Iraq Diaries - Eyewitness Accounts of the Events in Falluja

[Dirty Hippie]

We’ve been seeing it with our own eyes. People were told to leave Falluja and now there are thousands trapped in the desert. There is a 13 km long convoy of people trying to reach Baghdad. The Americans are firing bombs, everything they have on them. They are firing on Families! They are all children, old men and women in the dessert. Other Iraqi people are trying to help them. In Falluja the Americans have been bombing hospitals. Children are being evacuated to Baghdad. There is a child, a baby, who had 25 members of his family killed. He’s in the hospital alone without anyone. The Americans are dropping cluster bombs and new mortars, which jump 3-4 meters. They are bombing from the air. There are people lying dead in the streets. They said there would be a ceasefire and then they flew in, I saw them, and they began to bomb.
The people are fighting back and they are fighting well. But, we are expecting the big attack in 24-48 hours. It will be the main attack. The Americans will be taking the town street by street, searching and attacking. They did this already in a village near-by, and now they will be doing this in Falluja. People need to protest, go to the Embassies, and get them to do something to stop this. We are having a protest at an American checkpoint tomorrow. Do everything you can.




http://electroniciraq.net/news/1451.shtml

[mike_c]

1. also....

6 new foreigners have been taken hostage. Of the six, four Italian security firm employees were kidnapped from their car. Baghdad was quiet today except for Abu Ghraib (West Baghdad, where a vast prison is located and is bursting at the seams with 12,000 prisoners). An American convoy was attacked there and 9 soldiers were injured and 27 were kidnapped. That’s right 27. None of the newswires are reporting it though.

[enough]

2. Horrible

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There are people in the desert. They've left Falluja but they're not being allowed into Baghdad. They're trapped in the dessert, like refugees. It is terrible but the people, Iraqi people, are giving all they can. They’re bringing supplies. Everyone is giving all the help and support they can to Falluja. It is really, really bad. The Americans have been firing on ambulances and snipers are following them. The ambulances cannot get in.

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[donsu]

3. kick

nt

[Laughing Mirror]

4. Firing on ambulances

And we're paying for this.

Lovely.

[Dirty Hippie]

5. Shameless Kick

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[Karenina]

6. And another!

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