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FROM: http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=25796
Iraqis
Warn US Killings Will Breed Terror
Reuters
FALLUJA, Iraq, 2 May
2003 — Twenty bullet holes in the windscreen, another eight in
the roof and at least four more in the blood-soaked driver’s seat
of the rusty taxi fuel the hatred in 14-year-old Ahmed Muthana’s
dark brown eyes. The Iraqi schoolboy with short-cropped hair and an
unblinking stare stands erect by the car and clutches a tunic red all
over from the dried blood of his uncle, shot dead by US troops at an
anti-American demonstration in Falluja.
“I hate Americans,”
he said. “I want revenge. I will wait, I will join a group, and,
one day, I will kill Americans,” Muthanna said yesterday.
On Monday, his father was wounded in the leg as he shepherded his seven
children inside their home in front of the demonstration. Muthana’s
uncle was trying to reach the house to drive the boy’s father to
hospital when the bullets raked his orange and white cab.
Muthanna said he now
wanted to join Al-Qaeda because he admired Osama Bin Laden, the network’s
leader and alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks on America. The
United States invaded Iraq to eliminate what it called the direct threat
of Saddam Hussein but its first pre-emptive war worried many governments
around the world that it would stoke anti-American anger in the Middle
East.
Many residents of Falluja,
a Sunni Muslim city of about 270,000 people, said they would turn their
anger into revenge attacks against the US soldiers who have killed at
least 15 people at demonstrations this week. Late on Wednesday, seven
US soldiers were wounded in a grenade attack at their base in the city
which had seen little violence in the three-week war.
Like most residents,
Hinda Majid, a 29-year-old housewife, said she was glad Saddam was gone
after decades of brutal repression. But now the US “occupation”
had led to her neighbors’ deaths she felt like a Palestinian under
Israeli rule. Sitting in her living room
where two bullets had pierced the window and flown above the cot of
her seven-day-old niece, she vowed to become a suicide bomber. “I
will strap explosives to my chest to get rid of them,” she said.
US automatic rifle and
machine-gun fire pot-marked the homes of five other families in the
street, where demonstrators demanded the US troops vacate a school they
had occupied as part of their takeover of the city. Thirteen Iraqis
were killed on Monday. Two days later, two Iraqis were killed when US
soldiers opened fire in a similar incident in Falluja, 50 km west of
Baghdad.
The US military said
its troops were shot at first in both incidents but Iraqi witnesses
said the shootings were unprovoked. “Everyone here was happy at
first that the Americans threw out Saddam,” Ibrahim Hamad a retired
soldier said. “But these killings will make all our children go
off with Bin Laden.”
And in Mosul, after using
its Black Hawk helicopters cautiously in the war against Iraq, the US
Army is now flying them in and out of cramped urban areas to restore
order. It is not a risk-free strategy. The UH-60 Black Hawks are quick
and agile but they are also vulnerable to attack from the ground, as
the US military discovered to its cost in Somalia a decade ago.
The Black Hawks buzzed
low over the northern city of Mosul this week, dropping ground troops
into densely populated areas and at main intersections to break up black
market fuel operations. The powerful rotor wash throws up dirt and debris
as the helicopters land, sending civilians, donkeys and goats scurrying
away. Black marketers also ran away, only to be chased down and forced
to stop by the Black Hawks within a few hundred yards.
“Anyone on the ground
who is doing something illegal is going to be thinking ‘...I can’t
get away from them’,” says Capt. Daniel Morgan, a company
commander of the 101st Airborne Division. With a bird’s eye view
of the city, the Black Hawks can spot black market operations over large
areas and swoop in quickly onto nearby fields or patches of wasteland.
The troops jump off and fan out to dismantle the black market and check
IDs of traders, warning them they will be arrested if caught again.
The Black Hawks circle
overhead, providing fire support to the soldiers, and drop down again
to pick them up and fly on. “I don’t want to say ‘intimidation’,
but it is a sight to see two Black Hawks hovering over you,” said
Staff Sgt. William Clark, who led his platoon in a series of the raids
in Mosul. For some, it was a wonderful sight too. As children ran around
heavily armed US soldiers, one boy of about eight years old stood still,
his mouth wide open in awe as the Black Hawks circled low overhead.
Until now, the Black
Hawks have had a limited role in the Iraq campaign while AH-64 Apache
attack helicopters and OH-58 Kiowa Warriors made decisive contributions
in some battles. The Black Hawks transported troops around the country
but were used carefully in dropping soldiers into combat, leaving them
well outside urban areas and away from enemy positions.
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