The main soccer field in the city is now a cemetery. The only amusement park in the city was looted

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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.

After the invasion in 2003 the city of Fallujah is not any more known to Iraqis as the city of the best Kabab in the country or the city that has one of the few Iraqi beautiful tourism cities or its many mosques… it is known for resistance and terrorism.

Dramatic changes took place in the city. The city prefers to ally with the American troops rather than with Al Qaeda.

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. snip

You will ask me why the people don’t demonstrate and demand their rights. My answer is:

The city is under marshal laws and people have to demonstrate by the approval of the military, which is not approved usually. And the most important reason the people here still remember what happened in April 2003, when two demonstrations were faced by fire and led to all these problems. People are afraid and oppressed by every one; Al Qaeda is killing them, the Shiit- led government look to them as Sunnis not Iraqis, the Americans look to them as Saddam loyalists and their bitter enemy.

Will some one please look at them as humans?

[montanacowboy]

1. But didn't Gen Betrayus just tell us

how many wonderful soccer fields and amusement parks there are? how fuckin great life is in Iraq?

[flyarm]

2. I look at them as humans..and my heart cries for them....and aches for them!! eom

[flyarm]

3. K&R!!

[ixion]

4. yep, that's my 'problem', so to speak... I consider all human beings humans

and as such entitled to all courtesies I would therefore extend to my neighbor.

I have a BIG problem with killing people, no matter who is killing who or what rationale is being used to do so.

[KG]

5. more of that good news the liberal press won't tell us?

[KG]

6. also you'd think a site called 'publishers and editors' would know the term is 'martial' law

not 'marshal' :eyes:

[brokensymmetry]

7. Wonder who has won their hearts and minds?

Bet it wasn't the U.S.

K&R.

[Mabus]

8. and they're still wondering what part they played in 9/11

The whole situation is so mucked up it is beyond my ability to find an adequate word to describe it. We have screwed up so many innocent families. People who were just minding their own business and do about the same things we do in our day-to-day lives.