Fallujah residents tell of reign of terror by insurgents

[cali]

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 11/19/04 | Margaret Coker


FALLUJAH, Iraq — Until U.S. forces overran and pummeled it into submission over the past two weeks, Fallujah was a death zone of clandestine prisons and human slaughterhouses operated by shadowy militiamen whose reign of terror now grips other parts of Iraq.
<snip>
Mutilated and bloated corpses of Iraqi civilians were hidden in courtyards, piled in back bedrooms or stuffed down public wells. In two makeshift prisons and several "execution rooms" discovered by U.S. troops, there was evidence of how dozens of people had been shot and left to rot or bleed to death from wounds.
<snip>
The aims of the militias, some led by local strongmen and others by foreign "holy warriors," are mixed. Many want to expel U.S. and other foreign military forces. Others simply want to profit from the lucrative hostage-taking business that has flourished with the anarchy since Saddam Hussein's regime fell.
<snip>
After hearing screams and moaning from the back of the house, Marines kicked in the front door to find demolished rooms and trails of blood leading to an improvised, three-cell jail where they found two mutilated corpses and two emaciated Iraqis
The savagery in Fallujah apparently grew partly out of a code of vigilante justice authorized by the Mujahadeen Shura, an unofficial town council established months ago as the insurgents tightened their hold on this city of 250,000. Punishment for alleged breaches of strict religious laws was meted out by the leaders of roving packs of masked men who controlled the streets.
The bodies were face-down in rows or piled atop one another in bedrooms and living rooms of the houses where fighters had once holed up. Six of the bodies were without feet — evidence of attempts to prevent their prisoners from fleeing while they were still alive.


------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yes, the US invasion set off a terrible chain of events, but no it's not so simple as the insurgents are just fighting to get the US out.

[Moderator]

1. Please post a link and trim the article to four paragraphs.

As per DU posting and Copyright rules.

Thank you.
Moderator

[cali]

3. Sorry, will do

[okieinpain]

2. understood, I thought that was why jr.'s pops didn't want to go into

iraq.

[okieinpain]

4. "These people were real sickos." and it's only going to get worse.

[wurzel]

5. How come we know all this but don't know what happens in our own jails?

[PunkPop]

7. Strange isn't it?

The details of their brutality is presented in living color complete with time, date, place and quotes from witnesses. On the other hand, let's see how much detail WE get from the msm about the mosque attack where 3 people were shot by US/Iraqi troops during Friday prayers.

[PunkPop]

6. I still don't see a link.

?

[rooboy]

8. Wow. By the sounds of this brutality...

Falluja could have easily been run by the Americans.

[colonel odis]

9. granted, this paints a disgusting and sick picture. but we should

never ("we" meaning america) be in a position where we're the lesser of two evils.

the losers in all this are the iraqi people. you've got crazy americans on one side, blasting everything in their paths. then when you try to hide from them, you fall into the arms of the terrorists.

if you cooperate with the terrorists, you wind up in abu-grab-ass (even that definition of cooperation is rumsfeld's). if you cooperate with the americans, your family is disembowelled in the town square.

before the war, iraq was the most westernized of the arab countries. with a high literacy rate and a comparatively highly educated populace. now it's a festering cesspool. all because george w. bush had an agenda.

makes you want to throw up.

[uhhuh]

10. That sounds horrible

like throwing babies out of incubators, or putting people feet first into plastic shredders.

They must have documented these atrocities with pictures or video somewhere,right?

[puddycat]

11. I do believe this is CIA propaganda to make * look good.

Since * has purged the CIA of all dissenters, it should be easier and easier to manufacture this kind of garbage.

[__Inanna__]

12. Cali, where is the link?

anytime someone posts something so horrific, a link must accompany it.

If not, I do not believe it.

[Moderator]

13. Locked for lack of link.

n/t