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/ 4 October 2005

US uses ‘Iron Fist’ to uproot insurgents in Iraq

The United States military launched a major offensive early on Tuesday in a cluster of cities in the Euphrates River valley aimed at insurgents who were using the area as a safe haven and who had killed 20 marines there in August. It was the second US offensive launched against al-Qaeda in Iraq militants in the Anbar region of western Iraq in four days.