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The 2004 Fallujah ambush occurred on March 31, 2004, when Iraqi insurgents attacked a convoy containing four American contractors from the private military company Blackwater USA who were conducting a delivery for food caterers ESS.
Four U.S. civilian contractors are killed in a grenade attack by Iraqi guerrillas in Fallujah, Iraq. A violent mob pulls charred bodies from the burning vehicles and hang two bodies from a bridge over the Euphrates. In a separate incident, five U.S. soldiers are killed in a large roadside bomb attack 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Fallujah.
Fallujah's real boss: Omar the electrician - by Hannah Allam, Knight Ridder (22 November 2004) Telling the Fallujah Story to the World - Military.com (20 November 2004) Fallujah yields up weapons, videos – The Christian Science Monitor (19 November 2004) Letter from Fallujah to Kofi Annan signed by Al-Fallujah Shura Council, a council of ...
First Fights in Fallujah: Marines During Operation Vigilant Resolve, in Iraq, April 2004. Philadelphia: Casemate. ISBN 9781636243184. No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah, by Bing West (2005) (ISBN 978-0-553-80402-7) Blood Stripes: The Grunt's View of the War in Iraq, by David J. Danelo (2007) (ISBN 978-0-8117-3393-9)
The second cause, probably the flashpoint for the conflict, was the highly publicized killing and mutilation of four Blackwater private military contractors on March 31, 2004. Five days before American troops withdrew from Fallujah after intense fighting on March 26, 2004 (at which point Fallujah had already been declared insurgent-occupied ...
March 2: Multiple bombings in Baghdad and Karbala at the climax of the Shi'a festival of Aashurah kill nearly 200, the deadliest attacks up to that time. [14] March 8: Provisional Iraqi Constitution signed. March 31: 31 March 2004 Fallujah ambush: Four Blackwater contractors ambushed and killed in Fallujah, causing a First Battle of Fallujah.
January 14: A suicide bomber detonated a bomb outside an Iraqi police station in Baquba.At least three Iraqis are killed and 29 wounded. [1]January 18: 18 January 2004 Baghdad bombing - A suicide bomber blew up a Toyota pickup truck packed with 1,000 pounds of explosives outside the headquarters of the US-led coalition, killing 24-31 people, including two American soldiers, and injuring more ...
April 4 – Operation Vigilant Resolve begins in response to the mutilation on March 31 in Fallujah. U.S. coalition forces face tough opposition as the resistance uses Soviet-style defense in depth tactics. April 5 – U.S. forces seal off Fallujah; April 6 – Defense of Karbala's City Hall ends with victory of Polish-Bulgarian troops; April 7