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First US withdrawals from al-Fallujah reported.

In a dispatch posted at 9pm Mecca time, Friday night, a Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that US forces outside al-Fallujah on Friday were subjected to Resistance bombardment with Grad and Tariq rockets. The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in the area reported that after receiving the pounding, US troops pulled their units from the western sector of their ring surrounding the city back in the direction of the US base at al-Habbaniyah.

Friday afternoon, a large number of armored vehicles were also withdrawn towards al-Habbahiyah without engaging the Resistance.

This was the first US retreat from any of the sectors of the ring around al-Fallujah since the siege began some weeks ago. US forces also withdrew the check points that they had set up to the west of the city on the old bridge and the new bridge. Also withdrawn was one of the US command points to the north of the city, but this was after it came under Iraqi Resistance bombardment.

These developments show a weakening of the US forces surrounding al-Fallujah, a kind of shocked reaction to their failure to dislodge the Resistance. In fact in the last three days, the Resistance has managed to regain its old strength and widen the areas of the city under their control so that now 65 percent of al-Fallujah is controlled by the Resistance.