Graveyard near Fallujah reveals Iraqi side of story

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By Christine Hauser
NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , FALLUJAH, IRAQ
Monday, May 03, 2004,Page 9

The place where the new dead lie in this city west of Baghdad was once a soccer stadium called the Fallujah Sports Club.

But now, after weeks of fighting between U.S. Marines and insurgents, it is known as the Fallujah Martyrs Cemetery.

In handwritten Arabic lettering on the stone markers are the names of two children, Amal and Mustafa Alawi, killed in Jolan, a poor neighborhood in Fallujah where much of the fighting has taken place.

"There are 250 people buried here from American strikes on houses," said a gravedigger who gave only his first name, Nasser. "We have stacked up the bodies one on top of the other."

The headstones in this makeshift cemetery were silent witnesses to part of the Iraqi side of the brutal story.

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1. The mass graves of bush II

he still has some work to do to surpass his old man.