(11 Nov 2004)
1. Various of US marines moving through streets
2. US tank in street AUDIO of tank firing
3. Soldier firing from top of tank
4. US marines driving through streets
5. Marines carrying box of spent bullets
6. Various of tank firing at mosque AUDIO of firing
7. Various of mosque ruins
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Staff Sergeant Sam Mortimer, Section Leader:
"When they're using the mosque to do command and control for insurgents and kill my fellow marines and soldiers and airmen that are out here, no holds barred. The gloves are off."
9. Pull out from damaged building
10. Two bodies lying in street, US marines around
11. US marines running through streets
12. Marine next to military vehicle
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sergeant Matthew Henderson, Squad Leader:
"It brings up a lot of angry feelings about what they did to those contractors."
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sergeant Matthew Henderson, Squad Leader:
"This thing will become a thing of the past, something we'll never forget, but a thing of the past."
15. Various of bridge where bodies of four US security contractors were hung after they were beaten to death last March
16. US Marines running through streets
STORYLINE:
American forces cornered insurgents on Wednesday in a narrow strip of Fallujah after a swift advance that seized control of 70 percent of the militant stronghold.
US Marines swept through the streets of the city as part of a massive ground assault to reclaim the insurgent stronghold.
The streets of the city were empty, but the Marines found a cache of home made rocket tubes, RPG launchers and grenades.
They also destroyed a mosque, saying it was being used by insurgents to carry out "command and control" activities.
When they arrived at the bridge where the bodies of the four US security contractors were hung after they were beaten to death and burnt by a Fallujah mob last March, the Marines said it brought back "angry feelings".
American warplanes have relentlessly pounded Fallujah over the past three days, pouring cannon fire, rockets and bombs onto the rebel city, sometimes just blocks ahead of advancing US troops.
At least 71 militants had been killed by the beginning of the third day of intense urban combat, the US military said.
It's likely that most insurgents fled the city before the assault began so they could fight elsewhere, officers said on Wednesday.
Most of Fallujah's 200-thousand to 300-thousand residents are also believed to have fled the city before the US assault.
Civilian casualties in the attack are not known, though US commanders say they believe they are low.
The speed of the US drive in Fallujah may indicate that most Sunni fighters and their leaders abandoned the city before the offensive and moved elsewhere to carry on the fight, officers said.
The leader of the group behind the beheadings of several western hostages, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is believed to have fled the city.
Many of the remaining fighters have asked to surrender, a government spokesman told reporters. He said the Iraqi authorities "will extend amnesty" to those who have not committed major crimes.
Iraqi and US commanders had been warning for weeks that they invade Fallujah to re-establish government control.
Fallujah's defences have crumbled faster than US commanders expected,
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