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Harrison Ford in The Battle for Fallujah
Source: Variety
December 16, 2004

Harrison Ford is attached to play one of the key characters in an ensemble drama that marks the first major feature project about the current war in Iraq, reports Variety. Universal-based Double Feature partners Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher have optioned the upcoming book "No True Glory: The Battle for Fallujah," to be published in May.

The book was written by Bing West, an ex-Marine and former assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs who is now a foreign correspondent covering the Iraq war. West will write the script with son Owen, a longtime Marine rifleman who left the service to become a trader at Goldman Sachs but returned to fight in Iraq for a year.

After four Americans were mutilated and hanged in Fallujah, the White House ordered an assault on the insurgent stronghold to be led by Gen. Jim Mattis (to be played by Ford). Marine forces devastated the opposition and were 48 hours away from taking control of Fallujah when the White House abruptly ordered them to stop. The Marines lost 28 soldiers the first time around and added another 50 fatalities after the White House ordered them to go back and finish the job six months later.

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