FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. Marines handed control in Falluja to a former general in Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s Republican Guard on Friday but new violence showed that a month of fighting in the besieged Sunni Muslim city was not over.
In a reversal of Washington's previous policy of excluding senior members of Saddam's Baathist regime from power, Jasim Mohamed Saleh said his new force would help police bring order and relieve a month-long siege that has cost hundreds of lives.
"We have now begun forming a new emergency military force," he told Reuters, saying people in Falluja "rejected" U.S. troops.
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