Is this another failed enemy attack on a defended position?

Bill Roggio:

As negotiations to form the Iraqi government proceed, Coalition and insurgent forces continue to battle over the contested city of Ramadi. The Associated Press reports "Sunni insurgents made their strongest attack in six weeks against the Anbar provincial government headquarters in Ramadi" and "U.S. Marines guarding the government headquarters fought back with anti-tank rockets, machine guns and small-arms fire." Marine air support from Al Asad Air base was called in, and an F/A-18 conducted a bombing run on insurgent positions. "Sporadic shooting occurred around the government building after sunset."

No Marines were reported killed in the fighting, and the number of insurgents killed is unknown. A reader from Holland email and said a Dutch news source indicated fifty insurgents were killed during the counterattack [will update post if source becomes available]. The provincial government headquarters sits directly on Route Michigan, perhaps the most dangerous stretch of road in Iraq, and is the symbol of power in Anbar.

Insurgents have conducted false propaganda operations in the past, such as the incident in early December where the Associated Press reported a fake uprising based on stringers, so the possibility exists this report is false as well.

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I am not sure why someone would use a story about a failed attack as propaganda, but news reporting in Iraq has a tendency to give significance to the fact of an attack rather than the effect of an attack.