Keeping track is hard,...it's hard work

6,500 American G.I.'s and 2,000 Iraqis on Attack - New York Times.com headline

Some 5,000 U.S. Marines and soldiers were massed in the desert on Fallujah's northern edge. They were joined by 2,000 to 4,000 Iraqi troops. - CBSNews.com

As many as 15,000 U.S. and Iraqi soldiers were moving slowly into Fallujah to retake the city from insurgents. - MSNBC.com

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Car bombs at two Baghdad churches and outside a hospital treating the victims of those attacks killed at least six people and wounded dozens of others Monday night. - MSNBC.com

A doctor at a clinic in Fallujah, Mohammed Amer, reported 12 people were killed. Seventeen others, including a 5-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy, were wounded, he said. - CBSNews.com

"Later in the evening, an explosion hit near Yarmouk Hospital in western Baghdad, when two mortar rounds were fired at police cars parked outside, killing at least three policemen," said policeman Adnan Jassim Mohammed. He said there was an unspecified number of wounded. - FoxNews.com

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"All the hospital staff and doctors have been arrested," said a doctor at the hospital, Ahmad Ghanim... The doctor added that US forces had grounded all ambulances and fired on and disabled the hospital's only car. Doctors were also running short of medicines. - Al Jazeera

Earlier Monday, U.S. and Iraqi forces seized two bridges over the Euphrates River and a hospital on Fallujah's western edge that they said was under insurgents' control. - CBSNews.com

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The violence occurred as U.S. and Iraqi troops launched their long expected assault on Fallujah, 40 miles to the west, to regain control of the city from insurgents and Islamic extremists. - Fox News.com

The US military says 1000 to 6000 fighters - Saddam Hussein supporters and foreign fighters led by al-Qaida ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - are holed up in Falluja's alleyways and on rooftops... But residents of Falluja say neither al-Zarqawi nor members of al-Qaida are in the city. - Al-Jazeera