http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1046792&mesg_id=1046792Please nominate the above thread for front page.
It's basically a news story about turning fallujah into the warsaw ghetto of the 21st century, as so aptly described by the original poster of that thread.
This is the scariest, most freaky story I have seen since bush stole the white house in 2000.
Couple of clips:
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/12/05/returning_fallujans_will_face_clampdown/Returning Fallujans will face clampdown
By Anne Barnard, Globe Staff | December 5, 2004
FALLUJAH, Iraq -- The US military is drawing up plans to keep insurgents from regaining control of this battle-scarred city, but returning residents may find that the measures make Fallujah look more like a police state than the democracy they have been promised.
Under the plans, troops would funnel Fallujans to so-called citizen processing centers on the outskirts of the city to compile a database of their identities through DNA testing and retina scans. Residents would receive badges displaying their home addresses that they must wear at all times. Buses would ferry them into the city, where cars, the deadliest tool of suicide bombers, would be banned.
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One idea that has stirred debate among Marine officers would require all men to work, for pay, in military-style battalions. Depending on their skills, they would be assigned jobs in construction, waterworks, or rubble-clearing platoons.
"You have to say, 'Here are the rules,' and you are firm and fair. That radiates stability," said Lieutenant Colonel Dave Bellon, intelligence officer for the First Regimental Combat Team, the Marine regiment that took the western half of Fallujah during the US assault and expects to be based downtown for some time.
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