Fallujah – In Cold Blood
Some people today claim that there is just too much information. We are unundated with counter-views all the time; and, in part, this is true. But, this is only part of the whole truth. Much of what we should know is not talked about in the popular media. A lot of what we hear or read from the popular media is full of nonsense and implies that which is quite untrue.
A lot of people just don’t care to know. A lot of fundamentalist leaning Christians, for example, say they don’t believe that they ‘are not of this world’ much like Christ was supposed to of said. But, I see them heddonistically enjoying the good life with beautiful homes and fancy cars; a lot of good stuff that really is of this world. Some claim they pray for the dead and dying Iraqis.
Yes, our population is too lazy to really care about the plight of ordinary people under the assault of mostly American military. Other people say that this is ‘just a part of war’ and sluff off the deaths like water off a duck’s back. They seem unable to care. Others, the ‘tough type’ who would own a powerful Pit Bull and strut the streets feeling full of power with his dog on a chain leash looking hungry proffess that we should ‘nuke’ Iraq, Iran, North Koria, Russia. Yes, tough talk from a poorly formed mind.
The truth is that the siege on the Holy City of Fallujah, also know as the City of Mosques, was planned mass murder. This is not an exaggeration!
As the siege was being readied the embedded reporters were advised to stay out of Fallujah and, being embedded journalists (1), they did. But some unembedded reporters went into the City of Fallujah and reported upon the truth that should have opened up the eyes of the world. But, like the Denmocrate led Congress the world just sat and watched these atrocities occur.
The siege of the Holy City of Fallujah began with four days straight of bombing. The American onslaught bombed out 70% of the city. Homes, businesses, mosques, museums, hospitals and more were razed by American bombs and untold thousands died. Many thousands of others were left homeless and without their businesses to provide for their families, they became refugees. There are now 5 million plus Iraqis refugees that are not being properly cared for. Others that stayed behind in homes that are now hovels with very little electricity, water, sewage and garbage removal and living with the intolerable stink of death. There is little food.
The America four days of bombing included the use of White Phosphorous. When this substance falls upon a person’s skin it burns; it burns right down to the bone. It is a horrid chemical! Can you imagine holding your child or loved-one as they screamed in agony with an unstoppable burning? Although White Phosphorous is not formally illegal we all know that the intentions of international treaties make it an illegal chemical in war.
With other conventional bombs the Americans used Carpet Bombs on the neighbourhoods of Fallujah. Carpet bombs are indescriminate in nature as they spread out over large areas. To use such bombs on neighbourhoods is an obvious attack upon civilians and, therefore, a prime war crime.
There are also reports of the American use of a ‘new type of napalm’ and the suggestions are strong the evidence has yet to arise.
After, the four days of bombing the Holy City of Fallujah the ground forces moved in with Free Fire Orders(2). And they basically shot everybody.
There were a couple of clinics open during the siege and an American reporter from Alaska was a one of them through the siege. His name is Dahr Jamail and you can find his video speeches on YouTube; http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dahr+jamail&search_type=&aq=0&oq=dahr+.
At one clinic casualties kept coming carrying their wounded. The hospitals were not open and there are reports of snipers on hospital roofs shooting at the wounded looking for help. Ambulances arrived at the clinic riddled with bullet holes and drivers unwilling to go out again. There was no electricity so emergency, life saving operations were done with the flickering light from cigarette lighters. There was no anesthetic so they had to physically hold down screaming patients to save their lives. There were no antibiotics so many sucommed to fever and infection. There was no water and no way to boil it to sterilize the surgical tools.
After the siege Fallujah was left with dead bodies rotting – children, teens, mothers, fathers and grandparents – in demolished and unhit homes and businesses and mosques. Many were partially eaten by marauding dogs. Flies and stench were everywhere.
Doctor Salam Ismael reported – “In Saqlawiya, one of the makeshift refugee camps that surround Fallujah, we found a 17 year old woman. “I am Hudda Fawzi Salam Issawi from the Jolan district of Fallujah,” she told me. “Five of us, including a 55 year old neighbour, were trapped together in our house in Fallujah when the siege began.
“On 9 November American marines came to our house. My father and the neighbour went to the door to meet them. We were not fighters. We thought we had nothing to fear. I ran into the kitchen to put on my veil, since men were going to enter our house and it would be wrong for them to see me with my hair uncovered. “This saved my life. As my father and neighbour approached the door, the Americans opened fire on them. They died instantly.”
This is what Free Fire orders are about! This is indicative of what happened all over the Holy City of Fallujah.
“Me and my 13 year old brother hid in the kitchen behind the fridge. The soldiers came into the house and caught my older sister. They beat her. Then they shot her. But they did not see me. Soon they left, but not before they had destroyed our furniture and stolen the money from my father’s pocket.”
“Hudda told me how she comforted her dying sister by reading verses from the Koran. After four hours her sister died. For three days Hudda and her brother stayed with their murdered relatives. But they were thirsty and had only a few dates to eat. They feared the troops would return and decided to try to flee the city. But they were spotted by a US sniper.
Hudda was shot in the leg, her brother ran but was shot in the back and died instantly. “I prepared myself to die,” she told me. “But I was found by an American woman soldier, and she took me to hospital.” She was eventually reunited with the surviving members of her family.”
“I also found survivors of another family from the Jolan district. They told me that at the end of the second week of the siege the US troops swept through the Jolan. The Iraqi National Guard used loudspeakers to call on people to get out of the houses carrying white flags, bringing all their belongings with them. They were ordered to gather outside near the Jamah al-Furkan mosque in the centre of town.
On 12 November Eyad Naji Latif and eight members of his family-one of them a six month old child-gathered their belongings and walked in single file, as instructed, to the mosque.”
The stories abound. But, do you hear them on CNN, FOX, BBC, CBC etc. Of course not! These stories might make us need to think. But, the question still stands – Is the west able to consider these problems over that of the price of gas? It’s incredible that we would worry more about flaunting our oversized SUV rather than to let our lives be invaded by thoughts of Iraqis being murdered in cold blood.
RC
When they reached the main road outside the mosque they heard a shout, but they could not understand what was being shouted. Eyad told me it could have been “now” in English. Then the firing began. US soldiers appeared on the roofs of surrounding houses and opened fire. Eyad’s father was shot in the heart and his mother in the chest.
Embedded Journalists – wear military uniforms, go where the military tells them, stays away when the military tells them, sees what the military allows then, and reports what the military tells them.
Free Fire Orders – basically say shoot anybody. Whether a baby or a granny.
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