From: Jihad Unspun

By Muhammad Abu Nasr, Free Arab Voice and Omar Al-Faris, JUS

Fallujah Mujahideen have succeed in clearing US occupation forces from the center of the city after a fierce battle that started when fighters stormed the al-Wahdah neighborhood on Monday night.

According to Mafkarat al-Islam’s correspondent in Fallujah, a detachment of Mujahideen in the resistance-controlled south of the city, in conjunction with a detachment in the eastern Fallujah neighborhood of al-‘Askari, mounted a powerful attack on the al-Wahdah neighborhood. In a report posted at 12:35pm Tuesday afternoon 1:35pm local time the correspondent confirmed that the Mujahideen controlled al-Wahdah although there were still some clashes going on with US forces on the outskirts of the neighborhood.

The Mujahideen gave up control of al-Wahdah for an extended period in an effort to create numerous, simultaneous fronts to thin occupation troops in order to attack them one-by-one and to allow the Mujahideen mobility during the intial invasion phase, according to the reporters analysis.

Mujahideen also stormed the al-Jawlan neighborhood in the north of al-Fallujah, breaking into the neighborhood from the direction of al-Azraqiyah in the northwest. They were backed by other Mujahideen units that had deployed within the neighborhood after Mujahideen from outside the city broke through US positions on Saturday afternoon. JUS reported at the time that we suspected this breach of US lines would give the resistance “ideas” and it appears now that it was in fact a trail run to determine how the occupiers would respond.

In another significant gain, Mujahideen pierced the American ring around the city from the north for the first time. The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported that Resistance detachments totaling between 500 to 600 fighters swam across the river from the north in small groups and into the old section of the city. From there they advanced to the al-Jawlan neighborhood, to the railroad, then the as-Sakani neighborhood to arrive at the northern part of the city. They then moved supplies in, the nature of which is not known, to the Mujahideen blockaded in the city.

Meanwhile Mujahideen in the area outside al-Fallujah fired three rockets at US forces stationed in the garden areas of al-Bu ‘Irin area northwest of the city. White dust rose from the area struck by the rocket barrage and afterwards, four giant Chinook helicopters reportedly began evacuating casualties from the target area although no specific numbers were reported.

Mujahideen then made use of the US forces’ preoccupation with the rocket attack and its aftermath to break through the American blockade into the northwest of the al-Jawlan neighborhood at 9:30pm Monday night.

With these latest developments, it appears the Mujahideen are using innovative guerrilla tactics to determine where the weaknesses in the US battle plan lay while regaining some territory.(JUS)