private US money for Fallujans rejected by Fallujans

[donsu]

they don't want the invaders money

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050115/FALLUJAH15/TPInternational/Africa


Fallujah residents left displaced and bitter

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"You give a drowning man a life jacket," said Sheik Hussein Zubayee, a Fallujah native who turned the Mostafa Mosque he oversees into a camp for displaced Fallujans. "You don't give him a sandwich."

Americans and officials of the interim government continue to hail the massive Fallujah offensive as a means to stabilize the Sunni Arab heartland in time for the election. Just yesterday Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, who gave the green light to the assault in November, called the operation "a significant success in terms of getting the terrorists and ridding the Fallujah people terrorists and insurgents."

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The interim government has designated millions of dollars to rebuild Fallujah, and has promised each family who lost their home as much as $10,000 in compensation, about a fifth of the cost of building a new home in Iraq. Each family returning to the city is also supposed to get about $100 to get started.

But the Fallujans from the camp who have dared to visit their homes have come away horrified. Mohammad al-Rawa, a university student, said he found his home destroyed and 90 per cent of his neighbourhood in ruins.

"There's no water. There's no electricity," he said. "No one can live in the city any more. Even electricity poles are missing."

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Mr. Zubayee said a group of Americans wanted to donate $25,000 to the Fallujans at his camp. But the residents refused to take money from Americans, whom they blame for their economic suffering.

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"If I know it will be free and honest elections, I will vote. But I know that the Americans will put whoever they want in there. So, I won't vote."
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he is so right - smirk does whatever he wants