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Name
Khalid
- Malaysia
Profession
student
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Assalamu alaykum
I would like to thank you for giving us the honour to talk to someone from that great city of Fallujah, the symbol of dignity and pride of every Muslim from today onward.
My question is: How many people have been killed by the Americans in Fallujah and will the fighters be able to counter any future American attacks, in case they want to enter the city?
Thank you.
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In the name of Allah, I thank you, too, for your comment. More than 800 civilians were killed. Most of them were children, women and old people, because the jet fighthers and the helicopters targeted mosques, houses, and even health centers. And I think that resistance fighters there are the ordinary people of Fallujah. They fight to defend and protect their town until the last drop. I hope they can continue to fight.
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mo
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Profession
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Do Iraqi physicians have sufficient hospital equipment to serve the innocent people getting injured and killed from the terrorists (occupation forces)?
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There is a lot of shortage in most of our hospitals in medical equipment. As you know, when helicopters and jet fighters target any town, anywhere, with a lot of people, there will be a lot of injuries, with severely crushed injuries, which requires a lot of staff available at the moment and rapid action, which is usually not the case. It can't help 50 injured people or more at the same time, especially when the main hospital was under American control, where they did not allow any injured persons to reach the hospital.
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Faisal
- Canada
Profession
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Are there any injured and dead Americans soldiers coming for treatment to your hospital because there field hospital is far away?
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In fact, I haven't seen any injured American soldiers coming to Al-Fallujah temporary hospital. They usually take their injured soldiers to special forces bases. I haven't seen any American soldiers injured in the hospital I work at in Baghdad either.
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K
- United States
Profession
health care professional
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I am quite taken aback by all the violence. Why now at least 68 Iraqis were killed and scores more hurt today in a wave of rush-hour suicide bombings near Iraqi police facilities in Basra. Eighteen schoolchildren were among those killed in five attacks. Now these people that are behind these types of things. Are they doing it for Islam? I don't understand the motive. Maybe you have a better insight.
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In Iraq, there is a real Islamic resistance. There are fighters who don't belong to the Iraqi resistance. They commit bombings randomly. Personally, I don't think they belong to the Iraqi Islamic resistance or Iraqi resistance in general.
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sad sister
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What can we do???? I want to help somehow. Is the internet easily availabe there? Do you know how we can send at least a letter of support and solidarity to the people of Iraq? What are the first area code numbers and a few different combinations for residential phone lines in the area of Fallujah? I am thinking of randomly calling people to tell them we care.
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To call Fallujah, dial first, Iraq's code (009641), then (024665), then any three digits.
I don't know whether the Internet is available in Fallujah.
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Soraya
- Canada
Profession
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Assalamualaikum
Everyday we watch the news and feel pity for the Iraqis.
What can Muslims living in the West do to help them in any way?
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Thank you for asking. We just want you to continue to worship Allah and ask Him, during your prayers, to help us. We want you to try your best to catch the basics of Islam.
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Muslimah
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Profession
Doctor
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Asalamu Alaykum
How do the health care facilities of today's Iraq differ from those in Saddam's era? Are the doctors and the rest of the medical staff being paid as they were before?
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Medical equipment, most of it, was either destroyed or stolen after the American forces entered Iraq. So there is a lot of shortage in medical equipment and laboratory test material, which were available before the occupation.
The salaries of medical staff and sub-staff differ from one ministry to another and from one hospital to another. For example, the teaching staff and the surgeons, cradiologists, orthopeditics, ophthologists - their salaries were reduced to half, or lower than half. But others, for example, most of sub-staff and the newly employed doctors - their salaries increased.
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Nada
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Profession
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Could you give us a brief description of the types of injuries you have seen in civilian victims?
It is important for me to know how these injuries reflect the types of weapons that were used. So could you also describe how those injuries could have been caused, in detail?
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Most of the injuries are due to the fall of the bombs. Children and women were targeted by snipers in fatal sites, like the head, the left side of the chest, or crushed injury affecting most of the body with multiple fractures.
The types of weapons used are jet fighters, helicopters, tanks and heavy artillary - in addition to the snipers.
I will tell you a real story of one of the injured civilians. He told me that his four brothers, in the same house, all of them are married and they have children. When he heard the sound of the helicopters and jet fighters, he tried to protect his wife and children. He put them in between his arms. But unfortunately, the bombs fell on his house, which led to the death of his wife and children between his arms. And he had his foot amputated and maprotomy was done to him. Two of his brothers, with their wives and children, and the wife and children of his third brother, died. The ones who remained alive from all the four families were only two persons.
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Dina
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Profession
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Do the American forces target the hospitals and ambulances on purpose?
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They insist on targeting the health centers and the ambulances, and they kill the drivers of the ambulances with their assistant medical staff. They did this many times. So most of the ambulances cannot reach the injured civilians because the snipers insist on targeting them.
The only hospital in Al-Fallujah is under the control of the American forces, who shoot anyone trying to approach it.
