Thick smoke rises after an U.S. airstrike in Fallujah, Iraq, Wednesday Sept. 8, 2004. On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, U.S. jets fired several missiles into Fallujah in retaliation for Monday's militant attacks on Marine positions outside the city that killed seven Marines. (AP Photo/Abdul Khader Sadi)

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U.S. warplanes bomb insurgent-held cities

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• September 8, 2004