Fallujah: The Real Story - Iraq

Jan 2005
Two months after the US launched its biggest ever assault on Fallujah, what exactly happened inside the city has, until now, remained a mystery. Now, for the first time, Guardian films reveals the true story.

It was billed as a resounding military success. Over 1,200 insurgents were meant to have been killed and another 2,000 trapped inside Fallujah. But now this version of events is being challenged. Far from being crushed, rebels claim they left the city in an organised withdrawal. "It was a tactical move," explains insurgent leader Alazaim Abuthe. "The fighters decided to redeploy to Amiriya." Before they left, fighters booby-trapped many bodies. People are too scared to move them so the corpses lie rotting all over the city. Rabid dogs feed off them and then attack returning residents. Far from stabilising Iraq in preparation for this month's election, the assault on Falluja has fanned the flames of civil war. Today Fallujans are too busy trying to stay alive in freezing refugee camps to worry about ballot papers that haven't arrived for an election they have no intention of voting in. As one resident comments, "We're not interested in this sort of democracy."

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[GreedSpring]

War is hell. That is the truth. You can't complain if soldiers used your house as a temporary safe haven or destroyed it. That's why war is hell.

[GrassyKnollTrolls]

I am so tired of ignorant Americans. Im American too, and have tried to wake people up to these crimes that are never shown on American or European TV or newspapers. It;s disgusting. Since the 1990's, 5 jewish owned corporations bought all US media. You cannot even criticize the zionists who planned & caused this war & 9-11 to happen. It's disgusting. I have no more hope for my fellow Americans. They're such cowards, they can''t even face the truth.

[bsdunix]

And I'm sure that the U.S. servicemember that defiled that "holy" koran was thinking "If I had my way, we'd darken your skies with B-52's, B-2's and B-1's 24/7/365 carpet-bombing of nothing but cluster bombs and napalm until you worshipped my ass OVER this koran of yours!" - He, too; deceived by his government, taught to see other humans as less than human, a puppet controlled by the banking elite and an undeserved sense of moral superiority rather than by religiosity wacky-ism and hopelessness

[gallantgourmet1960]

The story of the Roman Empire rings true. History will repeat.

[da24del42]

This how the Fucking American they are bunch of bastard.

[lozkina]

these poor people may god help you

[flipy222]

@electrodes1300 Sorry this was typed fast...

:)

[flipy222]

@electrodes1300 No no no i'm sorry for misinterpritation my youtube freind when i say i dn't support it mean what they are doing and i could care less for world domination.

Look i'm sorry for any mis-interpritation.

[electrodes1300]

@flipy222 -- You don't have to support my conclusions, nor am I your pal. To suggest that 'we all want' to be dominated is a sick fetish of yours. To state that your domination fetish is all inclusive, is a fallacy in logic. Hence you will find that you do not need to agree for a statement to be true but you should at least make your argument valid before stating a misrepresentation to the world.