By: Emile Tayyip
Every day, the U.S. occupation forces in Iraq attack civilians in a calculated effort to drown a growing popular anti-occupation resistance in blood. But the dimensions of the atrocities being carried out in the name of fighting “insurgency” are not being clearly reported by the “reputable” media outlets across the world. They’re actually being either underreported or totally ignored.
And after more than two years of its massive military campaign that killed scores of innocent people in Fallujah, the U.S. is now carrying out a 'genocidal' strategy in the volatile al-Anbar province west of the Iraqi capital.
The U.S. occupation forces, joined by Iraqi soldiers are currently engaged in a new genocidal campaign against residents of the volatile city of Fallujah, a recent report on Uruknet.Info said, citing residents’ accounts.
They kill people arrested during their military operations that include home raids in the Iraqi city that witnessed the bloodiest military campaign by the occupation forces in collaboration with the puppet government where more than 2,085 people were killed and 1,600 detained in November 2004.
"Seventeen young men were found executed after they were arrested by U.S. troops and Fallujah police," 40-year-old Yassen of Fallujah told IPS. "My two sons have been detained by police, and I am terrified that they will have the same fate. They are only 17 and 18 years old."
Hundreds of men are held at detention centers across the city without legal representation.
Residents say that many people get killed everyday as a result of random fire which they said has become routine for the U.S. and the Iraqi forces who’re joining them in the campaign.
Among incidents cited by the city residents was that involving Sa'ad, a 25-year-old from the al-Thubbat area of western Fallujah.
Sa’ad "kept running home every time he saw U.S. soldiers," a man from his neighbourhood told IPS, describing him as “the poor guy”.
"He used to say: Go inside or the Americans will kill you."
Sa’ad, whom his neighbours say have developed a mental disability, was recently shot dead by U.S. soldiers who claimed that they opened fire at him after their patrol came under attack.
IPS said it has obtained photographs of what it described as an elderly man whom the U.S. troops murdered last month.
"Last month was full of horrifying events," a retired police officer from Fallujah told IPS. "Three men were executed by American soldiers in the al-Bu Issa tribal area just outside Fallujah. One of them was 70 years old and known as a very good man, and the others were his relatives. They were asleep when the raid was conducted."
IPS also cited remarks by Khalid Haleem, from al-Qa'im, in which he said that "seven people were executed in al-Qa'im recently, at the Syrian border,"
"They were gathering at a friend's place for dinner when Americans surrounded the house, with armored vehicles with helicopters covering them from the air. Those killed were good men and we believe the Americans were misinformed."
Not just that.
The occupation forces also inflicted serious damage on the highest minaret in Fallujah, saying it was a retaliatory attack that was carried out in response to attacks targeting them.
"They hate us because we are Muslims, and no one can argue with that any more," 65- year-old Abu Fayssal who witnessed the event told IPS. "They say they are fighting al- Qeada but they are only capable of killing our sons with their genocidal campaign and destroying our mosques."
"It is our people killing each other now as planned by the Americans," Abdul Sattar, a 45- year-old lawyer and human rights activist in Fallujah told IPS. "They recruited Saddam's security men to control the situation by well-known methods like hanging people by their legs and electrifying them in order to get information. Now they are executing them without trial."
Witnessing their brothers, sons, daughters and sisters, elders and children getting killed everyday by the occupation forces, the vast majority of Iraqis now openly support attacks against the U.S. army.
"The genocidal Americans are paying for all that," a young man from Fallujah told IPS.
The fact that the U.S. is resorting to slaughtering and targeting civilian populations to fight the Iraqi resistance testifies to the fact that the American occupation is not welcomed by the Iraqi nation as the biased Western media claims, but actually hated and despised by the Iraqi masses.
Every day, the U.S. occupation forces in Iraq attack civilians in a calculated effort to drown a growing popular anti-occupation resistance in blood. But the dimensions of the atrocities being carried out in the name of fighting “insurgency” are not being clearly reported by the “reputable” media outlets across the world. They’re actually being either underreported or totally ignored.
And after more than two years of its massive military campaign that killed scores of innocent people in Fallujah, the U.S. is now carrying out a 'genocidal' strategy in the volatile al-Anbar province west of the Iraqi capital.
The U.S. occupation forces, joined by Iraqi soldiers are currently engaged in a new genocidal campaign against residents of the volatile city of Fallujah, a recent report on Uruknet.Info said, citing residents’ accounts.
They kill people arrested during their military operations that include home raids in the Iraqi city that witnessed the bloodiest military campaign by the occupation forces in collaboration with the puppet government where more than 2,085 people were killed and 1,600 detained in November 2004.
"Seventeen young men were found executed after they were arrested by U.S. troops and Fallujah police," 40-year-old Yassen of Fallujah told IPS. "My two sons have been detained by police, and I am terrified that they will have the same fate. They are only 17 and 18 years old."
Hundreds of men are held at detention centers across the city without legal representation.
Residents say that many people get killed everyday as a result of random fire which they said has become routine for the U.S. and the Iraqi forces who’re joining them in the campaign.
Among incidents cited by the city residents was that involving Sa'ad, a 25-year-old from the al-Thubbat area of western Fallujah.
Sa’ad "kept running home every time he saw U.S. soldiers," a man from his neighbourhood told IPS, describing him as “the poor guy”.
"He used to say: Go inside or the Americans will kill you."
Sa’ad, whom his neighbours say have developed a mental disability, was recently shot dead by U.S. soldiers who claimed that they opened fire at him after their patrol came under attack.
IPS said it has obtained photographs of what it described as an elderly man whom the U.S. troops murdered last month.
"Last month was full of horrifying events," a retired police officer from Fallujah told IPS. "Three men were executed by American soldiers in the al-Bu Issa tribal area just outside Fallujah. One of them was 70 years old and known as a very good man, and the others were his relatives. They were asleep when the raid was conducted."
IPS also cited remarks by Khalid Haleem, from al-Qa'im, in which he said that "seven people were executed in al-Qa'im recently, at the Syrian border,"
"They were gathering at a friend's place for dinner when Americans surrounded the house, with armored vehicles with helicopters covering them from the air. Those killed were good men and we believe the Americans were misinformed."
Not just that.
The occupation forces also inflicted serious damage on the highest minaret in Fallujah, saying it was a retaliatory attack that was carried out in response to attacks targeting them.
"They hate us because we are Muslims, and no one can argue with that any more," 65- year-old Abu Fayssal who witnessed the event told IPS. "They say they are fighting al- Qeada but they are only capable of killing our sons with their genocidal campaign and destroying our mosques."
"It is our people killing each other now as planned by the Americans," Abdul Sattar, a 45- year-old lawyer and human rights activist in Fallujah told IPS. "They recruited Saddam's security men to control the situation by well-known methods like hanging people by their legs and electrifying them in order to get information. Now they are executing them without trial."
Witnessing their brothers, sons, daughters and sisters, elders and children getting killed everyday by the occupation forces, the vast majority of Iraqis now openly support attacks against the U.S. army.
"The genocidal Americans are paying for all that," a young man from Fallujah told IPS.
The fact that the U.S. is resorting to slaughtering and targeting civilian populations to fight the Iraqi resistance testifies to the fact that the American occupation is not welcomed by the Iraqi nation as the biased Western media claims, but actually hated and despised by the Iraqi masses.
