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Falluja Table - May 09

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IBC Extracted Falluja News - May 09

News Source
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Author
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Title
Chicago Tribune
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DEBORAH HORAN
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FALLOUJA'S FIGHTERS TRADE WEAPONS, NOT ALLEGIANCES
Specific incidents / deaths

Harhoush said he and his brothers joined the insurgency to avenge the death of their father, who he said was shot by Marines while driving through the city on the fourth day of fighting.

Date killed? 8th
Total

1 (father of 28-yr-old Yassir Harhoush)

Civilian / Fighter

1/0

Cumulative deaths [and injuries]

The toll on the population was immense: About 700 lives, including 158 women, according to Hardan, the physician and negotiating team leader.

At a nearby soccer stadium, the shallow graves of 336 men and women lay in rows in the field and another dirt space outside. Makeshift headstones and palm fronds rose up from each mound of earth.

Date range? 5th-7th?
Total

'About' 700;
336 (buried in one soccer stadium)

Civilian / Fighter '158 women'
Selected info, comment, analysis

Last month, Yasser Harhoush said, he fought with the armed insurgents battling U.S. Marines.

A week ago, the wiry, clean-shaven 28-year-old dusted off his old olive-drab Iraqi military fatigues and joined Fallujah's new army brigade under the command of a former general who served under Saddam Hussein's regime.

Now he carries a shiny black assault rifle as he patrols Jolan, a neighborhood where some of the fiercest fighting took place. He mans military checkpoints. And he says he and his comrades in the 1st Fallujah Brigade are the solution to the monthlong fighting between the insurgents and the Marines.

"We are protecting the city so the coalition forces cannot come here again," Harhoush said.

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Many brigade members said they had fought the Marines in almost daily battles beginning April 5, when the Marines laid siege to the city to force residents to hand over those responsible for killing and mutilating the bodies of four civilian contractors March 31.

"Every one of us participated in defending Fallujah," Omar said. "Everybody had weapons."

"I also fought," Harhoush said.

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But prominent members of Iraq's Governing Council objected to Saleh's military past and high rank in the Baath Party, and he was replaced with another commander in Saddam's army, Gen. Mohammed Abdul-Latif, whose tribe is from Fallujah.

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In an old theater that became a makeshift hospital during the siege, metal cots and mattresses still filled the stage. Seats were piled with boxes of medical supplies, including cough syrup, gauze and syringes. Surgical caps were scattered on the floor.

US/military viewpoint

 

News Source
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Author
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Title
KR
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ROBERT MORAN
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WITH U.S. MARINES GONE, QUIET RETURNS TO BATTLE-SCARRED FALLUJAH
Specific incidents / deaths  
Date killed?  
Total  
Civilian / Fighter  
Cumulative deaths [and injuries]

Dr. Rafe Hyad al Esawi, director of the Fallujah General Hospital, said the number of people killed exceeded 800 with more than 3,000 wounded.

U.S. authorities say those figures are exaggerated, but al Esawi stood by his numbers and said they are growing because many people could not reach the hospital during the fighting to report deaths.

"Some of the families buried their dead in their gardens," al Esawi said. "Now they are starting to come to the hospital to register."

Date range? 5th April-9th May?
Total 800+
(update)
[3000+ wounded]
Civilian / Fighter  
Selected info, comment, analysis

The one thing for certain in Fallujah is that most Iraqis here don't want to see the U.S. Marines again. And some threaten to restart the battle if the Americans return.

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At the city hospital on Sunday, families of the injured quietly dealt as best they could with suffering that has yet to end.

In one recovery room, relatives sat by the bed of a teenage boy who was paralyzed and brain damaged from shrapnel that struck his head a month ago. He had a tube in his nose and his breathing was labored. His eyes were wide open but a doctor said he was barely conscious.

"Maybe in six months he may get better," said the boy's uncle, Talib Shalesh, 45. "Maybe he will die at any moment."

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Just days ago the neighborhood was filled with the sounds of shooting and explosions, recalled Mahmoud Abed, 40. Now it was quiet.

"We asked God for this quiet," Abed said.

US/military viewpoint  

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