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FROM: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030606/wl_
mideast_afp/iraq_unrest_town&cid=1514&ncid=1478
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Nearly 1 year on - the events in the first 10 days of April 2004 has
seen over 880 Iraqi dead in Fallujah.
Bush started it between 20 Mch 2003 and the date of this report on 6
Jun 2003. As Nahaf al-Diaji prophesied - "We
have not even started attacking them yet," he vows. "This
is just the beginning." - Consistent with warnings given
by TVOTW well prior to 20 Mch 2003 and ignored by the world's mass media
- none of it will stop until Bush/Blair are
stopped!!]
Mideast - AFP
In Iraqi town, misery and despair
add to hatred of US troops
Fri Jun 6, 7:09 AM ET
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FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFP)
- Qassem Hasnawi watches the US soldiers roaring through Fallujah day
after day with their armoured vehicles and machine guns and only thinks
about one thing -- how much he wants to spill
their blood.
"Imagine
how an Iraqi man feels when he sees a foreigner touching his sister,"
he says in the brutal summer heat of his roadside stand, where he works
16 hours a day selling local cigarettes for around 40 cents a pack.
"We
can never accept it. I swear to God, I want to kill them all."
About an hour west of
Baghdad, the conservative Sunni Muslim town is filthy, run-down and
desolate. Children, shoeless and unwashed,
beg in the streets or hustle drivers for a handout to "guard"
their parked cars.
Old men dressed in rags
kneel on the pavement in diagonal lines, just to keep in the thin shadow
cast by the electricity poles.
But
in addition to the despair, Fallujah is simmering with rage
two months into the US military occupation of Iraq (news - web sites).
The hatred of the
occupation has erupted in two deadly attacks in the last two weeks,
the latest on Thursday when an assailant shot a rocket-propelled grenade
at a convoy, killing one US soldier and wounding five.
In many ways, the city
has become emblematic of the complex tangle of problems facing the US-led
coalition. Ever since 16 people were shot dead
here by US forces in April, the troops in Fallujah can do
nothing right.
Patrols come under regular
fire from Iraqis armed with the flood of weapons available since Saddam
Hussein (news - web sites) was toppled, which in turn has left the soldiers
edgy and much less friendly.
While the Americans say
they want to let Iraqis run their own affairs as soon as possible, they
have poured more than 1,000 extra troops in and around the city in the
past few days to try to clamp down on the unrest.
And although the coalition
says it is waging a "hearts and minds" campaign to win over
the public, the residents of Fallujah angrily insist that peace
will come only once the US soldiers have packed up and left.
"They wave their
guns in our faces and they insult us," says Uday Beldi Edan, a
wizened 52-year-old shouting to be heard above the crowd of people voicing
their rage.
"The Americans are
humiliating us on purpose. They touch and search our women. We
should resist them, and we will."
For the Americans, frisking
women during house-to-house searches for weapons and attackers is a
normal part of security. For the people of
Fallujah, it is a horror beyond description.
The word on the street
is that US troops fly helicopters over the city at night just to spy
on the women sleeping on rooftops to beat the heat indoors, and that
they use binoculars to stare at them inside their houses.
Residents also say US
troops sometimes urinate in full view of women, mocking Islamic sensitivities.
But the anger in Fallujah
goes far beyond the treatment of its women.
Many of its men were
soldiers in the Iraqi army, which has been disbanded by the US-led coalition.
Their new unemployment has added to the city's misery.
Residents deny they still
hold allegiance to Saddam but according to the coalition, pockets of
loyalty to the old regime are dotted around the area.
The combination of suffering
and outrage -- and what seems to be an endless supply of guns and rocket-propelled
grenades -- surely spells more bloodshed to come for the US troops.
"Every time you
go out, there is a 50-50 chance you will get shot up," says Private
First Class Raymond Mickler, speaking from an armoured Humvee with a
machine gun mounted and loaded. "We just have to be real careful."
Nahaf al-Diaji, another
resident, warns the Americans have yet to taste
Fallujah's full fury.
"We
have not even started attacking them yet," he vows. "This
is just the beginning."
FROM: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030606/wl_
mideast_afp/iraq_unrest_town&cid=1514&ncid=1478
