World News 15-10-2004 US pounds Rebel Fallujah who: The Pentagon what: Says US ground and air forces are attacking strategic rebel targets where: Fallujah, Iraq when: Today snippet: "US forces have intensified their attacks on the rebel-held city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad," reports Sky News this morning. "The US says the ground and air attacks are part of an ongoing operation and are not the start of moves to recapture the city." "Senior Pentagon officials said they were exploiting intelligence and what they described as `targets of opportunity`," says the BBC. These include safe houses apparently used by followers of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The attacks come after yesterday`s double suicide bombing in the "safe" Green Zone in the ventre of Baghdad, which killed at least ten people and has been blamed on al-Zarqawi. "The bombs struck a market and one of the zone`s cafeterias, killing at least four US civilians," says Charles Clover, Baghdad correspondent to The Financial Times. "According to the US military, 20 people were injured. Associated Press said the dead Americans were all employees of DynCorp, the US private security firm." "The suicide attacks in the Green Zone are viewed as a huge propaganda boost for the insurgents," comments The Independent`s Kim Sengupta. "It is the most protected 10sq km in the country and home to the US and British embassies and Iraq`s interim government." [... more]

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