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Longview News-Journal
April 29, 2018
He volunteered to Fallujah. He went by helicopter, a temporary civilian among Marines. He took with him the name of “Chris,” a name he borrowed from an American officer in Karbala by the same name. “Chris” was told to wear a uniform. Snipers knew an American talking with a civilian Iraqi was an officer,Ãâà...
RT
April 29, 2018
“The real Fallujah was taken from its people, it was taken many times. It was given a bad name in the media. It was presented as a place that was creating terrorism, and even exporting terrorism,” Sheikh Mohamed Nouri, a leading local cleric from the Rabat al-Mohammadi council, told Ruptly, RT's sisterÃâà...
RT
April 28, 2018
Amid the tensions comes April 28, the birthday of the ousted Iraqi leader, who many residents of Fallujah still supported. Some celebrated the date – including by shooting in the air. Some simply went to evening prayers. In the evening, around 200 people gathered to protest the presence of US troops, firstÃâà...
PRESSTV
April 28, 2018
April 28 marks the anniversary of the 2003 US attack on protesters in the central Iraqi city of Fallujah. At least 20 people were killed when American forces opened fire on protesters who came out in defiance of a curfew imposed by the US military. Fifteen years on, the residents of the city still recount theÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 27, 2018
The Iraqi city of Fallujah on the Euphrates River west of Baghdad has seen repeated conflict over the years. Then came repairs to infrastructure including the city's Iron Bridge until recently spotted, submerged improvised explosive devices - IEDs - made the work unsafe. United Nations Mine Action ServiceÃâà...
Arab News
April 26, 2018
FALLUJAH, Iraq: The main road running through the heart of Fallujah cuts the landscape in two like a fissure from an earthquake. On either side several of the buildings are gouged open by mortar shells and pockmarked with bullet holes. Even the general hospital, which once served as the localÃâà...
OregonLive.com
April 18, 2018
Mustafa was 2 when he was badly injured in a 2004 U.S. missile strike near Fallujah. His leg was severed near the hip, and his internal injuries required treatment beyond what could be provided in his hometown. In 2008, he and his father came to Portland, where he had kidney and bowel surgery andÃâà...
Gamasutra (blog)
April 1, 2018
When I joined Destineer in 2007, the Minneapolis-based company had opened a sister studio in North Carolina. The Raleigh team I joined was gearing up to work on a CIA game experience while Six Days in Fallujah (SDIF) had been active in Minneapolis for a couple years using in-house technology.
FAIR
March 30, 2018
Janine Jackson: In April 2004, CNN brought on the editor-in-chief of Al Jazeera, one of a handful of networks then broadcasting from inside the Iraqi city of Fallujah, then under siege from US forces—and the site, we were hearing, of mounting civilian casualties. Rather than ask if Al Jazeera's footageÃâà...
PennLive.com
March 26, 2018
The most brutal battles since Vietnam took place in Iraq, in cities such as Baghdad, Fallujah and Ramadi, and acts of heroism abounded. Emblematic is the story of Marine Sgt. Maj. Bradley Kasal. On Nov. 13, 2004, then-1st Sgt. Kasal entered an enemy-occupied building in Fallujah, a death trap our troopsÃâà...
Twin Falls Times-News
March 26, 2018
The most brutal battles since Vietnam took place in Iraq, in cities such as Baghdad, Fallujah and Ramadi, and acts of heroism abounded. Emblematic is the story of Marine Sgt. Maj. Bradley Kasal. On Nov. 13, 2004, then-1st Sgt. Kasal entered an enemy-occupied building in Fallujah, a death trap our troopsÃâà...
FAIR
March 23, 2018
By early 2004, what media still presented as a US campaign to “win hearts and minds” in Iraq came up against reality hard in the city of Fallujah, where a military attack and siege killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians. Reporting on this “First Battle” of Fallujah was a case study in the gap between corporateÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 19, 2018
The Iraqi city of Fallujah has a decades-long legacy of conflict. It was a major battlefield during the US invasion 15 years ago, and in more recent years, has experienced the trauma of ISIL rule. The armed group was pushed out of Fallujah two years ago, but people are still dealing with the psychologicalÃâà...
Middle East Eye
March 18, 2018
Consider, for instance, Cockburn's 2010 article for The Independent, headlined "Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima'". In it, he outlined the results of a study by British scientist Chris Busby and colleagues Malak Hamdan and Entesar Ariabi on the increase in reports of cancer, birthÃâà...
