City of ghosts (The Guardian, report on Fallujah)

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On November 8, the American army launched its biggest ever assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja, considered a stronghold for rebel fighters. The US said the raid had been a huge success, killing 1,200 insurgents. Most of the city's 300,000 residents, meanwhile, had fled for their lives. What really happened in the siege of Falluja? In a joint investigation for the Guardian and Channel 4 News, Iraqi doctor Ali Fadhil compiled the first independent reports from the devastated city, where he found scores of unburied corpses, rabid dogs - and a dangerously embittered population

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What follows is a long, sometimes graphic description of the destruction of Fallujah. Read it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1387460,00....

See also: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...