[Peace-discuss] Interesting...

[C. G. Estabrook]

[From the Drudge Report, which -- whatever else one may say about it -- is
good about getting stories first (and often accurately).  --CGE]


BUSH MAKES THE CALL: NO FULL-SCALE FALLUJAH OFFENSIVE

U.S. Marines have postponed plans to mount an attack against insurgents in
Fallujah and instead will attempt to regain control of the
violence-wracked city without a full-scale offensive...

The new strategy reached in consultation with White House over the
weekend...

Concerned about the repercussions an attack could generate across Iraq and
the Arab world, military to confront a band of hard-core Sunni Muslim
insurgents by having Marines conduct patrols in the city alongside Iraqi
security forces...

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