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What really happened at Fallujah

Can be found in the Socialist Worker:

Young boy found dead in a house in the Jolan quarter of Fallujah

Young boy found dead in a house in the Jolan quarter of Fallujah

IT WAS the smell that first hit me, a smell that is difficult to describe, and one that will never leave me. It was the smell of death. Hundreds of corpses were decomposing in the houses, gardens and streets of Fallujah. Bodies were rotting where they had fallen? bodies of men, women and children, many half-eaten by wild dogs.

A wave of hate had wiped out two- thirds of the town, destroying houses and mosques, schools and clinics. This was the terrible and frightening power of the US military assault.