{"article":{"id":122714,"heading":"War crimes in fallujah","author":"see material","created":"2005-02-17 07:08:14","modified":"2013-11-11 00:32:09","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:32:09","article":"

Doctor Salam Ismael took aid to Fallujah last month. This is his story of how the US murdered a city

IT WAS the smell that first hit me, a smell that is difficult to describe, and one that will never leave me. It was the smell of death. Hundreds of corpses were decomposing in the houses, gardens and streets of Fallujah. Bodies were rotting where they had fallen—bodies of men, women and children, many half-eaten by wild dogs.

A wave of hate had wiped out two-thirds of the town, destroying houses and mosques, schools and clinics. This was the terrible and frightening power of the US military assault.

The accounts I heard over the next few days will live with me forever. You may think you know what happened in Fallujah. But the truth is worse than you could possibly have imagined.

In Saqlawiya, one of the makeshift refugee camps that surround Fallujah, we found a 17 year old woman. “I am Hudda Fawzi Salam Issawi from the Jolan district of Fallujah,” she told me. “Five of us, including a 55 year old neighbour, were trapped together in our house in Fallujah when the siege began.

“On 9 November American marines came to our house. My father and the neighbour went to the door to meet them. We were not fighters. We thought we had nothing to fear. I ran into the kitchen to put on my veil, since men were going to enter our house and it would be wrong for them to see me with my hair uncovered.

“This saved my life. As my father and neighbour approached the door, the Americans opened fire on them. They died instantly.

