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I heard on my way to a hearing, half the Iraqi troops deserted.



I didn't hear about that. Reports on Wednesday put the US military's total death toll at 11 Americans and two Iraqi government soldiers.

An Iraqi journalist inside Falluja, Fadhil Badrani, told the BBC he had seen the bodies of at least six American soldiers, and many dead insurgents.

"I witnessed with my own eyes two tanks and three personnel carriers having been crippled, and about six American dead lying on the ground...

There are many, many bodies of combatants strewn around. Some have not been moved since the start of the war. The smell of rotten flesh started to spread - it is very frightening"