Robert Fisk - Atrocity In Fallujah

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Robert Fisk

April 01, 2004 "The Independent" -- "The bodies were hanging upside down on each side of the bridge. They had no hands, no feet, one had no head." My old Iraqi friend had been driving into Fallujah just after the massacre, the stoning, the burning. He was shaking as he told me what he saw. "They were hanging upside down above the highway, on the old railway bridge which bridge, now a road bridge. The people of Fallujah were just driving over the bridge as if nothing was happening, right past the bodies." The bridge is on the west side of the Sunni Muslim city, across the Euphrates river, and the corpses had been tied to the girders about six feet above the road. "When we left, there were no helicopters, no police, no soldiers, it all seemed quite normal; except for the bodies. They were burnt brown. I couldn't tell if they were men or women."

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Robert Fisk - Atrocity in Fallujah

[bobbieinok]

1. further quotes from the article - had not heard this before

In fact, there were four Western men slaughtered in Fallujah yesterday - all contractors for the Americans, some apparently armed - and they had been dragged from their cars, mutilated, stoned, burnt, beaten with iron pipes. One of them was decapitated, then dragged through the streets behind a car. What the Anglo-American occupation power later called a "particularly brutal" crime - a somewhat restrained comment in the face of such barbarity - was all too real on the videotapes filmed by Iraqi camera crews in Fallujah but which were not shown on Western television stations last night.

Another man gave a chilling description of how the men were dragged from their car, begging for their lives. "They had gasoline splashed on them and were set alight," he said

[VolcanoJen]

3. Initially, it was reported that 8 contractors were in that car.

Would someone please set me straight on this? I've searched high and low, and if there were others, I'm interested in discovering how they escaped, and to where.

Am I the only one who heard that more were attacked?

[saigon68]

4. A bad day for mercenaries

I was outside one Western television office in Baghdad yesterday, observing yet another concrete wall being erected around it. Armed Iraqi militiamen stood at every corner of the compound and British security men were on guard inside. If Mr Bremer's old presidential palace with its triumphal gateway now resembles the seat of the old British Raj, the office I visited was beginning to look like those fading photos of the British residency at Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny. For this is what we have now come to in Baghdad: foreigners on the run.

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[saigon68]

7. like this one

http://www.iraqwar.ru/show_image.php?id=1131&thumb=1

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[aquart]

10. Oh, no. No, I hadn't heard that.

Now it's an atrocity in my mind. When I thought they were mutilating the dead, I didn't much care, they'd killed them already. But this...is nightmares.

[bobbieinok]

2. self-deleted - please read the rest of the article

[mobuto]

6. Robert Fisk: The Americans are nowhere near Baghdad

Anybody remember that little masturbatory fantasy of his, from a year ago?

This man has an accuracy record rivaling Dick Morris'.

Have either of the two ever been about anything? Ever?

He could say "hello," and he'd probably be wrong.

[JoFerret]

9. It's times like this when we need

Robert Fisk and his experience and perspective.
"If Mr Bremer's old presidential palace with its triumphal gateway now resembles the seat of the old British Raj, the office I visited was beginning to look like those fading photos of the British residency at Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny. For this is what we have now come to in Baghdad: foreigners on the run."

[mmm]

11. Damn he is good.

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