As the US prepared to invade Fallujah, violence spread throughout Iraq over the weekend. Fighting, suicide car bombings and assassinations took the lives of 60 people and left another 75 injured. In the deadliest attack, gunmen * executed 21 Iraqi police officers* in the province of Al-Anbar. In response to the violence, the U.S.-backed Iraqi government declared a 60-day ,b> state of emergency and put most of the country under martial law.