CBS Evening News snippet - 2004-12-13 (Iraq War)

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[0:06] US Marines say Fallujah's insurgents are

[0:08] beaten, but they keep fighting back. CBS

[0:11] News has learned that five Marines were

[0:13] killed in the city on Sunday by small

[0:15] arms fire, prompting a series of US air

[0:18] strikes this morning. There have been

[0:20] sporadic battles since Friday in a town

[0:23] supposedly cleared of rebels in a

[0:24] combined American Iraqi crackdown last

[0:27] month. Two more Marines were killed by a

[0:29] car bomb to the south in the troubled

[0:31] Babel province.

[0:33] Fallujah's residents have been

[0:35] protesting to return to their shattered

[0:36] city, something US commanders had hoped

[0:39] to allow later this week, but that will

[0:41] likely be delayed.

[0:44] In Baghdad, a suicide car bomb hit yet

[0:46] another checkpoint outside the Green

[0:48] Zone, headquarters of the coalition and

[0:50] the Iraqi government. The blast killed

[0:52] more than a dozen Iraqi civilians

[0:54] waiting to enter the secure area. The

[0:56] attack was claimed on an extremist

[0:58] website by al-Qaeda of Iraq, the group

[1:01] led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab

[1:03] Zarqawi. The statement made no mention

[1:06] of Saddam Hussein. But the bombing was

[1:08] seen by some Iraqis as marking the

[1:10] anniversary of the former Iraqi

[1:12] president's capture. Saddam himself,

[1:14] seen here at a court appearance earlier

[1:16] this year, is still waiting for trial.

[1:18] Iraqi officials now say it may not

[1:20] happen for at least a year as they seek

[1:23] more evidence and wait for a permanent

[1:25] government to be elected here. In the

[1:27] meantime, lawyers for some highle

[1:29] detainees, including former deputy prime

[1:31] minister Terziz, say the prisoners went

[1:34] on hunger strike this weekend to demand

[1:36] more rights. US officials say eight

[1:39] high-ranking prisoners did refuse

[1:40] breakfast this morning, but later

[1:42] changed their minds. Saddam Hussein,

[1:44] they say, has not taken part in the

[1:46] prisoners protest. Kimberly Doer, CBS

[1:49] News, Baghdad.