Need Some DU Help - Didn't Marines STOP Men From Leaving Fallujah?

[matcom]

can't remember if it was Fallujah specifically or not but seem to remember stories of families trying to leave and the men (of fighting age) being turned back with the women and children being allowed to leave town(?)

this is extremely IMPORTANT FOR ME PERSONALLY and Dadcom needs links from CREDIBLE, MAJOR SOURCES!!

can you help?

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[Desertrose]

1. Try this.... 4/12/04

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/12/1423251

a few paragraphs down.....

Local hospitals reported the majority of the dead were women, children and the elderly. The U.S. maintains 95 percent of those killed were members of the resistance. This according to the Guardian of London.

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More than 60,000 women and children fled the city during a brief ceasefire on Friday but the US blocked any men of military age from leaving. Dozens of bodies have been buried in the city's soccer stadium after US forces blocked roads heading toward the cemetery.

[bicentennial_baby]

2. Here you go

There was initial confusion about U.S. terms for a cease-fire and the civilian evacuation. Marine officials here said at noon that they were only suspending aggressive military actions for humanitarian reasons and would continue to return fire if attacked.

"We have said that women, children and elderly men can leave the city," said Lt. Col. Brennan Byrne, who commands the 5th Marine Battalion here. "People here have large extended families, and I expect they will all go stay with their relatives."

He said no men of military age would be allowed to leave and that the operation was undertaken "so people will not have to suffer from combat."

Earlier in the day, occupation officials in Baghdad announced that the truce would be accompanied by a meeting among U.S. military officials, Iraqi Governing Council officials and religious and tribal leaders from Fallujah to arrange delivery of relief supplies.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A368-2004Apr9.html

[Eureka]

3. and another.......

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4703464/

[matcom]

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