The Wire

Fierce fighting is underway in Falluja, as US and Iraqi troops embark on a full-scale assault on the city – codenamed Operation Dawn. US Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld has said that gaining control of the city is crucial to ensuring peace in the region … but at what cost? While Rumsfeld has said he does not foresee large numbers of civilian casualties in the conflict, As’ad Abukhalil, Professor of Political Science at the California State University and author of the Angry Arab weblog, disagrees with this assessment.

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