Iraqi News
March 18, 2018
Anbar (Iraqinews.com) – Over 15 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed while 30 others injured in the Iraqi city of Fallujah over the past few months as bombs left by Islamic State (IS) militants went off in different parts in the city, a well-placed official was quoted as saying Sunday. Speaking toÃâà...
Metal Injection.net
March 16, 2018
Speculation began flying that Monte Barnard, who has played in groups such as Alterbeast and The Kennedy Veil, would be permanently joining the band. Barnard has been filling in with Fallujah live ever since the departure of vocalist Alex Hofmann, who was with the band between 2007 and 2017.
Metal Injection.net
March 15, 2018
So naturally, I'm very excited for what the band has up their sleeve for their fourth record. Just now, they posted this studio teaser featuring our first taste of music. IV #fallujah. A post shared by Fallujah (@fallujahsf) on Mar 15, 2018 at 10:33am PDT. We're guessing we can expect the album by the end of theÃâà...
Iraqi News
March 12, 2018
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Two soldiers were wounded in a blast caused by a bomb that was placed by Islamic State, near Fallujah dam, south of the city, a security source from Anbar police said on Monday. Speaking to BasNews on Monday, the source said, “a bomb placed by Islamic State members went offÃâà...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
March 10, 2018
Mike Ergo, a licensed clinical social worker and director of Rohnert Park's North Bay Vets Center, has recommended the organization's services to a host of veterans needing support. The Marine Corps veteran served from 2001 to 2005, deploying to Iraq twice and surviving the Second Battle of Fallujah asÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 9, 2018
When asked about dozens of unarmed civilians being killed in places like Fallujah, Haditha, Mahmoudiya and Balad, Kimmitt refuted any claim that civilians were intentionally killed by American soldiers. "I am not suggesting for a moment that war doesn't sometimes kill innocent civilians. That's the price ofÃâà...
New Matilda
March 8, 2018
In the wake of revelations that the new Senator Jim Molan, formerly Major General Molan, shared inflammatory videos last year, the Greens leader Richard Di Natale drew attention in parliament to Molan's time as commander of the coalition assault on Fallujah in Iraq in November 2004, and to a UN specialÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 8, 2018
"The big battles may be over, but I am seeing that their consequences are certainly not. For all the massive destruction I saw in Ramadi and Fallujah, I saw a lot of reconstruction already taking place, and that's a testimony to the resilience of the Iraqi people. However, beyond reconstruction there is aÃâà...
Lake County News
March 4, 2018
During a five-year mobilization in the global war on terrorism, Schaupp served as anti-terrorism officer for the 3rd Marine Division, security officer for First Marine Expeditionary Force in battle of Fallujah (duties as a special staff officer to General Conway assigned to safeguard access to classified informationÃâà...
Raw Story
March 4, 2018
The conversation moved onto arming teachers, with Gaetz maintaining a well-armed collection of former soldiers like those who served in Fallujah could be stationed at schools which, in turn, stunned Reid. “You want to turn our schools into Fallujah?” she asked, which set off an another round of talkingÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
February 20, 2018
General Molan has admitted his role in planning and directing the attacks in Fallujah in October 2004. It is a matter of public record that Molan was seconded from the Australian defence forces to US forces in April 2004 and served as chief of operations through 2005. An article in the Australian emphasizedÃâà...
Green Left Weekly
February 14, 2018
Dolan noted: “Fallujah is particularly notorious for the widespread and well documented allegations of serious atrocities, if not outright war crimes, committed by Coalition troops under Molan's command. Noam Chomsky ... has described these allegations as 'far more severe than the [Abu Ghraib] tortureÃâà...
We Are The Mighty (blog)
February 13, 2018
In the Battle of Fallujah, Marines swept in to take the city away from insurgent forces, only to have politicians pull them out — and send them right back in months later. The first and second Battles of Fallujah have entered Marine Corps lore, alongside Iwo Jima and Chapultepec. But what many don't know isÃâà...
Arab News
February 11, 2018
Sayer said the army could not do that much in the “mine-contaminated area” because of lack of experience and because Baghdad's government does not have enough money to get foreign specialized companies to treat the 300 houses booby trapped in Fallujah. “We are relying on international donors toÃâà...
