Iraq - Falluja - The Fall and Fall Out

Guardian Films
Iraq - Falluja - The Fall and Fall Out
Wed Jan 12, 2005 06:08
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Video: 15:00 minutes

Iraq - Falluja - The Fall and Fall Out

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Two months after the US launched its biggest ever assault on Fallujah, soldiers are still dying there. In this exclusive report, Guardian Films uncover what really happened.

It was billed as a resounding military success. Over 1,200 insurgents were meant to have been killed and another 2,000 trapped inside Fallujah. But now this version of events is being challenged. Far from being crushed, rebels claim they left the city in an organised withdrawal. “It was a tactical move,” explains insurgent leader Alazaim Abuthe. “The fighters decided to redeploy to Amiriya.” Before they left, fighters booby-trapped many bodies.

People are too scared to move them so the corpses lie rotting all over the city. Rabid dogs feed off them and then attack returning residents. Far from stabilising Iraq in preparation for this month’s election, the assault on Falluja has fanned the flames of civil war. Today Fallujans are too busy trying to stay alive in freezing refugee camps to worry about ballot papers that haven’t arrived for an election they have no intention of voting in. As one resident comments, “We’re not interested in this sort of democracy.”
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