Zarqawi. The military said 22 U.S. and five Iraqi combatants had been killed and 170 U.S. troops wounded in the battle for Falluja. Civilians still in the city stay indoors, scared by the noise of battle, an Iraqi journalist who left on Friday said. "If the fighters fire a mortar, U.S. forces respond with huge force," said the journalist, who asked not to be named. The city had been without power or water for days. Frozen food had spoiled and people could not charge their cellphones. "Some people hadn't prepared well. They didn't stock up on tinned food. They didn't think it would be this bad," he said. In Mosul, gunmen were still roaming the streets in some districts after storming and looting nine police stations on Thursday, but Iraqi and U.S. forces were guarding some of the bridges that span the Tigris River in the city, residents said. --More 2052 Local Time 1752 GMT
