E&P: Latest From McClatchy's Iraqi Staffers - "Fallujah: The City of Cemeteries"

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Latest from McClatchy's Iraqi Staffers: The 'City of Cemeteries'

By E&P Staff

Published: June 15, 2007 10:15 AM ET

NEW YORK For several weeks, E&P has been featuring frank and often disturbing blog entries by McClatchy's Iraqi correspondents and staffers from their site, Inside Iraq. The writers' full names are not listed due to security concerns.

Here is the latest, on the continuing crisis in Fallujah, from a frequent poster, correspondent "Dulaimey."
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The following is too long to read but I beg you; please save five minutes of your time and read it.

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The city is under siege. You can not go in only through certain checkpoints with a badge issued by the marines. The main soccer field in the city is now a cemetery. The only amusement park in the city was looted and destroyed; its trees were used by the locals to bake their bread. Now the former amusement park is intended to be the next cemetery.

Instead of being the city of mosques it will be the city of cemeteries and this will be another achievement of the invasion that residents of Fallujah will remember through generations. Please don’t let that happen. Don’t give extremists more arguments and evidences to fuel anger and to deceive and recruit young men with them.

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People can not understand how great armed forces, like the U.S.army and marines, can not help restoring electricity, water not even cell phones so people can cooperate with the authorities at least. Please don’t let the people remember your country in this way; making cities full with cemeteries more than it is already (some people in Fallujah buried their sons in their home gardens in 2004).

It is unfair to my people in Fallujah. It is unfair thing to do to the mothers of the soldiers who thought that they are sending their beloved sons to help millions of Iraqis. It is unfair thing to do to the good American citizens that I knew and met.

Please help not to change the name of Fallujah to the city of cemeteries.

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here's the link for the full blog entry:
http://washingtonbureau.typepad.com/iraq/2007/06/fallujah.html