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First Battle of Fallujah

The First Battle of Fallujah, code-named Operation Vigilant Resolve, was an operation against militants in Fallujah as well as an attempt to apprehend or kill the perpetrators of the killing of four U.S. contractors in March 2004.

For other uses, see Battle of Fallujah (disambiguation).

The chief catalyst for the operation was the highly publicized killing and mutilation of four Blackwater USA private military contractors,[6] and the killings of five American soldiers in Habbaniyah a few days earlier.[7]


The battle, and especially the images of Iraqi civilians killed or injured in the fighting, caused many Iraqis to become resentful of the US presence. Western journalists found that even some Iraqis who previously supported the US invasion, and welcomed American state-building efforts, became increasingly alienated and skeptical of such promises.[8]

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No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah, by (2005) (ISBN 978-0-553-80402-7)

Bing West

Blood Stripes: The Grunt's View of the War in Iraq, by David J. Danelo (2007) ( 978-0-8117-3393-9)

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Boredom By Day, Death By Night: An Iraq War Journal, by Marine Sgt Seth Connor (2007) ( 978-0-9795389-0-2)

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Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander's Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery, by , with Mike Steere (2008) (ISBN 978-1-932714-47-0)

Nicholas Popaditch

"Fallujah Forensics" a documentary film by [55]

Tara Sutton

Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq, by (2007) (ISBN 978-1931859-61-5) Haymarket Books.

Dahr Jamail

Second Battle of Fallujah

United States occupation of Fallujah

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History of Iraqi insurgency

Iraqi insurgency

Operation Vigilant Resolve at GlobalSecurity

Guardian Unlimited. Detailed interactive on the Fallujah battles.

Iraq: The Siege of Falluja

Associated Press, 5 April 2004. News article published at the start of the operation.

"U.S. Launches 'Vigilant Resolve'"

7 April 2004. MSNBC transcript of a television report providing information on Operation Vigilant Resolve and the rest of the spring uprisings.

Hardball with Chris Matthews

PBS Frontline.

"Private Warriors"

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