"We will fight them again!" (Dahr Jamail reports from Falluja)

[Barrett808]

"We will fight them again!"
by Dahr Jamail

An older Iraqi man is wailing near the grave of a loved one in the dusty heat of a football stadium converted into a cemetary. Between wails he raises his fist and yells, “Allahu akbar!” (God is great).

We wait outside until he slowly exits the new cemetery with his brothers holding him.


The Martyrs' cemetary in Falluja -- filled with nearly 500 bodies from recent U.S. aggression in the city.

Rows and rows of fresh graves fill the football stadium in Falluja. Many of them are smaller than others. My translator Nermim reads the gravestones to me: “This one is a little girl.” We take another step. “And this one is her sister. Next to them is their mother.”

We walk slowly under the scorching sun along dusty rows of humble headstones. She continues reading them aloud to me: “Old man wearing jacket with black dishdasha, near industrial center. He has a key in his hand.” Many of the bodies were buried before they could be identified. Tears are welling up in my eyes as she quietly reads: “Man wearing red track suit.” She points to another row, “Three women killed in car leaving city by American missile.”

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http://blog.newstandardnews.net/iraqdispatches/archives/000343.html#more

[Nlighten1]

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[KoKo]

2. I know...this picture just is sorrow upon sorrow. And, we wonder who

besides us really understand this, or care.

Gotta just keep "plugging along, though." We aren't alone. We may think we are, but we aren't.

When the meaning of "hypocracy" is understood, maybe we will have a chance. And our "little voice" will have power.

[TahitiNut]

8. ... and "Bring 'em on!"

:puke:

[KoKo]

3. Well.....guess no one knows what to do with this post!

interesting..

[Barrett808]

4. I'll toss this out for discussion: Where are the mainstream media?

Why is it we have to hear this from an independent, freelance journalist?

[daleo]

5. George W Bush's personal mass grave

To go along with his new torture chambers and rape rooms.

[mike_c]

6. oh my....

this one made me cry.... look what the pig bastards have done

[MuseRider]

7. Will this ever end?

We have to stop this, WE do. I don't know how but we have to.

[not systems]

9. Two weeks ago the networks cheered...

as helicopter gunships strafed this city.

Greens screen images of explosions.

Now?

Who cheers now only the graves of the Iraqis killed
by blind power remain buried in the soil of their own
land and bodies returned by a government operating
like thieves in the night, silent and unseen to the
families of the dead.

[Jacobin]

10. The winds of retribution are just beginning to stir

God help us all. Payback is a bitch and its coming.

[enough]

11. The true atrocity.

Far beyond "scandal," far beyond "abuse." Yet this picture will never make it to the front pages of newspapers around the country.

After all, what is it, just dead Iraqis, just dead enemies, just dead arabs. We don't even count them.

No sex. Move on, nothing to see here.

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. The "Martyr's Cemetery" -- how appropriate.

Thanks Barrett.

Humpty Dumpty can't be put together again. Pull out now! If not now, on January 20, 2005.

[Name removed]

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[bobbieinok]

14. ?????? I don't think you're at home here at DU

[KiloForAngelese]

15. That is not an answer to my question

I am home here with most DUers. Can you just answer the question without the straw man stuff?