As Americans prepared for Thanksgiving, an estimated 100,000 residents of the besieged Iraqi city of Fallujah, trapped in their homes, struggled to survive without fresh food, water or electricity, reportedly cut off by U.S. forces on Nov. 8. Meanwhile, on the streets of Fallujah, a city of more than 350,000, dogs gnaw on bloated and rotting corpses that remain unburied for weeks. Thousands of families in Fallujah were reported to be in a critical humanitarian situation after U.S. forces prevented the delivery of relief supplies. An Iraq Red Crescent Society (IRCS) humanitarian aid convoy, reportedly blocked by U.S. troops for more than two weeks, was allowed to deliver aid to residents in the heart of the city on Nov. 25. On Thanksgiving, U.S. forces permitted the IRCS convoy carrying thousands of food parcels, blankets, tents and medical supplies to enter the city and allowed one of the clinics to be converted into a temporary hospital to treat the injured.

Rana Sidani of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva, Switzerland, however, told American Free Press on Nov. 30 that "many civilians" were still prevented from receiving aid or medical care.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/iraq/us_troops_ordered_war_crimes.htm


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Top Stories - December 18th, 2004