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Greeting, Following is the latest from www.truthout.org : Editor's Note | This paragraph from our lead story tells a horrifying tale: "The steadily deteriorating security situation in the Falluja area, west of Baghdad, has become so dangerous that no American troops or Iraqi security staff members responded to the attack today. There are a number of police stations in Falluja and a base of more than 4,000 marines nearby. But even while the two vehicles burned, sending plumes of inky smoke over the closed shops of the city, there were no ambulances, no fire engines and no security present." These people burned to death after the attack, and their bodies were mutilated and eventually suspended from a bridge. What remained was barely recognizable as human. No one came to their aid. Such is the level of fear and violence in the newly liberated Iraq. The number of dead American soldiers from this invasion and occupation will soon pass 600. We hope members of the Bush administration will take a long, hard look at the disturbing pictures on our main page of what remained of these people. We apologize to our readership for the graphic nature of these photos, but the wretched truth of this situation must be told in all of its horror. - wrp Go to Original Enraged Mob in Falluja Kills 4 American Contractors By John F. Burns and Jeffrey Gettleman The New York Times Wednesday 31 March 2004 FALLUJA, Iraq, March 31 — An enraged mob attacked four American contractors here today, shooting them to death, burning their vehicles, dragging their bodies through the downtown streets and then hanging the charred corpses from a bridge over the Euphrates River. A State Department spokesman, Lou Fintor, confirming the nationalities today, said neither the names of the victims nor the name of the company for which they worked would be immediately released. Meanwhile, less than 15 miles away, in the same area of the increasingly violent Sunni Triangle, five marines were killed in one of the deadliest roadside bomb incidents for coalition troops in weeks. The marines were traveling through a dusty village along a supply route when the explosion ripped into their vehicles. The steadily deteriorating security situation in the Falluja area, west of Baghdad, has become so dangerous that no American soldiers or Iraqi security staff responded to the attack against the contractors. There are a number of police stations in Falluja and a base of more than 4,000 marines nearby. But even while the two vehicles burned, sending plumes of inky smoke over the closed shops of the city, there were no ambulances, no fire engines and no security. Instead, Falluja's streets were thick with men and boys and chaos. Boys with scarves over their faces hurled bricks into the burning vehicles. A group of men dragged one of the smoldering corpses into the street and ripped it apart. Someone then tied a chunk of flesh to a rock and tossed it over a telephone wire. "Viva mujahadeen!" shouted Said Khalaf, a taxi driver. "Long live the resistance!" Nearby, a boy no older than 10 put his foot on the head of a body and said: "Where is Bush? Let him come here and see this!" Many people in the crowd said they felt as if they had won an important battle. Others said they thought that the contractors, who were driving in four-wheel-drive trucks, were working for the Central Intelligence Agency. "This is what these spies deserve," said Salam Aldulayme, a 28-year-old Falluja resident. The attack on the American military vehicle occurred in Al Anbar province, a wellspring of resistance to occupation forces, said Sgt. James Oleen, a military spokesman in Baghdad. The military offered no further information on the incident. Witnesses said the attack occurred in Malahma, 12 miles northwest of Falluja, The Associated Press reported. After the attack in Falluja, residents told The A.P. that the burned cars contained weapons and that some of the bodies were dressed in flak jackets. The A.P. television network showed one American passport near a body and a United States Department of Defense identification card belonging to another man. The series of deadly attacks on American troops and foreign civilians in the Sunni Triangle area of central Iraq, particularly around Falluja, and a similar spate of attacks in the northern oil city of Mosul, have raised doubts about the cautiously optimistic appraisal of American progress in the war that has been common among United States generals since the beginning of the year. Military officials have said that the capture of Saddam Hussein on Dec. 13 and documents seized with him had allowed them to penetrate the cell structure of that part of the insurgency that sought to restore a "Saddamist" or Baathist government to Iraq, with the Sunni minority once again dominating the majority Shiites. American generals have said that these breakthroughs had given them the upper hand in the battle against Saddam loyalists and created the conditions for the American occupation authority to move forward with confidence to the planned handover of sovereignty under an interim government on June 30 and to an elected government in January 2006. At the same time, the generals have been saying that their main focus in the conflict has shifted to Islamic terrorists who they believe to have been responsible for many suicide bombings and other attacks on the Iraqi police, civilians and foreigners. These attacks, they say, have effectively carried the Iraqi conflict into a new landscape that makes the fighting here part of the worldwide war on terrorism. But today's events at Falluja indicate that the war may not have changed as much as the generals have suggested. The fact that the attack on the civilian vehicles occurred in Falluja, an overwhelming Sunni city that is the most volatile stronghold of support for Mr. Hussein, and that it followed a 10-day offensive by United States marines aimed at gaining effective control of the city, suggested that the current war may, in practice, be an extension of the conflict that began last year. Capt. Chris Logan of the Marine Corps said today that the city was becoming "an area of greater concern." He added: "This is one of those areas in Iraq that is definitely squirrely. The guerrillas in Falluja are testing us. They're testing our resolve." In a modulation of their assessments in recent days, the generals had begun to say that there may be a merging of diehard loyalists to Mr. Hussein and Islamic militants, with the two groups at least loosely coordinating their attacks. On Tuesday, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, spokesman for the American command, who had previously emphasized the growing role of Islamic terrorists in the conflict, said at a news conference that the military no longer considered the distinction between Saddam loyalists and militant Islamists to be so significant from the viewpoint of military operations. "I'm not sure trying to over-classify these different groups is helpful," he said. "It might help somehow in the intelligence community, in terms of trying to find out where they come from and trying to find some trails onto them. But on the operations side we just call them targets." ------- Jeffrey Gettleman reported from Falluja for this article and John F. Burns reported from Baghdad. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Go to Original U.S. Soldier Killed in Iraq Blast By The Associated Press Wednesday 31 March 2004 ONE US soldier was killed and another was wounded in a bomb explosion west of Baghdad on Tuesday, the US military said. The injured soldier was airlifted to a combat support hospital after the explosion near Ramadi, said Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the US military's deputy director of operations. US Marines operate in the area, but Kimmitt did not say whether the casualties were Marines. --------------------- - BACK TO INDEX - REPLY - QUOTE - EDIT - DELETE -

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