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"Apokalypse in Falluja". Diesen Artikel möchte ich weiterleiten: er
beschreibt, wie es im besetzten Falluja heute aussieht. Eine
Eintrittserlaubnis für diese Stadt zu bekommen ist praktisch unmöglich.
Grüße, Sylvia Weiss
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Apocalyptic Fallujah
IslamOnline.net & Newspapers 28.1.2008
The city's streets look as if the fighting had finished only a few weeks
ago. CAIRO - Buildings reduced to a heap of concrete slabs as if they
were toppled by missiles the other day and walls pock-marked with
bullets, while clean water, electricity or medicine are something of a
luxury. It is not a scene from Gaza or the southern suburb of Beirut in
the wake of the 2006 Israeli war, but a miniature portrait of the
onetime Iraqi resistance hub of Fallujah three years after the US
occupation had sealed off the city, the Independent reported on Monday,
January 28.
"The Americans provide us with nothing," said one mother. "They bring us
only destruction."
The US occupation forces launched in March of 2004 an abortive operation
to control Fallujah, which went down in history as the country's
resistance command base against the occupation at the time.
Eight months later, the US occupation staged a devastating operation
following the killing and mutilation of four US Blackwater contractors by
locals, recapturing the resistance hub.
The November onslaught left much of the city in ruins and up to 1,300
killed, including children and women. Thousands were maimed for life.
Today, the city's streets look as if the fighting had finished only a few
weeks ago.
The city is still under siege, more difficult to enter than any city in
the world.
There are more than 27 checkpoints, only on one road that links the city
and the capital Baghdad.
"The siege is total," said Kamal, a doctor at Fallujah Hospital.
Nobody is allowed to enter Fallujah unless they carry biometric identity
cards.
After controlling the city in the wake of the aftermath of the 2004
battle, the US occupation finger-printed locals and gave them a retina
scan to issue them biometric IDs which cannot be forged.
Luxury
The city still lacks many of the basic humanitarian needs, which have
become something of a luxury.
"We have no electricity, we have no water," an elderly man shouted.
Inhabitants say their war-torn city is getting electricity only one
hour a day.
Overlooking the apocalyptic scene, the city's newly built bridge has
turned into a park for US armored vehicles.
People still walk warily in the streets as if they expected firing to
break out at any minute.
The city's healthcare system is also collapsing.
When asked what the hospital lacked Dr. Kamal said: "Drugs, fuel,
electricity, generators, a water treatment system, oxygen and medical
equipment."
Officials say things were getting better.
But locals gathering at one ward at the city's main hospital contradicted
the customary upbeat statement.
"Every day 20 children die here," said one. "Seven in this very room
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