According to Allbritton, the movements of U.S. soldiers continue suffer attacks - from insurgent snipers, car bombs and I.E.D.s (improvised explosive devices), as well as rocket and mortar attacks on U.S. “The Marines man five entry checkpoints turning away anyone who can’t provide proper credentials or who seems suspicious.”ĭespite the city’s lock-down, U.S. “The military has closed the city to the outside world, allowing people in only after they show ID cards that they are residents of Fallujah,” Allbritton reported.

military has implemented extreme police-state measures (even by the far from liberal standards of the rest of the “new Iraq”), which seal Fallujah off from the rest of the country. In an attempt to control the city’s still-hostile population, the U.S. In many respects, the city reflects less the progress of the U.S. 6 New York Times article on Fallujah’s reoccupation, with the headline rider “Why the Iraqi city the Americans conquered a year ago is still a threat,” reporter Chris Allbritton explained that “like much else about the war in Iraq, Fallujah hasn’t turned out as the U.S. occupation forces in Iraq may have a proven aptitude for destruction, but their ability to convince Iraqis to accept the occupation - through either cajoling them by offering an ever-thinning facade of sovereignty or intimidating them through displays of brute force - has proved far less. As conquest of Fallujah has illustrated, the U.S. But the reoccupation of the city was a pyrrhic victory for Washington. military’s assault on the rebel Iraqi city located 55 kilometers west of Baghdad): “No government can allow terrorists and foreign fighters to use its soil to attack its people and to attack its government, and to intimidate the Iraqi people.”Īs with the White House’s broader project of “liberating” Iraq, the “liberation” of Fallujah came at a terrible cost to Iraqis. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters on the day of the launch of Operation Phantom Fury (the codename for the U.S. “The operation will liberate the people of Fallujah and begin the reconstruction of the city and the restoration of normal life.”

General George Casey told a press briefing on Nov. “Tonight, Iraqi security and coalition forces kicked off offensive operations to eliminate the terrorist and insurgent safe haven in Fallujah and to restore control to the Iraqi government,” U.S.

Marines from 1st Platoon Echo Company 2nd Battalion 7th Marine Regiment conduct a foot patrol through the streets of Fallujah earlier this month. Iraq A Year since Fallujah’s “Liberation,” Resistance Continues

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