http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs12082004.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Falluja In Pictures: Suffer the little children:

- Warning - Graphic images depict the reality of operation Iraqi freedom...

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DF41B027-F523-494D-8A1F-4E59C5D2C0FB.htm
http://snipurl.com/b5qc


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Returning residents may find that the measures make Fallujah look more like a police state than the democracy they have been promised.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/12/05/returning_fallujans_will_face_clampdown/
http://snipurl.com/b4qf


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Patrick Cockburn on Iraq After Falluja: Will the US Win the Occupation?

by Alan Maass

From the execution of unarmed civilians, to U.S. snipers planted in mosques, to raids on hospitals, the horrors of the U.S. invasion of Falluja continue to emerge in the media. The international media, that is. It’s almost impossible to learn the real story of the U.S. assault from America’s corporate media--which has reverted to the same uncritical, cheerleading attitude it had during the weeks after the invasion of Iraq began. But accounts of what actually took place when the U.S. attacked what it claimed was a small force of “terrorists” in Falluja describe a high-tech slaughter. The leveling of Falluja will only add to the fury of ordinary Iraqis--ultimately fueling opposition and resistance, whether in the so-called “Sunni triangle” in central Iraq, or among the majority Shias in the south, or in northern cities like Mosul once thought relatively stable. Patrick Cockburn has been an invaluable source of information for anyone wanting to know what is going on in Iraq. As a correspondent for Britain’s Independent newspaper, he has written regular reports from Iraq throughout the occupation. Many of these reports have appeared on the CounterPunch Web site. With his brother Andrew, he wrote Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein--one of the best books on Iraq under Saddam’s Baath Party regime. Last month, in the aftermath of the invasion, he talked to Socialist Worker’s Alan Maass about what really happened in Falluja--and why Washington’s “victory” in this battle won’t help it win the war....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Dec2004/Maass1206.htm

Letter from a GI in Falluja: “This Wasn’t a War, It Was a Massacre”

by hEkLe

The following letter from a U.S. soldier stationed in Iraq, known as hEkLe, powerfully conveys the terror of the U.S. assault on Falluja: These are ugly times for the U.S. military in Iraq. It seems everywhere you turn, more and more troops are being killed and maimed in vicious encounters with determined rebel fighters. The insurgency is mounting incredibly in such places as Baghdad, Mosul and Baquba, using more advanced techniques and weaponry associated with a well-organized guerilla campaign. Even in the massively destroyed city of Falluja, rebel forces are starting to reappear with a callous determination to win or die trying. Many critics and political pundits are starting to realize that this war is, in many aspects, un-winnable....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Dec2004/hEkLe1206.htm

by Dahr Jamail

Men now seeking refuge in the Baghdad area are telling horrific stories of indiscriminate killings by US forces during the peak of fighting last month in the largely annihilated city of Fallujah....

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Dec2004/Jamail1206-2.htm

http://www.fallujahinpictures.com/


Informant: Michael Johnson

The director of Fallujah General Hospital was shot and wounded by soldiers while he and two other doctors attempted to enter Fallujah in an ambulance in order to provide aid to families trapped there...

http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000148.php#more
http://snipurl.com/b46w


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