Most Fallujah dead are women and children, journalists barred

[Postman]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/121b671d950efc3ac031b54b55118d85.htm

snip:
According to al-Iyssaue, the hospital emergency team has recovered more than 700 bodies from rubble where houses and shops once stood, adding that more than 550 were women and children. He said a very small number of men were found in these places and most were elderly.

Doctors at the hospital claim that many bodies had been found in a mutilated condition, some without legs or arms. Two babies were found at their homes, who are believed to have died from malnutrition, according to a specialist at the hospital.

Al-Iyssaue added these numbers were only from nine neighbourhoods of the city and that 18 others had not yet been reached, as they were waiting for help from the Iraqi Red Crescent Society (IRCS) to make it easier for them to enter.

[bpilgrim]

1. the silence is deafening

:cry:

peace

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. I cry

for those who are suffering now, and tremble for the effects this horror is having in the hearts of the people over there-and over here.

[SariesNightly]

3. The Prime Military Doctrine

Out of sight, out of mind.

That's what Fox does, sanitize war to the extent that it looks like the Superbowl of Glorious Freedom.

[Demit]

4. I wonder if it's OUR journalists who are trying to get in to report.

more from the Reuters' story:

"The US troops are saying that soon Fallujah will be rebuilt. I believe that this city won't offer a minimum of living conditions until another year has passed. I am still searching for what they have been calling democracy," Muhammad Kubaissy, a civilian from Fallujah, told IRIN. His home and two shops were destroyed in the fighting.

"They came to bring us freedom, but all Iraqis are now prisoners in their own homes," he added.

...

Residents of Fallujah have been asking the Iraqi government to allow journalists and TV reporters to enter the city in order to show the reality.

The government will only allow journalists to visit with a special identity card, saying it is for their own safety. Many journalists have been turned away from Fallujah after not receiving authorisation from US-troops guarding the city."


Years from now people will say "But we didn't KNOW any of this..." What a crime.

[cornermouse]

5. Ironic and interesting.

The juxtaposition of the way we refused to medical personnel into Fallujah and while sending Marines, hospital ships, and eventually, money to help the tsunami victims.

Somehow I don't believe the Arab world will ignore it or forget it either. Another exercise in futility by the Bush administration.

[bpilgrim]

6. kick

i'm getting sick of all the 'kooky' threads when there are real crimes being committed in our name.

peace

[hansolsen]

7. This nation no longer has a free press. Anyone without the Internet

would be better informed with a short wave radio than they are by MSM.