FALLUJA---NOT WHAT THE MEDIA IS TELLING YOU

Falluja's struggle after invasion

By Dahr Jamail

Al-Jazeera (I highly recommend reading the piece on the Al-Jazeera website, as it includes photos and video)By Dahr JamailFive years ago, George Bush, the US president, announced aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier that the war in Iraq was a "mission accomplished".

But events in the western Anbar province had already been spiralling out of control and were threatening the volatile security situation in occupied Iraq.

On April 28, 2003, US soldiers occupying the Al-Qaid school in Falluja opened fire on dozens of demonstrators who had been protesting the use of the premises as a forward base for the US 82nd Airborne Division.

Residents of Falluja had also been protesting against the use of night vision goggles, which they mistakenly believed were used by US soldiers to spy on their wives and daughters.

Click on this link to read the full story of the plight of Faulluja: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/093992AB-96A7-45DE-966E-9F0726706DE0.htm