![]() ![]() Iraq's 36th Commando Battalion was placed in charge of Fallujah General Hospital which was kept open to provide medical services to injured civilians. However, according to MNF-I the hospital was being used as a center for enemy propaganda to inflate the number of civilian casualties. In the first stage of their assault, a Marine unit and other troops seized two strategic bridges and a hospital situated on a peninsula formed by the Euphrates River leading to an area that was a possible fall back zone for insurgents driven out of central Fallujah. Casey Jr., Jordanian, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of the insurgent faction in Fallujah, is believed to have fled the city as of 9 November 2004. However, according to the head of CENTCOM, Gen. officials estimated that 2,000-3,000 hardcore insurgents were entrenched in the city at the time the assault began. military officials believed that 70-90 percent of the city's population had fled. Fallujah had a population of approximately 300,000 civilians but U.S. The assault on the city was an attempt to regain control of the city from insurgents in preparation for national elections scheduled for January 2005. Casey Jr., the top American commander in Iraq, acknowledged that an unknown number of the Iraqis did not show up. commanders expected about 2,000 members of Iraqi Security Forces to fight with American troops but Gen. A number of trained Iraqi forces also particpated in the operation. This followed weeks of aerial bombardment by U.S. It was later renamed Operation al-Fajr (Arabic for Dawn) by the Iraqi Defence Minister.Īn estimated 10,000-15,000 American troops launched Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah on November 8, 2004. This operation was initially named Phantom Fury by DoD. ![]()
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