[BurbankKarl]

Baghdad-Jordan routes closed

From correspondents in Baghdad

April 5, 2004

THE US-led coalition has shut down the highways from Baghdad to Jordan because of ongoing military activities in the area home to the rebel towns of Fallujah and Ramadi, the coalition said today.


"The highways (1 and 10) from Baghdad to Jordan will be closed indefinitely due to military activities," the US consulate said in a statement.
Residents in Fallujah said several people were killed or wounded early today when US troops fought insurgents in the town, 50km west of Baghdad.

US forces sealed all the roads leading to Fallujah, barricading residents inside the restive Sunni Muslim town.

Four US civilian contractors were ambushed last week by gunmen in the rebel town and later the bodies of two of them were hacked and mutilated.

The US military has vowed a painful retaliation.

AFP

[LdSentinal]

The Marines are going after Ramadi as well?