Fallujah: Life and Death in the Kill Zone
By Dahr Jamail:
"Men now seeking refuge in the Baghdad area are telling horrific stories of indiscriminate killings by US forces during the peak of fighting last month in the largely annihilated city of Fallujah.
"In an interview with The NewStandard, Burhan Fasa'a, an Iraqi journalist who works for the popular Lebanese satellite TV station, LBC, said he witnessed US crimes up close. Burhan Fasa'a, who was in Fallujah for nine days during the most intense combat, said Americans grew easily frustrated with Iraqis who could not speak English.
"'Americans did not have interpreters with them', Fasa'a said, 'so they entered houses and killed people because they didn't speak English. They entered the house where I was with 26 people, and [they] shot people because [the people] didn't obey [the soldiers'] orders, even just because the people couldn't understand a word of English.'
"Fasa'a further speculated, 'Soldiers thought the people were rejecting their orders, so they shot them. But the people just couldn't understand them'.
"Fasa'a says American troops detained him. They interrogated him specifically about working for the Arab media, he said, and held him for three days. Fasa'a and other prisoners slept on the ground with no blankets. He said prisoners were made to go to the bathroom in handcuffs, using one toilet in the middle of the camp.
"'During the nine days I was in Fallujah, all of the wounded women, kids and old people, none of them were evacuated', Fasa'a said. 'They either suffered to death, or somehow survived.'
"Many refugees tell stories of having witnessed US troops killing already injured people, including former fighters and noncombatants alike.
"'I watched them roll over wounded people in the street with tanks', said Kassem Mohammed Ahmed, a resident of Fallujah. 'This happened so many times.'"
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"Dahr Jamail is originally from Anchorage, Alaska. He has spent a total of 5 months in occupied Iraq, and has now returned to continue reporting on the occupation. One of only a few independent reporters in Iraq, Dahr will be using the DahrJamailIraq.com website and mailing list to disseminate his dispatches and will continue as special correspondent for Flashpoints Radio. This article first appeared in The NewStandard."
By Dahr Jamail:
"Men now seeking refuge in the Baghdad area are telling horrific stories of indiscriminate killings by US forces during the peak of fighting last month in the largely annihilated city of Fallujah.
"In an interview with The NewStandard, Burhan Fasa'a, an Iraqi journalist who works for the popular Lebanese satellite TV station, LBC, said he witnessed US crimes up close. Burhan Fasa'a, who was in Fallujah for nine days during the most intense combat, said Americans grew easily frustrated with Iraqis who could not speak English.
"'Americans did not have interpreters with them', Fasa'a said, 'so they entered houses and killed people because they didn't speak English. They entered the house where I was with 26 people, and [they] shot people because [the people] didn't obey [the soldiers'] orders, even just because the people couldn't understand a word of English.'
"Fasa'a further speculated, 'Soldiers thought the people were rejecting their orders, so they shot them. But the people just couldn't understand them'.
"Fasa'a says American troops detained him. They interrogated him specifically about working for the Arab media, he said, and held him for three days. Fasa'a and other prisoners slept on the ground with no blankets. He said prisoners were made to go to the bathroom in handcuffs, using one toilet in the middle of the camp.
"'During the nine days I was in Fallujah, all of the wounded women, kids and old people, none of them were evacuated', Fasa'a said. 'They either suffered to death, or somehow survived.'
"Many refugees tell stories of having witnessed US troops killing already injured people, including former fighters and noncombatants alike.
"'I watched them roll over wounded people in the street with tanks', said Kassem Mohammed Ahmed, a resident of Fallujah. 'This happened so many times.'"
Continue here
"Dahr Jamail is originally from Anchorage, Alaska. He has spent a total of 5 months in occupied Iraq, and has now returned to continue reporting on the occupation. One of only a few independent reporters in Iraq, Dahr will be using the DahrJamailIraq.com website and mailing list to disseminate his dispatches and will continue as special correspondent for Flashpoints Radio. This article first appeared in The NewStandard."
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