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04/07/2004:
"Iraq: The "People's War" is Just Beginning"
The death and mutilation of 4 American 'private contractors' in Falluja and the subsequent rising of the Shiites suggests the insurgency has taken another step toward people's war. Iraqis indicate the violence in Faluja was in retaliation for the First Marine Expeditionary Force's attacks last week on the Fallujans to "put them in their place." While the Marines did not intervene yesterday to halt the carnage, fearing an ambush, the American high command has indicated "we will pacify that city." The Shiite uprising was caused by the U.S. occupation authority’s closing of a Shiite newspaper for printing allegedly false stories and the arrest of a militant cleric's chief aide.Only a little over a year ago, neo-conservative pundits were assuring the American people that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the occupation of Iraq would be a piece of cake. (General Eric Shenseki was sacked from the Army for suggesting otherwise.)
www.independent.org/tii/news/040406Marina.html
