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JANE ARRAF, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We're on the outskirts on the northeast side of the city. But other units of task force 22 from the Army's 1st Infantry Division had been moving further in, as far in as 800 meters into the city.

Out here in between, they have been blowing up railroad tracks to allow them to move further. They've also, for more than an hour, been decimating a series of booby traps.

This is what U.S. forces had expected and had feared as they began to move into the city, that there was a series of improvised explosive devices, homemade bombs, laid out in patterns to try to prevent them from moving in. The Army, the units that we're with, have been firing at these with tanks, causing huge explosions.

This is a sector of the city where there are very few civilians. In fact, officials have told us that they believe insurgents have prevented civilians from moving back into this area as they've been rigging up buildings, barriers and almost everything else with these homemade bombs.

They are continuing to detonate them, and they are now detonating -- the Army is blowing up railroad tracks to allow them to go further.

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DOBBS: That Jane Arraf reporting from the outskirts of Falluja, embedded with Task Force 22 of the Army's 1st Infantry Division. If that division slows down enough over the course of the next 45 minutes, and Jane has the opportunity, we'll, of course, be going live to her for the very latest on the -- on the progress of this offensive.