Monday, July 21, 2008
Another assault on Fallujah? posted by Richard Seymour
U.S. and Iraqi forces are preparing another siege of Fallujah under the pretext of combating "terror", residents and officials say.Located 69 km west of Baghdad, the city that suffered two devastating U.S. attacks in 2004 has watched security degrade over recent months.
"Ruling powers in the city fighting to gain full control seem willing to use the security collapse to accuse each other of either conspiracy (in lawlessness) or incapability of control," Sufian Ahmed, a lawyer and human rights activist in Fallujah told IPS.
"They suddenly changed their tone from saying that the city was the safest in Iraq to claiming that al-Qaeda is a serious threat. Fallujah residents know their so-called leaders are using security threats to terrify them for their own political interests."
Labels: 'surge', fallujah, iraq, iraqi resistance, US imperialism
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