Friday, April 01 2005
"When an Iraqi man slapped an officer for using bad language, the officer hit the man, broke his arm, tied his arms and legs, and then a tank.."
“Testimonies from Falluja,” is a collection of testimonies from Iraqis who experienced the U.S.-attack on Falluja in October and November 2004.
Their firsthand accounts describe the aerial bombardment and video footage shows burned, blown-up bodies lying in the streets, children included, alongside destroyed buildings. U.S. mainstream media did not report this side of the war.
With explosions in the background, cameraman Isam Rashid follows the people running for their lives. Men urge the women and children to run to the school because they think they have a better chance of surviving the attack. A man calls out to a group of women: “God is the greatest.”
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A Sheikh of the Fallujah Mosque explains that six batteries of artillery attacked the town. During an attack on American soldiers in the street, the American soldiers shot six cars of civilians. U.S. soldiers shot at houses with people inside of them randomly. “Yes, I saw young people killed mutilated and crushed with tank treads,” he added.
Footage of U.S. soldiers on a rooftop firing and bombing buildings add to the compounding evidence of the Iraqis’ testimonies. Amid Falluja’s skyline of smoke and gun powder, the soldiers whoop and holler. The testimonies illustrate the different experiences survivors had when U.S. soldiers confronted them.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m10860
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