Reply #10: Google -As-Saqlawiyah out of control [View All]

The US military has prevented an aid convoy from reaching
the besieged city of Falluja, a doctor based in Baghdad
who accompanied the convoy
says.

"The Iraqi ministry of health asked us to go to Falluja. When
we were on our way, the US army stopped our convoy,
and carried out a search," said Dr Ibrahim al-
Kubaisi.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F0A47D67-7D17-4140-A992-2AEC1CF0624A.htm

Compare to this:

Iraqi Red Crescent relief convoys make their way to al-Fallujah
to aid population, despite US obstruction.

An official spokesman for the Iraqi Red Crescent reported
that the IRC sent three relief convoys into al-Fallujah on
Monday. The convoys carried medical and nutritional
materials, blankets and bedspreads in order to give
the residents of the city some protection against the intense
cold that strikes Iraq at this time of year.

Firdaws al-‘Ibadi told Mafkarat al-Islam in Baghdad that the
IRC also opened two centers inside al-Fallujah, the first in
the al-Hadrah Mosque, and the second in the home of
Shaykh Khalaf ash-Shadid al-‘Isawi located in the ash-
Shurtah neighborhood. Nutritional supplies that are sent into
the city will be available in those two centers. -IRR