Iraqi Civilians Flee Falluja as Truce Takes Hold

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Fifteen food trucks rolled into the town with banners proclaiming that they were a gift to Falluja from the Baghdad slum district of Sadr City, a stronghold for a radical cleric who launched an anti-U.S. uprising across Iraq (news - web sites) a week ago.

In Baghdad, witnesses said U.S. troops used tanks to smash their way into the compound of a Sunni mosque and Koranic school in a night raid on the Adhamiya district, where teenage gunmen fought running street battles with the Americans on Saturday.

"They (U.S. soldiers) came in from this door, 20 or more of them," resident Falah Fadil Mahmud told Reuters.
"They used knives to rip open the bags full of beans and flour, and kicked over oil cans. They took lots of water and boxes of milk for the children." The goods had been collected to help Falluja victims.


The U.S. military had no immediate comment on the raid.