The rumour mill is buzzing. Gossip and news travel quickly in Iraq, and the word is that US troops will start conducting joint patrols with the Iraqi army and police tomorrow.
Such patrols seem destined to kick off further fighting between the citizens of Fallujah and the marines.
'Even if the mujahedeen will not kill them, the people will kill them. Those who lost their brothers or their fathers will kill them. It will be even stronger than the previous resistance. The problem now is not protecting our homes or our property, it is protecting our family,' said Abdullah, whose brother was injured by US soldiers during last month's street fighting.
He made the women and children in his family leave the city during the fighting, but the men remained to protect their homes and businesses.
Thomas Johnson, the public affairs officer for the marines in the city, declined to discuss when the patrols would begin, for 'obvious reasons'.
The northern reaches of the city, such as Jolan, will not be patrolled by US troops but by a new Iraqi force.
Members of that army sat smoking cigarettes in Jolan yesterday. They wore the uniforms of the former army and the people seemed more amenable to their presence, although some residents said they still viewed the members of the old army as traitors for co-operating with the occupying troops.