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Marines Begin Attacks on Fallujah

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By Eric Niiler,

Melissa Block

Published April 5, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

U.S. Marines besiege the Iraqi town of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, where crowds mutilated the bodies of four American civilians killed in a roadside attack last Wednesday. The Marines are preparing a new offensive in Fallujah to root out those responsible for the killings. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and Eric Niiler of member station KPBS in San Diego.

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