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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 02:55 AM
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IRAQ: Focus on situation in Fallujah
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/f8b4513c2b94cb523c680f0bf0216a9d.htm

FALLUJAH, 17 February (IRIN) - With a few winter clothes and blankets, Abu Mussab and his family remain encamped outside Fallujah waiting for a decision from the government in relation to their home, which was destroyed during fierce battles between US troops and insurgents in the city some 60 km from the capital, Baghdad.

Mussab is just one of hundreds of families displaced after the fighting, which started in November and lasted nearly three months. His home and those of thousands of others were flattened and the city still does not have basic facilities, according to aid agencies.

Ahmed Rawi, a spokesman for the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC), told IRIN that the situation of internally displaced people (IDPs) from Fallujah was critical, requiring a huge quantity of supplies.

He explained that there were also problems in distributing the monthly food ration.

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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 03:53 AM
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1. "Freedom & Democracy" tm coming to YOUR nation!
We'll reduce your country to rubble, and create a spawning ground for what you never had before...TERRORISTS!

Select cities will be Falluja'ed, at no extra charge!

All-inclusive services include killing your kids! Raping your sister and daughter!

Sports such as water-boarding and hide-the-broomstick can be arranged.

*Food, clothing, shelter, heating, etc not included.

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natrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 09:27 AM
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4. plus as an added extra
we will use toxic agents and make our soldiers as well lots of you sick but that's classified....pay no attention to the loads of dirt being trucked out
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 10:17 AM
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7. WOW! FREE toxic dirt! Don't DeLay! Order now!
:D
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Briar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 06:22 AM
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2. And what is the US response?
Make a Hollywood movie glorifying the marines who caused this atrocity.
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 09:20 AM
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3. and the real story of Fallujah has yet to be told - only bits and pieces
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jmcgowanjm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 09:55 AM
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5. Remember the US saying Fallujah was empty before we attacked?
RAY SUAREZ: Well, do you have to look at this in both near
term and longer term time frames? Right now, Fallujah is
in ruins and it's virtually empty.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec04/fallujah_11-19.html

Before and during the battles, two-thirds of the city's
population was said to have fled, according to aid
agencies.

Yep, the only people left were Satanic.
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jmcgowanjm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 09:57 AM
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6. US withdraws from positions northwest of al-Fallujah.
IRR 021705

US forces on Thursday morning completed their withdrawal
from their camp in the agricultural area northwest of al-
Fallujah. The correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam in the city
said that the at-Tallah area, located one kilometer
from as-Saqlawiyah, was the last place evacuated by the
US troops Thursday morning.

US forces also withdrew from command posts at the
Eastern Bridge, and the Japanese Bridge, as well as the al-
Bu Shahab Bridge.

The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent watched as local
people gathered up some of the tents left by the
departing American troops.

The correspondent reported that there is no longer any
US presence northwest of al-
Fallujah.

American forces had come under several heavy strikes by
the Resistance that left the US al-Haykal base east
of as-Saqlawiyah totally destroyed. The American
occupation forces also lost several command posts around
the city in the course of fighting, allowing local people
more freedom of movement.

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