Felluce Resistance Falls Off

US Captain Robert Bodisch, speaking to Reuters, said: "Two days ago they were taking us on. Last night they fled. It was as if their will had been broken."

The insurgents had been concentrated in Suheda in the southern part of the city, continued Bodisch, which was a stronghold of the foreign fighters.

Iraqi Minister for National Security Qasim Davud, said that turning its sixth day of American operation in Fallujah, 1000 insurgents had been killed and 200 taken prisoner.