Iraqi troops reject Falluja duty

A senior US military officer in Iraq has said that a battalion of the new Iraqi army refused to support US forces in the town of Falluja.

A report in the Washington Post newspaper said the 620-man battalion refused to go to Falluja after being shot at in a Shia area of Baghdad.

It was the first time US commanders had sought to involve post-war Iraqi forces in major combat operations.

The troops were quoted as saying they had not signed up to fight Iraqis.

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Perhaps George Bush should go over there and talk them into it. George Bush's dirty little war is turning into an absolute failure. He now has the blood of 650 American soldiers on his hands. He is now negotiating with the same insurgents that mutilated those four contractors last week.