Journalists tell of US Falluja killings

[NMDemDist2]

All is quiet in Falluja, or at least that is how it seems, given that the mainstream media has largely forgotten about the Iraqi city. But independent journalists are risking life and limb to bring out a very different story.

The picture they are painting is of US soldiers killing whole families, including children, attacks on hospitals and doctors, the use of napalm-like weapons and sections of the city destroyed.

One of the few reporters who has reached Falluja is American Dahr Jamail of the Inter Press Service. He interviewed a doctor who had filmed the testimony of a 16-year-old girl.

"She stayed for three days with the bodies of her family who were killed in their home. When the soldiers entered she was in her home with her father, mother, 12 year-old brother and two sisters.

She watched the soldiers enter and shoot her mother and father directly, without saying anything. They beat her two sisters, then shot them in the head. After this her brother was enraged and ran at the soldiers while shouting at them, so they shot him dead," Jamail relates.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6890A8DA-AF79-45AD-BB4F-42C060978A07.htm

[jedr]

1. war is hell....this ain't no picnic outing;

put soldiers on two or three back to back deployments and sh*t will happen... Vietnam reduex,... Lt. Calley are you there?

[lebkuchen]

3. Yeah but, aren't we at the "liberation" stage now?

Either that, or "shock and awe" had the opposite effect of what was intended.

[knowbody0]

2. these "warriors" will never recover from this carnage

[OneBlueSky]

4. what we're doing in Iraq will engender hatred of the US . . .

among Iraqis and others in the region for generations to come . . . the entire Bush administration should be indicted for war crimes and prosecuted to the fullest . . .