How The U.S. Murdered a City

[Dangerman]

Shocking article about the truth in Fallujah:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8093.htm

[RBHam]

1. excerpt:

On 12 November Eyad Naji Latif and eight members of his family-one of them a six month old child-gathered their belongings and walked in single file, as instructed, to the mosque.

When they reached the main road outside the mosque they heard a shout, but they could not understand what was being shouted. Eyad told me it could have been "now" in English. Then the firing began. US soldiers appeared on the roofs of surrounding houses and opened fire. Eyad's father was shot in the heart and his mother in the chest.

They died instantly. Two of Eyad's brothers were also hit, one in the chest and one in the neck. Two of the women were hit, one in the hand and one in the leg. Then the snipers killed the wife of one of Eyad's brothers. When she fell her five year old son ran to her and stood over her body. They shot him dead too. Survivors made desperate appeals to the troops to stop firing.

But Eyad told me that whenever one of them tried to raise a white flag they were shot. After several hours he tried to raise his arm with the flag. But they shot him in the arm. Finally he tried to raise his hand. So they shot him in the hand.

The five survivors, including the six month old child, lay in the street for seven hours. Then four of them crawled to the nearest home to find shelter. The next morning the brother who was shot in the neck also managed to crawl to safety. They all stayed in the house for eight days, surviving on roots and one cup of water, which they saved for the baby. On the eighth day they were discovered by some members of the Iraqi National Guard and taken to hospital in Fallujah. They heard the Americans were arresting any young men, so the family fled the hospital and finally obtained treatment in a nearby town.

[RBHam]

2. I admire your graphic, Dangerman...

A quote I've always remembered, burned into my brain by my WW II-veteran Grade 11 History teacher..."never again!"

[no name no slogan]

3. What a splendid little war

I've seen similar accounts to this one of the destruction of Fallujah. I wish more people that say we need to "finish the job" in Iraq would read this story.

Is this REALLY a job that should be "finished"?

IIRC, Fallujah is a town that's roughly the same size in area and population as St. Paul, Minnesota-- a couple hundred thousand people. There is no way in HELL that anybody could have completely evacuated the city before the seige began.

Fallujah will become this generation's Guernica.

[Imalittleteapot]

4. This disturbing article

should be read by every American citizen. The Iraqi people will never forgive us.

[no name no slogan]

5. kick (nt)