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Richard Haut
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 Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 1:05 pm Post subject: a city destroyed |
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7,000 houses destroyed or partly destroyed in the various neighborhoods of the city.
8,400 shops, stores, factories, construction centers, construction equipment sales offices, and medical clinics were destroyed.
Sixty-five mosques were demolished - most of then entirely and wiped from the face of the earth, some others suffered the loss of their minarets and the destruction of their sanctuaries.
Fifty-nine primary, middle, and secondary schools, teaching institutes, technical and trade schools, and kindergartens were destroyed.
Thirteen Iraqi government buildings were destroyed.
Two electric power stations were destroyed and the three water purification plants in the city were destroyed.Ê Two train stations linking Iraq with neighboring countries were destroyed.Ê Largely destroyed also was the network for the drainage of sewer and rain water.
One bridge was damaged to the point that it cannot now be used for crossing the Euphrates west of the city.
More than 100,000 domesticated animals were killed in the city as a result of the Americans use of poisoned gas and other chemical substances.Ê These include sheep, cows, water buffalo, chickens and other fowl in the fields and pens around the city.
Several historical libraries were burned down that contained some of the most valuable books of Islamic sciences.Ê There were four libraries each containing hundreds if not thousands of volumes, Dr. ad-Dulaymi said.
Relics of the Abbasi period in the Middle Ages were destroyed in the area of as-Saqlawiyah north of the city.Ê This was done in such a way that observers are lead to believe that the destruction was deliberate.Ê These were totally demolished.Ê On the site were the hills on which were the Palace of Abu al-Abbas as-Saffah.
In an interview with Mafkarat al-Islam, Dr. ad-Dulaymi called on all international bodies and news agencies to come to the city, take photographs, and assess the extent of the destruction left by the US forces in al-Fallujah.
When asked about Iraqi human losses among the civilians, ad-Dulaymi said, That is a difficult question to answer because the number is very much open.Ê This is particularly true after last week when the Iraqi Resistance resumed activity on a significant level in the city.
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the above is taken from an interview with Dr. Hafiz ad-Dulaymi, the Chairman of the Committee for Compensation of the People of the City of al-Fallujah.
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SDR
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Location: San Francisco
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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Funny, isn't it, how NOT ONE WORD of this list has appeared in the American press -- not even the "alternative" sources. . .?
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Richard Haut
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a description by a decent, brave American - from the Santa Barbara Independent:
I talked to a 17-year-old girl who saw her father and mother shot by Marines. She was hiding under the bed with her brother when her parents bodies dropped on the ground in front of her them... Her parents brains were on the floor. The girl and her brother stayed under the bed for three days, until the Marines came back, and this time they found her and her brother. They shot her brother in the head and they shot her three times, in the chest and the legs. When she told me about it, I had to look down. I felt I was personally responsible. And she did too.
http://www.independent.com/cover/Cover956.htm
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