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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 06:06 AM
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Another US Success in Iraq......Fallujah is now "Little Saudi Arabia"!
Yep, chimpy*s successes in Iraq are impressive indeed... :eyes:


Extremism sweeping Iraq among Sunni, Shiite Muslims alike

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The city of Fallujah, for example, once a cornerstone of Saddam Hussein's secular rule, has become a seething no-man's land of Islamic militancy where women must be veiled, alcohol sellers are flogged and an American passport is a death sentence.

Since U.S. Marines pulled out in May after a month-long siege, a mix of homegrown guerrillas and foreign holy warriors have taken over Fallujah, now nicknamed "Little Saudi Arabia" for its extremist brand of Sunni Islam.

"You go there and see the mujahedeen at the checkpoints," said a co-worker of three Lebanese men who were taken hostage, then murdered, in Fallujah last week. "Where are the Marines? Where is the Iraqi army?"

The three were hog-tied and beaten with steel pipes. Then one man was shot several times in the face, another was disemboweled and the third was hacked to pieces, said surviving hostages and other workers at their Lebanese-owned contracting firm.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/8926931.htm

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