US Promises Overwhelming Response to Iraq Killings
People cheer around burned corpses after they were cut down from a bridge, following an attack in the restive town of Falluja, Iraq (news - web sites) March 31, 2004. A crowd of cheering Iraqis dragged charred and mutilated bodies through the streets of F
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops on Thursday vowed to use overwhelming force to enter the volatile Iraqi town of Falluja and hunt down those who killed and mutilated four American contractors.
Marines took up positions on the outskirts of the restive town west of Baghdad where insurgents ambushed the contractors on Wednesday, but the U.S. army's deputy director of operations Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt said they would return.