, by David J. Danelo (2007) (ISBN 978-0-8117-3393-9)
The battle was halted mid-way for political reasons, an outcome that commentators have described as insurgent victory. [3] [4] [5] Seven months later, in November 2004, a second attempt to capture the city, the Second Battle of Fallujah, proved successful. Intelligence reports concluded that the attack was planned by Ahmad Hashim Abd al-Isawi.
Fallujah's real boss: Omar the electrician - by Hannah Allam, Knight Ridder (22 November 2004) Telling the Fallujah Story to the World - Military.com (20 November 2004) Fallujah yields up weapons, videos – The Christian Science Monitor (19 November 2004) Letter from Fallujah to Kofi Annan signed by Al-Fallujah Shura Council, a council of ...
The 2004 Iraq spring fighting was a series of operational offensives and various major engagements during the Iraq War.It was a turning point in the war; the spring fighting marked the entrance into the conflict of militias and religiously based (Shi'a and Sunni) militant Iraqi groups, such as the Shi'a Mahdi Army.
During combat operations in Iraq from June 2004-January 2005, 1st Battalion 8th Marines (Reinforced) suffered 21 Marines killed in action (KIA) and nearly 150 Marines wounded in action (WIA) with 17 KIA's and 102 WIA's coming in three weeks in Fallujah in November 2004. 1/8 conducted a relief in place with their sister battalion 3/8 and ...
8 November 2004: 8 November 2004: Fallujah: Counterinsurgency: The elimination of Fallujah as a terrorist safe haven Battle of Mosul: 10 November 2004: 16 November 2004: Mosul: Battle: Was a battle fought during the Iraq War in 2004 for the capital of the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq that occurred concurrently to fighting in Fallujah.
TF 6-26 conducted missions in Fallujah before and during the First Battle of Fallujah. [33] On 19 August 2004, TF 6-26 operators and an Iraqi special forces unit, supported by U.S. Marines from Detachment One as part of Task Unit Raider carried out a raid on "Objective Resistor", the target being a former regime official running a large anti ...