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February 3rd, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Iraqi government forces have killed 50 militants in artillery and airstrikes as they continue their preparations to storm the anti-government insurgents’ stronghold in the Anbar province city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad.
The Iraqi defense ministry has announced that 50 members of the
Al-Qaeda linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) were
killed in Saturday’s and Sunday’s aerial bombardment and
artillery assaults as government forces and local militias
targeted ISIS fighters in the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah.
The ministry also claimed that it has neutralized 135 explosive
devices and destroyed 7 vehicles. Large amounts of weaponry were
also seized.
Soldiers and police battled alongside tribesmen in southern
Ramadi, AFP reported but were making slow progress. Defense
Minister Saadun al Dulaimi visited the troops to oversee the
assault.
The Iraqi government warned on Saturday that it was preparing a
full scale assault on the city [LINK], but to date has mostly
resorted to heavy bombardment. The army units deployed around the
city stayed out of Fallujah to avoid being dragged into a
protracted gunfight.
Meanwhile on Sunday, multiple deadly attacks in Baghdad and
cities in its vicinity killed 21 people, security and medical
officials said.
At least eight were killed in an attack on Sahwa fighters and
anti-Al-Qaeda Sunni militiamen in the town of Baiji. What started
off as a gun battle on their base was followed by a suicide car
bomb. At least 17 people were injured. Another 13 people have
been killed in attacks in Baghdad, Balad, Taji, Mosul and Kirkuk.
Violence in Anbar province erupted last year when local Sunni
tribes revolted, aroused by a government raid to ensure the
arrest of Sunni politicians and protesters at a suspected
“al-Qaeda headquarters” in Ramadi. Al-Qaeda-linked
fighters soon took over Fallujah and parts of Ramadi, taking the
lead in the uprising against the Shiite-led government.
The lengthy stand-off has already prompted more than 140,000
people to flee their homes, and has resulted in hundreds of
deaths – including civilians.
Over the last month, the prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, has been
reaching out to the local tribes to expel militants from the
area, while simultaneously appealing for the international
community to support the country with arms to battle the Al-Qaeda
threat. US pledged to accelerate it military supplies as soon as
possible.
Before the airstrikes and mortar attacks on Sunday, the
government had warned those inside Fallujah to lay down their arms
and surrender, threatening to treat anyone who refuses as an ISIL
militant “whether he is or not,” according to Iraqi
military official cited by Reuters.
Meanwhile Iraq’s renegade vice president has warned that
following Iraqi government’s assault on Anbar province, violence
could eventually spread to other parts of the country as Sunni
opposition to the regime grows.
“Al-Maliki is targeting Arab Sunnis in different provinces,
with the use of army forces, or handing them death sentences in a
way that has never been seen before in Iraq’s modern history, and
therefore it’s the right of these individuals to defend
themselves in every way possible,” the fugitive VP Tarek
Al-Hashemi, a Sunni sentenced to death in 2012, told MENAFN Arab
News agency.
Source Article from http://rt.com/news/army-assault-fallujah-battle-557/
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