Fallujah fighting jeopardizes fragile truce (AP\MSNBC)

Fallujah fighting jeopardizes fragile truce
Growing violence in Iraq eclipses political process

The Associated Press
Updated: 11:14 p.m. ET April 14, 2004

FALLUJAH, Iraq - U.S. warplanes strafed gunmen in Fallujah on Wednesday, and more than 100 guerrillas with rocket-propelled grenades pounded a lone Marine armored vehicle lost in the streets — a sign of heavy battles to come if Marines resume a full assault on this besieged city.

With a truce crumbling and President Bush calling for a key U.N. role to keep the country’s political transition moving amid the violence, a top U.N. envoy proposed an Iraqi caretaker government in a formula that abandons a U.S.-favored plan.

With at least 22 foreigners kidnapped and at least 87 U.S. troops killed halfway into April, the unprecedented violence has largely eclipsed the political process. Negotiations were being held on both fronts — at Fallujah in central Iraq and at Najaf in the south — but the U.S. military has warned it will begin new assaults if talks do not bear fruit.

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Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4667742/

It's around 8:00 in the morning there now. Dreading the new day here. I'm sure everyone over there is as well.

Crap...