The Consultative Council of Mujahideen of Fallujah has issued a communiqué concerning the nature and results of the fighting that took place between the occupation and the Mujahideen in the city between 6 November 2004 and 2 January 2005. The communiqué, a copy of which was obtained by Mafkarat al-Islam, gave reasons for the withdrawal of resistance forces from the northern neighborhoods of the city and from the al-‘Askari neighborhood in the city’s eastern section. It also gave a count of US and British losses as well as those suffered by the Mujahideen.