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http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/10603220.htm~snip~
Like Kareem, most returnees are sent by family members who themselves cannot yet bear to see their ravaged town. The militants who intimidated them into obedience are now replaced by gruff U.S. soldiers who take their fingerprints and scan their eyes.
Many Iraqis contend that in their attempt to quash the insurgency, U.S. troops may have only strengthened its ranks, creating a generation so inflamed by the assault that they take up arms.
`In the coming days, there will be suicide attacks on that town. They will use the same methods as the Hamas movement,'' said Salman al-Jumaili, a Baghdad University professor, insurgency expert and Al-Fallujah native.
Nadhim Jassour agreed. A professor of international relations at Baghdad University, Jassour said, ``The Americans were mistaken in their calculations. . . . They must understand that revenge is an Arab characteristic.''
Outside the town, hundreds of Al-Fallujah citizens stood in a long passage created by strings of barbed wire. At the end of the line, a U.S. soldier sat at a table with an interpreter and asked people for name and marital status, then took all 10 fingerprints. People also were told to look into a box, which scanned their retinas.
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