Fallujah Residents Emerge, Find 'City of Mosques' in Ruins -WP

[Rose Siding]

FALLUJAH, Iraq, Nov. 17 -- The night the Americans came, Abu Saad hunkered in the little room at the back of his house in the center of the city, where he prayed that the bombs would not find him. He and his father, brother and nephew tried to drown the sound of the artillery with their prayers. Dear God, he chanted over and over, please protect us.
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After four days, Abu Saad heard voices outside, then the smash of the front door being broken down. In the back room, Iraqi security forces found Abu Saad and his relatives, alive, blinking in the light, relieved and praising God. As the Iraqi soldiers led Abu Saad out of his home, assuring him that he would be protected, he got a first glimpse of the rubble that was once his neighborhood. Stunned by the sight of crumbled concrete, damaged mosques and shops blistered by bullets and artillery shells during fighting between U.S. forces and insurgents, Abu Saad said he felt his heart break.

"This is the city of the mosques," he said on Wednesday at a yellow-brick school near his house. "I felt sad after I saw the city, the buildings. I feel sad even talking about it."

U.S. and Iraqi officials declared last weekend that the fight for Fallujah, which began on the night of Nov. 8, was over and that the city had been liberated............
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"It's not a humanitarian crisis," said Maj. Jim Orbock, a soldier with the Army's 445th Civil Affairs Battalion. "I think we have a decent handle on what's going on. As the civilians are coming out, we're feeding them. We have everything -- food, water."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58510-2004Nov17.html

[Maat]

1. How profoundly sad.

n/t

[whirlygigspin]

3. Hallelujia!

Good Christian work there. Makes ya proud, don't it?

[DS1]

8. Hallefallujah?

:evilfrown:

[DELUSIONAL]

2. So after all the killing -- now the soldiers are going to play nice?

This is so wrong -- really sick -- but the US general public is too damned dumb to know the difference between right and wrong. The poor slobs have been lied to for so long . . .

I wonder if they have one of bushie's shit eating grins on the stuff they are handing out to the shell shocked Falluja residence -- see he is the one you need to bow down to -= blessed be to bush -- he's the one who talks to god -- and god told him to bomb the crap out of Falluja.

[RyomaSakamoto]

4. were are the all the pictures from our embeds?

anyone gotta link?

or are we really that powerful at supressing history :scared:

[RyomaSakamoto]

10. how bout pictures before the destruction?

or have they all been censored :cry:

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. " We have everything -- food, water"

After turning the city to a pile of rubble and killing who knows how many people. I am not proud of this country. The rebels will be right back next week.

[daleo]

6. "It's not a humanitarian crisis," said Maj. Jim Orbock

They just destroyed a city is all.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Wot da hell?

Dey ain't cristshuns

[Erika]

9. Utterly Unforgiveable

But Bush's Christian (not) Mullahs are smiling. I feel so badly for what we've done to the Iraqi people for no reason. I feel so badly that Bushco used our kids to do this. It is so sick.


We've liberated the Iraqis just like we did the American Indians.

God have mercy on us.