Monday, November 08, 2004
Fallujah as the World Looks On
The
first target of the military assault on Fallujah
was the hospital.
According to an article in the New York Times (8 Nov 2004):
The
hospital was selected as an early target because the American
military believed that it was the source of rumors about heavy
casualties.
"It's a center of propaganda,"
a senior American officer said Sunday.
Rahul Majahan, who reported from Fallujah in April, wrote today:
When
I was there [in April], the stream of casualties I saw coming
into one minor clinic during a few hours was fully consistent
with the doctors' claims -- as was the evidence from the graves
that journalists saw later on. This time around, one of the targets
of the assault is information; as little as possible about civilian
casualties is to be allowed out to the world. This is a shameless
violation of the laws of war and a sign that much worse can be
expected once the
Views from around the world:
- "Assault on besieged Falluja under way" (Aljazeera & Agencies, 9 Nov 2004)
- "Beginning of the end?" by Paul Reynolds (BBC, 8 Nov 2004)
- "US Forces Unleash 'Phantom Fury' to Seize Fallujah" (AFP, 8 Nov 2004)
- "Holy War: Evangelical Marines Prepare to Battle Barbarians" (AFP, 7 Nov 2004)
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