Wanted to send this from Plenty friends who were in Iraq just
recently.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1189395,00.html>
>We are asking everyone in the United States to call their elected
>representatives at the Capitol switchboard, 202-225-3121 and
>President Bush at 202-456-1111 or 456-1112, and everyone living
>outside of the US to ask the US embassy in their home country to
>enact an immediate ceasefire of the US military's operations in
>Falluja. According to eyewitness reports there is a terrible
>massacre taking place in Falluja, and Iraqi civilians are caught in
>the desert with no place to go while the hospitals of Falluja have
>filled up with the dead and the dying. The Guardian newspaper
>reported today that the estimated death toll of Iraqis from this
>violence in Falluja is over 450 and the number of injured over 1,000.
>
>The following is part of an urgent appeal from Ewa Jasiewicz, who
>worked with Voices in the Wilderness and Occupation Watch in Iraq,
>lived there for 8 months (Basra and Baghdad) and in Palestine,
>mainly Jenin camp for 6 months, speaks Arabic, and who got back from
>Iraq 2 months ago. She is in regular contact with her friends in
>Basra and Baghdad. In the chaos of war it is difficult sometimes to
>tell exactly what is happening, so please be understanding of the
>unconfirmed nature of some parts of this report. In response to such
>an urgent situation we feel that calling on the US goverment
>immediately for a real ceasefire is the best possible short-term
>response.
>
>"I just spoke to friends in Baghdad - Paola Gaspiroli, Italian, from
>Occupation watch and Bridges to Baghdad, Journalist Leigh Gordon,
>England, (NUJ, Tribune, Mail on Sunday) and a Palestinian friend
>with family in Falluja and friends in the Iraqi Islamic Party. Both
>he and Leigh have been ferrying out the injured from Falluja to
>Baghdad for the past three days. Ambulances have been barred from
>entry into the blood-drenched city. Here is their news, which they
>told me over the telephone tonight (Friday 9th)"
>
>Paola:
>
>"There has been a massacre in Falluga. Falluga is under siege. 470
>people have been killed, and 1700 injured. There has been no
>ceasefire. They (Americans) told people to leave, said they have 8
>hours to leave and people began to leave but they're trapped in the
>Desert. The Americans have been bombing with B52s (Confirmed also by
>Leigh in an email three days ago). Bridges to Baghdad are pulling
>out. We have flights booked out of Amman. Tomorow a team will go to
>Sadr City to deliver medicines. 50 people have been killed there.
>
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