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She describes how mosques in the city were heavily targeted by US occupation forces despite their clearly-marked minarets
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CAIRO,
December 3 (IslamOnline.net) - More that three weeks after a heavy US
massive offensive, Fallujah stands as a sort of ghost city, with
deserted homes and roads, thick smoke and ubiquitous destruction, a
reporter who accompanied an Iraqi Red Crescent said.
The
reporter described in an article, published by Egyptian
English-language newspaper, Al-Ahram Weekly on Thursday,
December 2, how people in the city are traumatized by the loss of
their relatives and destruction of their homes.
She
describes how mosques in the city were heavily targeted by US
occupation forces despite their clearly-marked minarets.
"On
our right is the Askari district with its fancy villas now in ruins. A
nearby mosque has lost one of its minarets, and another is peppered
with shellfire. On our left is the industrial area, its workshops all
burnt out or demolished"
I
meet Haj Fouad Al-Kebeisi, 54, who works as a volunteer with the RC,
burying the dead. Al-Kebeisi tells me how Haj Radif Abdel-Wahed, 90,
the oldest merchant in Fallujah, died. Abdel-Wahed was in the yard
doing his ablutions before prayers when a sniper bullet hit him. His
children buried him in the garden."
The
reporter said the RC convoy vehicles were also targeted by the US
occupation forces through rigid search and long waiting hours.
"We
don't expect the convoy to be stopped, as it bears the flag of a
neutral international organization. But instead we do stop, for a long
time. Permits have to be obtained. The convoy vehicles and passengers
are searched. Then we wait some more. A truck arrives carrying
bedding, food, and a sign reading 'Relief to Fallujah the steadfast'.
The truck is turned back."
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