Tony Blair, Father of 4, Killer of many more.
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Falluja - April 29th 2003 to April 29th 2004
American forces have surrounded Falluja, which is 50 km from Baghdad, since
the public killing there of four US security guards or mercenaries. The deaths of the 4 men, as brutal as they were, were bound to happen as the Americans have allowed
Iraq to become a hotbed of mercenary activity with many veterans of vicious mercenary
campaigns seeing it as a good earner. The Iraqis on the other hand, would not be too
endeared by these mercenaries. Hired guns are never the most popular of participants
in a war. Are the lives of these 4 American mercenaries worth the lives of American
soldiers and some 600 people who have been killed in the fighting in and around
Falluja so far?
April 29th 2003
In Falluja a year ago on April 29th 2003, U.S. soldiers killed and wounded
dozens of demonstrators. BBC's News at One devoted 3 minutes and 10 seconds to
the killing of 20 and wounding of some 75 Iraqi civilian protestors by US troops.
The demonstrators were unarmed and had gone to a local school occupied by US forces
to ask them to leave, Reuters news agency reported on the matter as it does on most
incidents of note. Falluja had been spared from the ground war in March and April
of 2003, but had been bombed from the air, creating resentment when U.S. soldiers
from the 82nd Airborne Division arrived April 23rd 2003 and occupied the local
school which would become the place where US Troops ruined any chance of locals
seeing them as 'liberators'. A day later, on the 30th of April 2003, US troops
were at it again, this time a U.S. military convoy driving through the town went
through the midst of another demonstration, and opened fire on protesters,
killing three and wounding at least 16 more. The soldiers, as usual, claimed
they had come under fire, but the locals claimed that no shots had been
fired from the Iraqi side. ( Full report on the 2003 incidents in Falluja
from the Human Rights Watch commission
- here )
April 29th 2004
Now, a year to the day that the USA killed the civilians protesting,
the memory of that day has obviously vanished for some as events continue. But for
the people of Falluja, the memory of that attack on their town, or the memory of
the bombs dropped from miles above, has not faded so fast. Today, the 29th April
2004, US soldiers fired on a minibus full of civilians near a checkpoint on the
outskirts of Falluja. Witnesses reported that 'a hail of bullets from occupation
forces on Thursday turned the vehicle into a ball of fire'. Iraqi policeman Fuad
al-Hamdani said 'four civilians were killed in the unprovoked attack'.
(reported on Aljazeera Arab News network) Imagine facing incidents like this day in and day out?
Resistance in Falluja, Iraq
Falluja has become a byword for resistance in Iraq, and the people there
have held back the Worlds biggest Army with nothing more than explosives, guns and a
bravery which the Western media shies away from pondering too much on. These people
have laid down their lives for others. To the people of Iraq they will be heroes
or martyrs. We often praised the Viet Cong for resisting the Americans, but not
the Iraqis. But looking at video footage of young Iraqis wearing Iraq football
tops and queuing up in the alleyways with Rocket propelled grenade launchers,
this image, when compared with the heavily armoured and tooled up Yanks, seems
to leave sympathy for the Iraqis.
Insurgents.
The current siege and the ongoing warfare has been brutal up with
the USA using artillery shellfire and F-16s and Navy F-18 aircraft, plus the
terrifying AC-130H gunship dropping bombs on what is a heavily built up residential
area. Helicopter gunships have also been allowed to blast the town with deadly
cannon fire. USA snipers are picking off almost anything that moves, they are
stuck in a land which has not really seen them as liberators, and nor do they
see themselves as such anymore, if they ever did. The American troops have been
duped into serving over the year they were told they would do, both they and
UK and other troops were lied to when they were told they were on a mission
to capture 'weapons of mass destruction'. Troops out there now call the
Iraqis fighting them 'the resistance' or 'guerrillas' - its only the
Top Brass who still cling to talk of 'insurgents' 'terrorists' or
even 'elements of Saddam's old regime'. US Troops on the ground recognise they
are fighting a clever enemy which has adapted to the tactics of classic guerrilla warfare. Blair
still trots out the tired old worn out excuses about 'elements of Saddams old regime'
when commenting on the situation.
We bomb someone's Country to Hell, we kill over 10,000 civilians, and then, when
they shoot a few of us, we call them 'terrorists.' This is double standards in
practice if ever there was. Who said Irony was dead?
Liverpool would be England's Falluja
UK troops have so far avoided the casualties that the Americans are taking,
but remember that the presence of UK troops may expand to more volatile regions
and our continued presence there is liable to lead to an attack on the British
public. The situation brings to mind the IRA's threat that they had only to be
lucky one time, whilst we had to be lucky all the time. So far, we've been lucky,
but England is pushing her luck, or Blair is, by continued support of expansionist
American policies and the blatant theft of a Nations resources. We cannot blame
the Iraqis for fighting. We'd do the same ourselves. Liverpool, one would like
to believe, would be England's Fallujah.
Falluja
It was reported by Reuters news agency on the afternoon of Friday 29th April
that the US Troops will be pulling out this evening, but the deaths of 10 more USA
troops today in and around Baghdad, may well force some of the more gung ho American
commanders to continue the aggression.
Aljazeera (here) now reports that 3 more
districts of Falluja, have been bombed and that the Pentagon in the USA is denying that
a deal involving 1100 Iraqi Troops will be allowed to patrol Falluja whilst the Marines
pull out. America may well be preparing to go in. Bush may well see this continued
defiance by the people of Falluja as something that needs to be crushed. The deadline
for giving Iraq some from of self control is heading towards disaster on a scale which
has surprised the Americans. At least 125 Americans lie dead now, killed in the month
of April. Many other Americans are secretly shipped home and patched up and flown
back if they can walk talk and count to 10. But over 600 people from Falluja lie
buried in the Iraq soil, this includes women and children.
Update: One of Saddam's old Generals (elements of the former regime!) has been roped in
by the U$A to lead a force of some 1100 Iraqi Soldiers and Police who will apparently
arrest the people responsible for the killing of the 4 mercenaries. America is also in
big trouble after photos of Iraqi prisoners being tortured have been circulated far
and wide. Americans are still wondering why they were shocked and awed on Sept 11,
maybe it's because Americans have supervised and participated in the torture of
people all over the world. Only now, in an age where every 2nd person in the
West seems to have a digital camera at hand, does the evidence appear to us.
Friendly Fire
To any lads from Kirkby in the Army reading this - I hope you make it home,
but I think you can work out that the reason for you being in Iraq is to help American
Oil interests. Blair lied to you - and your local MP backed him up in Parliament.
Kirkby's New Labour Councillors by their silence over the War and their continued
support of the War mongerer George Howarth MP, are in effect just another set of
cogs in the machinery of war. How many of Kirkby's councillors would take a gun
up against the people of Falluja? Answers on a postcard to the 'Two Faced
Gutless Ranks of Knowsley's New Labour Party' competition here at your local
friendly fire website.
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