Fighting Halts Briefly in Falluja; U.S. Convoy Hit Near Baghdad
By JOHN F. BURNS
NY Times
Published: April 10, 2004

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 9 — An American cease-fire on Friday in the besieged city of Falluja lowered at least briefly the gathering drumbeat of warfare across central and southern Iraq that has created the worst crisis of the American occupation and left hundreds of Iraqis and scores of Americans dead.

One year to the day after American troops captured Baghdad, both Sunni and Shiite insurgents continued sporadic but widespread attacks, including an ambush of fuel trucks on a highway near Falluja, just as the cease-fire began.