Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Voices and Images from Falluja
Charles Bukowski says: “As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.”
To that list, we can add “battlefields.”
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An AP Photographer in Falluja says:
“I decided to swim ... but I changed my mind after seeing U.S. helicopters firing on and killing people who tried to cross the river.’’ He watched horrified as a family of five was shot dead as they tried to cross. Then, he “helped bury a man by the river bank, with my own hands.’’
Complete story here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4614717,00.html
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An Iraqi nurse treats 2-year-old child Mustafa Adnan, at a Baghdad hospital. The child lost a leg when his house in Falluja’s Jolan district was shelled.
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Doctor is haunted by siege of Fallujah:
“I saw the injured people on the street, covered in blood, staggering, screaming, shouting, ‘Help me! Help me!’ but we could not get out and help them because we would be killed.”
Complete story here:
http://snipurl.com/anmu
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Dahr Jamail: Dogs Eating Bodies in the Streets of Fallujah:
The military stopped the Red Crescent at the gates of the city and are not allowing them in. They allowed some bodies to be buried, but others are being eaten by dogs and cats in the streets, as reported by refugees just out of the city, as well as residents still trapped there.
Complete story here:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7293.htm
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FYI: $90 million of U.S. taxpayer money is already earmarked for U.S. corporations to rebuild Falluja.
(Thanks to Information Clearing House for the links above. Support ICH: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/)
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