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Strategpage has an excellent summary of the battle for Fallujah. I highly recommend reading it. In summary . . .
There were about 500 American and Iraqi casualties in the fighting, and 1,200 enemy killed, and another 1,500 captured (many of them wounded.). The biggest casualty, however, was the reputation of the anti-government forces. The al Qaeda and Sunni Arab gunmen had boasted that they would hold Fallujah, and kill hundreds of Americans in the process. The American death toll was under fifty, and the city was cleared of enemy fighters in two weeks. The boasting backfired, and “Fallujah†has become a word the anti-government forces don’t want to hear any more.Posted by The Vorlon at July 23, 2005 9:55 AM