Our "victory" in Fallujah.

News: "Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, said allied forces had 'completed the move, for all practical purposes, from the north of the town to the south'. Iraq's interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, said there had been 'a clear-cut win over the insurgents and the terrorists'.


But the pacification of the rebel stronghold could be a hollow victory. The Americans will leave behind them a shattered city, having unleashed the full might of the US military against an estimated 6,000 insurgents.


There was plenty of evidence across Iraq that the war is far from over, and the devastation of Fallujah is likely to have fuelled the resistance"