Fallujah Holds Its First City Council Meeting

[Barrett808]

Release # 0517-05-1617
Fallujah Holds Its First City Council Meeting
May 17, 2005

Camp Fallujah, Iraq -- The first democratically-elected city council of Fallujah held its inaugural meeting today at the Civil-Military Operations Center in Fallujah.

The 20-member council met for approximately two hours, during which time they elected the chairman, vice chairman and secretary of the council. Imams, sheiks, engineers, lawyers, educators, administrators and businessmen are among those who make up the council.

Sheik Khalid Hammoud Mahal al-Joumaily, newly-elected chairman, said “We are happy with the free democratic process which led to a successful election.”

Mohamed Hussain Alzobai, representative of the Provincial Council, attended the meeting and offered words of encouragement to the Fallujah City Council. “You are the ones selected to represent the people of Fallujah and we hope your intent is good for the people of Fallujah,” said Alzobai. “You must do what you can to encourage the people to vote in the upcoming election.

http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/templatereleaseview1/AE4526E5FF0FFE6085257004006F7244?opendocument

[NNN0LHI]

1. There is no more Fallujah. This is pure propaganda n/a

[merwin]

9. Those city council members make up the entire city probably

[Roland99]

2. How far away were the hors d'oeurves shipped?

[FloridaPat]

3. Number of woment in this? What is Camp Fallujah? Is that where

the election was held?

[Raiden]

4. This just in:

Fallujah's first city council meeting infiltrated by turrists; The US military will thus resume air strikes against the city. God Bless America

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. One wonders where all the local

"engineers, lawyers, educators, administrators and businessmen" came from, the people of Fallujah having formerly been wild and ungovernable before the arrival of the beneficient, civilizing Americans and their faintly Rockwellian "city councils." </sarcasm>

[Miss Chybil]

6. Camp Fallujah?

What a shame. It reminds me of how the whites "civilized" Native Americans by changing their names to Christian names, cutting off their sacred hair and seperating them from their families to attend boarding school - being forced to learn English, work on cars and to crochet.

On edit: And if any of them died at school they were buried under a Christian cross emblazened with their new name never to be found by their families again.

Pretty soon Iraqis will be shopping at Wal-Mart and eating KFC. Freedom's on the march.

[Minstrel Boy]

7. Does a United States Marine Corps Press Release qualify as LBN?

Seriously.

[Barrett808]

10. LBP?

Late-breaking propaganda?

[Name removed]

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[Arkana]

11. You sure this isn't from the Onion?

[NNN0LHI]

12. Marines. Same thing n/t

[The_Casual_Observer]

13. "Civil-Military Operations Center in Fallujah"

This piece was authored by a guy with a high & tight haircut.

[Darranar]

14. Who voted?

The corpses?

The destroyed houses?

The damaged mosques?

The torn-apart hospitals?

The starving refugees, who can't even get the necessary humanitarian aid, let alone the resources for a legitimate election?

This is obvious nonsense.

[The_Casual_Observer]

15. "You are the ones SELECTED to represent the people"

I didn't see any thing about being elected here, just "selected". I don't know what kind of shit they are spinning with this "democratic" stuff, but it's shit all the same.