title: Battle for Fallujah: Occupation, Resistance And Stalemate in the War in Iraq
author:  Vincent L. Foulk 
description: <b>Vincent L. Foulk</b> is currently serving in Iraq as an advisor to the Iraqi Government on investigating and prosecuting corruption.
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  ## Hero of Cartao 3. Hero's End
  
  
    
  
  
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  ## Timothy Zahn
  
  
  ##  Hero of Cartao 3. Hero's End
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The streets of Foulahn City were dark and deserted as Kinman Doriana picked
  his way through the litter of broken droids, small missile craters, shattered
  buildings, bodies, and the general clutter of war. The military comlink he'd
  borrowed from Commander Roshton had allowed him to listen in on the Republic
  side of the battle, and he'd known the fighting here and at the Triv Spaceport
  had been fierce. But even that knowledge hadn't prepared him for the actual
  carnage the soldiers had left behind.
  
  
  A half dozen craters overlapped each other across the street in front of him,
  half filled with rubble from the buildings the missiles had destroyed and a
  few mutilated bodies of the civilians who'd been caught in the crossfire.
  
  
  The fighting here must have been particularly bad, he decided, with a
  higherranking officer directing the Repub