Thursday, April 29, 2004
On the Run Again... posted by Richard Seymour
From The Guardian :
US marines in Falluja prepare to pull out of the city. Photograph: Ramzi Haidar/AFP/Getty Images
US forces today announced an end to their siege of Falluja, saying they will pull out immediately to allow a newly-created, Iraqi security force to secure the city.
The new force, known as the Falluja Protective Army, will consist of up to 1,100 Iraqi soldiers led by a former general from the military of Saddam Hussein and will begin moving into the city tomorrow.
Lieutenant Colonel Brennan Byrne said the agreement was reached late last night between US officials and Falluja police and civilian representatives. "The plan is that the whole of Falluja will be under the control of the FPA," Lt Col Byrne told the Associated Press.
I believe it's called, "running away with your tail between your legs". This is, of course, not the first time that the occupiers have attempted to get locals to take bullets for them. And it should not be a terrific surprise that the FPA
would be made up of about 1,100 Iraqi soldiers led by a former general from the Saddam Hussein era.
The only oddity is that as late as this afternoon, the US was pretending that no deal had been struck and "there could still be reasons to continue attacking selected insurgent targets in the turmoil-ridden city of 300,000 people." Well, if they didn't exist, you'd have to invent them, wouldn't you?
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