Politico
February 8, 2018
The ex-Marine served three tours as an artillery officer in Afghanistan and Iraq, fighting in some of the bloodiest battles in Fallujah. Now, the five-term lawmaker's Republican colleagues worry that he's on the brink of personal and political ruin. Some Republicans are urging GOP leaders to force him to retire,Ãâà...
Iraqi News
February 5, 2018
Iraqi security forces evacuate an injured soldier during heavy fighting against Islamic State group militants in Fallujah, Iraq, Wednesday, June 15, 2016. Fallujah has been locked in a cycle of conflict since 2003, when it emerged as a bastion of the insurgency against the Americans. Militant attacks andÃâà...
ABC Online
February 5, 2018
Greens leader Richard Di Natale said the attack on Fallujah was a disaster for civilians, and Senator Molan had to bear responsibility. "At the time of the assault on Fallujah under the command of now-Senator Molan, a UN special rapporteur said coalition forces used hunger and deprivation as a weapon ofÃâà...
BBC News
February 3, 2018
The Iraqi city of Falluja was one of the worst hit cities in the battle against the so-called Islamic State, with $2 billion worth of damage. It's now up to Mayor Issa Saer to help pick up the pieces. 20 Feb 2018. Share this with Facebook Ãâ÷ Share this with Twitter Ãâ÷ Share this with Messenger Ãâ÷ Share this with Messenger Ãâ÷ Share thisÃâà...
Newsweek
February 2, 2018
As ISIS was pushed back from Tikrit and then from Sunni strongholds in Fallujah, Ramadi and finally Mosul, it was Shiite fighters—prominently backed by Iran—who led the way. Many Shiites now view the victory not only as a force of will but as an act of God. Jassem's brigade, Liwa Ali al-Akhbar, is affiliatedÃâà...
NPR
November 1, 2017
These days, he doesn't have anyone to practice them with, so he repeats words to himself over and over as he walks home from school in Fallujah. With one leg, the journey on crutches takes him an hour. Mustafa, now almost 15, was two years old at the start of the battle for Fallujah in November 2004.
Aljazeera.com
October 22, 2017
Al-Suqoor straddles the main highway between Fallujah and Baghdad. Vehicles wait on the long, dusty road in hopes that Iraqi forces will let them through - but these hopes are often in vain. Residents of the Sunni-majority city say that they are frequently discriminated against by forces working for Iraq'sÃâà...
BBC News
September 5, 2017
As night falls on Falluja and darkness takes the edge off the blistering summer heat, Anas al-Janabi switches on the lights. A creaky ferris wheel, with saucer-like gondolas in primary colours, starts to turn. Below, customers begin to arrive, attracted by an oasis of coloured lights and booming music.
Reliefweb
December 31, 1999
Description of the disaster During the first half of 2016, humanitarian needs in parts of central and northern Iraq continued to rise as Iraqi state military and allied forces embarked on a military offensive to retake areas in northern and central Iraq including Fallujah, which had been occupied by organizedÃâà...
Business Insider
December 31, 1999
Iraq war fallujah 2005 U.S. Marine LCpl. Brian Norcoss (L) and LCpl. Joshua Wall from Golf Company 2nd Battalion 7th Marines set up security during a patrol on August 16, 2005 in Fallujah, Iraq. Golf Company is tasked with providing security in the southwest section of Fallujah including the mainÃâà...
New Statesman
December 31, 1999
While perhaps not as well-known as Baghdad or Mosul, Fallujah's successful regeneration will be significant for the rest of the country. Fallujah was one of the first major cities to be captured by IS, and the area was previously known for its rich religious identity. Shias, Sunnis, Jews and Christians hadÃâà...
Asia Times
December 31, 1999
Iraqi police kick back in the city of Fallujah, on June 30, 2016, after recapturing the city from Islamic State jihadists. Photo: AFP / Ahmad al-Rubaye. In an interrogation video broadcast by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on January 10, 2018, French jihadist Thomas Barnouin accused the Islamic StateÃâà...
The Atlantic
December 31, 1999
South of Fallujah's Route Fran were hundreds of insurgents who'd spent months digging trench lines, emplacing roadside bombs, barricading streets, training with their weapons, reading the Koran, and watching videos of suicide bombers to inspire them for the fight to come. North of Route Fran were theÃâà...
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