Fallujah may be quieting down but insurgents continue to fight on in other Iraqi cities, most recently in Baqouba. American forces and their Iraqi government allies had killed at least 27 people according to reports out of that city.

Meanwhile, some pockets of resistence remain in Fallujah but American troops are in control of the city. Relief supplies were still not able to gain access to Fallujah today as a convoy of Red Cresent vehicles carrying medical supplies and food were not able to enter the city. The Red Cresent is the Muslim equivilent of the Red Cross.

'I can't sacrifice the lives of the volunteers; it is very dangerous to go inside Fallujah now and we preferred not to enter,' said Ismail al-Haqi, the director of the Iraqi Red Cresent Society.

The Iraqi government also announced that Moayad Ahmed Yasseen, a leader of a terrorist group that has beheaded some foreign hostages, has been captured. The government did not link Yasseen to any specific hostage taking incident as of yet but were very pleased with his capture.

Representatives of the Iraqi government were pleased with the progress in Fallujah and elsewhere.

'Fallujah is no more a safe haven for the terrorists and killers. This thing is over,' a government minister told reporters in Baghdad.

In Baqouba, the U.S. First Infantry Division troops were attacked by insurgents using rocket-propelled grenades, automatic weapons and mortar fire. Some attacks were coming directly from mosques according to American sources. The opposition feels that if the Americans damage mosques, it can reinforce the belief that the U.S. is fighting a war against Islam and thereby try to acquire more followers.

Fighting between Iraqi government forces and insurgents has broken out elsewhere in Iraq as well according to Iraqi authorities.
Meanwhile, battles rage on.