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To: RealMuLan who wrote (56036)	11/16/2004 7:55:46 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

The other face of 'success' By Dahr Jamail BAGHDAD - Everyone saw it coming, only the US forces did not: humanitarian disaster in Fallujah, and stronger resistance against US and allied occupying forces all around Iraq. The real face of the "success" of the US military assault in Fallujah is now beginning to present itself. Thousands of families remain trapped inside Fallujah with no food, clean water or medical assistance. No one can say how many of the 1,200 "rebels" US forces claim to have killed inside Fallujah are civilians, or whether the death toll is higher. The Iraqi Red Crescent Society, which is supported by the Red Cross and the United Nations Children's Fund has called the situation in Fallujah a "big disaster". The Iraqi Red Crescent has several teams of relief workers and doctors, and truckloads of food waiting for authorization from the US-backed interim government and the US military, but they have not been allowed in. The International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) has expressed grave concern for the civilians left in the city. "All those taking part in the combat have a responsibility to spare civilians and give access to the wounded," ICRC spokesman Rana Sidani said in a statement. ... People in Fallujah had been left helpless, he said. "Anyone who left their house would either be shot by American snipers or recruited by the mujahideen," he said. "So we stayed inside most of the time and prayed. The more the bombs exploded the more we prayed and cried." Ahmed says he did not expect to survive. "Every night we said goodbye to one another because we expected to die," he said. "You could see areas where all the houses were flattened, there was just nothing left. We could get water at times, but there was no electricity ever." US forces had bombed families in their homes, he said. "Even those of us who do not fight, we are suffering so much because of the US bombs and tanks. Can't they see this is turning so many people against them?" ... atimes.com ============================== Seems to me that there is an issue here of "forced recruitment" by the mujahideen, but then got killed as "insurgents" by the US troops. God knows how many of those 1,200 dead were like this?