Fallujah
by ChrisDecember 30th, 2004 2:35 pm
While there isn’t as much of Fallujah as there once was, it appears that what’s left is full of rotting corpses and sewage. What was gained? The insurgents continue to fight from their burned out city and those who don’t, have moved on to other cities. They too, will continue to fight and to train new insurgents. Now 200,000 former Fallujah residents are homeless and angry and have little left to lose – a bad combination if ever there was one. There are no words.
From the Los Angeles Times:
Yasser Abbas Atiya swore he’d sooner sleep on the streets of his beloved hometown of Fallouja than spend another night in the squalid Baghdad shelter where his family had been squatting.
Thirty minutes after he returned home this week, however, Atiya had seen enough. He left in disgust and had no plans to go back.
“I couldn’t stand it,” the grocer said. “I was born in that town. I know every inch of it. But when I got there, I didn’t recognize it.”
Lakes of sewage in the streets. The smell of corpses inside charred buildings. No water or electricity. Long waits and thorough searches by U.S. troops at checkpoints. Warnings to watch out for land mines and booby traps. Occasional gunfire between troops and insurgents.
