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Operation Phantom Fury: The Turning Point of the Iraq War

Simon Whistler · February 9, 2024 · 20 min video · Middle East

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Iraq November 2004 Saddam Hussein has been captured. The Iraqi government is fractured and the Americans have long since proclaimed victory, but the war still goes on. In the city of Fallujah, thousands of well-armed international insurgents have gathered together to make ready for battle.

As a man believed to hide their center, Abu Masab al-Zakhwari, a Jordanian who had very recently been crowned first a mere of al-Qaeda in Iraq. The troops who would have to go into Fallujah and find him? Six and a half thousand US Marines backed up by the army, the navy, the air force, the British and the Iraqis.

Codenamed Operation Phantom Fury, the second battle of Fallujah, would be the bloodiest of the entire Iraq war and the bloodiest in marine history since Vietnam. On today's episode of War of Graphics, we're going to go inside the battle, why it happened, how it went down, and what, if anything, survived in the aftermath?

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