U.S. Marines Prepare For Possible Fallujah Offensive

NEAR FALLUJAH, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 3: (GERMANY OUT) A U.S. Navy corpsman (medic) looks down the empty barrel of his pistol as he cleans the weapon while U.S. Marines with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) prepare for an expected military offensive against Iraqi insurgents in the city of Fallujah November 3, 2004 near Fallujah, Iraq. Fallujah, 30 miles west of Baghdad, has been the nerve center of an insurgency that has dogged U.S. and Iraqi forces for over a year, and where terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is believed to be based. (Photo by Scott Peterson/Getty Images)