対イラク武力行使

ＡＦＰ通信によると現在の数値は国内の報道とはだいぶ違います。

US, Iraqi forces pierce Fallujah after state of emergency declared
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1511&ncid=1511&e=12&u=/afp/20041108/wl_afp/iraq_041108080215

" About 20,000 US and Iraqi forces had gathered around Fallujah amid mounting expectations of a major offensive to wrest the city, believed to be the nerve centre of Iraq's bloody insurgency, from the grip of rebels. "

米軍兵力はイラク軍と合わせて約2万

"It is estimated now that nearly 80 percent of the city's 300,000 inhabitants have already left in fear of greater bloodshed "

ファルージャ市民30万人のうち八割（6万人）が市外に退去済みとのこと。