Wednesday, October 20, 2004

The Coming Battle of Fallujah

Yep, our "insurgent" friends are about to go down...all the way to Chinatown.

BAGHDAD – The collapse of peace talks between Fallujah representatives and the Iraqi government signaled an end of hope for Ahmad Salim last Thursday. The generator mechanic loaded his tearful family into a car and escaped the embattled city of Fallujah by way of dusty farm tracks.

Already 80 percent of the city's population of 300,000 has made the same decision, he estimates, even as the intense US bombardments over the weekend gave way to relative quiet Monday.


Allawi's clearing the innocents out so that - as Salim later adds:

"I think the Americans will wipe Fallujah from the map."

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