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Byline: Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Marine's view
Beneath the official line that things are improving in the Al Anbar province, doubts on the future of Fallujah and Ramadi are being expressed privately by some Marines.
"We killed close to 20 enemy, detained 14, and a lot of RPGs and machine guns," a Marine told us this week. "They actually fortified and used a building called the Coalition of Iraqi Unity for a fighting position. Not surprised. Things really have not gotten better. Firefights everyday, mortar and RPG attacks everyday. But the Government Center is still functioning, still defended, and the governor is still alive, so we are doing our job. Still hoping to kill Zarqawi someday."
That was a reference to international murderer Abu Musab Zarqawi, who uses Fallujah as a base, but who also moves around Iraq establishing cells of suicide bombers to kill Iraqis.
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