WASHINGTON -- Twenty-two Americans troops have died in combat in Fallujah in five days of fighting, according to a U.S. Marine general in Washington.
Another 170 have been wounded, with 40 of them treated and returned to combat, said Lt. Gen. John Sattler, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force.
Iraqi government forces have lost five soldiers in combat and suffered 40 wounded, said Maj. Gen Abdul Qader Mohammed Jassim Mohan, the chief of Iraqi military operations in the Iraqi Army.
Approximately 600 Fallujah resistance fighters have been killed, Sattler said.
"This isn't attrition warfare. We are not counting the enemy as they fall," he said.
"We are fighting a very stubborn enemy," Sattler said. "We feel we've broken their back and their spirit."
