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...supposed to have outgrown colonial pretence, the barbarity of the ‘civilizing mission’ makes itself apparent in Iraq today. And no episodes in the four and a half years of occupation better demonstrate this than the brutality of the two sieges of the city of Fallujah...
...first of the two operations began on April 4, concocted hastily by senior administration officials as a knee-jerk response to the murders of four Blackwater employees in Fallujah a few days earlier. Mainstream media here had alluded to the viciousness of the people involved in that crime, speaking of “a barbaric orgy,” “an act of savagery,” and “sheer bestial violence.” In a not-so-precise way, the people of Fallujah were implicated; the event was intentionally left inexplicable, attributable only...
...first siege had failed, the US attacked again. American Lt. Col. Gary Brandl set the scene, invoking the holiness of the coalition’s efforts in epic fashion: “The enemy has got a face. He’s called Satan. He’s in Fallujah. And we’re going to destroy...
Townsley pointed to local entrepreneurs, men such as Noori Idham, who see Fallujah's glass as half full. Calling himself a "realist," 47-year-old Idham said he is expanding his ice plant even at a loss, neither waiting for government help nor cowering before al-Qaeda. Lobbying the Marines at Friday's meeting to clear a road alongside his ice plant connecting him to the adjacent district of Shuhada, Idham said he is snatching up land and industrial facilities at bargain prices from owners who can no longer wait for the government compensation. "I know Fallujah will be back...
Sheik Hamid Hussein, a local chief of the Jumaili tribe and head of the Fallujah council of mukhtars struck a positive note Friday but tempered Idham's optimism. "I'm not going to say it's very good, but it's good now, better," he said. He encouraged his fellows to be patient with the Marines and help them identify strangers in Sinaa, citing a local Arab proverb as the final word at Friday's meeting. "One who has seen death, can tolerate fever," he said with a raspy cackle and a knowing grin...