<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.socialistworker.co.uk\/article.php4?article_id=5891","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"This is what greedy elitist lying thieving slimy scumbags call liberation!","numcomment":18,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2005\/02\/122714.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":122730,"heading":"atrocities by US forces","article":" This kind of thing is going to guarantee more terrorist attacks on the US, which will in turn give Bush an excuse for more invasions - "we're not after oil; we're going in to fight terrorism and install democracy."\r\nBush and his boys and girls actually like terrorist attacks, they give them a plausible excuse to do what they were going to do anyway.","author":"Meyer London","parent_id":122714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-02-17 17:47:30","modified":"2005-02-17 17:47:30","fileurl":""},{"id":122739,"heading":"fresca","article":""two-thirds of the town"\r\n\r\n\r\nTwo outa three ain't bad.","author":"well","parent_id":122714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-02-18 01:57:29","modified":"2005-02-18 01:57:29","fileurl":""},{"id":122740,"heading":"yeah, f$#k fresca and the little eichmanns","article":"should have killed more WTC bureaucrats in 9-11 too I suppose","author":"fresca killer","parent_id":122714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-02-18 02:17:21","modified":"2005-02-18 02:17:21","fileurl":""},{"id":122743,"heading":"fresca","article":"I love this whole "lil' eichman" banter you fools have co-opted.\r\n\r\nIt's actually pretty entertaining.\r\n\r\nAnd no, for the record I'd have preferred less WTC bureaucrats killed and all of faluza.\r\n\r\nHey it looks like we might still get a shot at syria and iran.\r\n\r\nlet's hope so.","author":"Lol!","parent_id":122714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-02-18 03:31:51","modified":"2005-02-18 03:31:51","fileurl":""},{"id":122747,"heading":""we might still get a shot at syria and iran"","article":"What is this we you throw around you idiot. Going to lead the assult from your keyboard?","author":"The gerbil in your ass, fresca","parent_id":122714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-02-18 04:48:51","modified":"2005-02-18 04:48:51","fileurl":""},{"id":122754,"heading":"fresca","article":"like I'm the only one who's itchin' to turn the arab world to glass.","author":"Oh c'mon","parent_id":122714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-02-18 06:50:14","modified":"2005-02-18 06:50:14","fileurl":""},{"id":122766,"heading":""author: fresca killer"","article":"Notice how death threats are allowed to stand on indymedia as long as it's a violent revolutionary threatening one of the so-called trolls... another example of these hypocritical piece of shit leftists in action. I only wish these shitbirds would try something in America. Nothing would give me more pleasure than to fubar a few violent leftists.......","author":"fads","parent_id":122714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-02-18 13:00:15","modified":"2005-02-18 13:00:15","fileurl":""},{"id":122774,"heading":"leading the assault from his keyboard","article":"No, Fresca will be leading the assault from his snack bowl; he'll be throwing cheetos at a map of the Middle East while thousands of other people die.","author":"Meyer London","parent_id":122714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-02-18 17:46:30","modified":"2005-02-18 17:46:30","fileurl":""},{"id":122779,"heading":"fresca","article":"Hey. Whatever I can do to help.\r\n\r\nI would, however, suggest a total air and missile assault to entirely minimize casualties to our forces.","author":"hey...","parent_id":122714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-02-18 18:42:43","modified":"2005-02-18 18:42:43","fileurl":""},{"id":122780,"heading":"Meyer","article":"I believe that the strategy of this current military adventurism is precisely to provoke a retaliatory rational for any act of state terror brought upon it's own citizenry by the criminal class in power at this time... \r\nAs I keep saying, it's national suicide to poke the United Snakes. That's why it hasn't been done since 1941.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":122714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-02-18 19:05:51","modified":"2005-02-18 19:05:51","fileurl":""},{"id":122781,"heading":"fresca","article":""As I keep saying, it's national suicide to poke the United States. That's why it hasn't been done since 1941."\r\n\r\nAs well it should be you fuckin' idiot.\r\n\r\nExactly whose side are you on anyway? And why is it that you continue to endure the horrors and oppression that living in this country heaps upon you?\r\n\r\nIt would seem you are exceedingly lazy. Too lazy to get up off your ass and move. You fantasy "uprising of the masses" will never occur, simply because the "masses" you speak of number , oh about, less then .005 percent of the populace. \r\n\r\nI'll do the math for you...about 14,000 likeminded fools living in chemically imbalanced or induced paranoia of "The State".\r\n\r\nLook out sheep, I think there's a CIA bogeyman under your bed!","author":"uh, ya think?","parent_id":122714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-02-18 19:26:51","modified":"2005-02-18 19:26:51","fileurl":""},{"id":122782,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"...the ol' "love it or leave it" argument...how original...\r\n","author":"KPC","parent_id":122714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-02-18 19:40:48","modified":"2005-02-18 19:40:48","fileurl":""},{"id":122787,"heading":"well actually...","article":"I didn't nove. The country moved . That's why I said The United Snakes. I've earned my citizenship. (does fresca get paid to follow my posts?) Fresca, do us all a favor and get somebody to unplug your life support.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":122714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-02-18 21:18:33","modified":"2005-02-18 21:18:33","fileurl":""},{"id":122788,"heading":"I made a mistake","article":"I DID nove but I didn't move. Damn big ol paws.","author":"Sheepdog","parent_id":122714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-02-18 21:21:02","modified":"2005-02-18 21:21:02","fileurl":""},{"id":122795,"heading":"Don't mind poor Fresca.","article":"He's just upset because none of the things he sees happening on the Desperate Housewives Show ever seem to happen in his neighborhood, where the only activity is watching Fox News or going to the beer and wine store to stock up on booze and skin magazines.\r\nHe could add some excitement to his life by volunteering to go to Iraq in the National Guard, but that is about as likely to happen as Terri Hatcher climbing in his bedroom window at night.","author":"Meyer London","parent_id":122714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-02-19 01:30:33","modified":"2005-02-19 01:30:33","fileurl":""},{"id":122803,"heading":"fresca","article":""(does fresca get paid to follow my posts?) "\r\n\r\nAs if you don't fall all over yourself commenting on every word I write.\r\n \r\nBesides, thee are only about 6 or 7 regulars here. Why would I even come here except to knock you around a bit?","author":"Absolutely","parent_id":122714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-02-19 05:18:03","modified":"2005-02-19 05:18:03","fileurl":""},{"id":122804,"heading":"fresca","article":""...the ol' "love it or leave it" argument...how original... \r\n"\r\n\r\nIt's actually the new and improved "Love it, Like it, Tolerate it, Even Be Indifferent to it, But at least don't be a paranoid schizophrenic about it and blather on about your tired fantasies of State controlled bogeyman and Chemtrails OR LEAVE IT"\r\n\r\n","author":"Actually not, dummy","parent_id":122714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-02-19 05:24:52","modified":"2005-02-19 05:24:52","fileurl":""},{"id":122816,"heading":"C'mon lay off sheepdog","article":"We are trying to create a memeoid out of him.\r\n\r\nFind the pattern sheeddog (a secret message):\r\n\r\nmeme\r\n\r\nmeme\r\n\r\nmeme\r\nmeme\r\n\r\nmeme\r\n\r\nmeme\r\n\r\nmeme\r\nmeme meme]\r\nmeem\r\n\r\nmeme meme meme\r\nmeme meme\r\nmeme\r\nme\r\nm\r\n","author":"Memebot","parent_id":122714,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-02-19 13:54:13","modified":"2005-02-19 13:54:13","fileurl":""}]}