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After several failed attempts at ceasefires, the U. S. backed out of the city.

A Marine commander stated " We don't want to turn Fallujah into Dresden ".

The U. S. handed authority of the city over to a former Iraqi general who had served under Saddam Hussein, and whose fighters the U. S. acknowledges may include former members of insurgency.