2004/12/23

     The Second Battle of Fallujah (Iraq) concludes: After seven weeks of house-to-house fighting, United states Marine Corps Lieutenant General Richard F. Natonski (private mercenary), commanding the First Marine Division defeats several homegrown militias commanded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abdullah al-Janabi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri.  Omar Hadid was killed in the conflict. 

       One of first objectives met during the eight-month bombardment, which preceded the assault was the destruction of all hospitals in the city.

       NOTES:

• Although the mainstream media extensively covered the siege, they did not report war crimes such as the cessation of water and electricity, helicopter gun-ships strafing civilians attempting to flee across the Euphrates River, or even the unborn child of Artica Salim being ripped from her body when a phosphorus bomb hit her home.

• “Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukemia” in Fallujah since 2004 have “exceeded those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945”:

• • Cancers across all age groups increased four-fold;
  • Breast cancer cases increased ten-fold;
  • Cancers among children under the age of 14 increased twelve-fold;
  • Incidences of leukemia increased thirty-eight-fold—more than twice that of Hiroshima, Japan following its nuclear bombing in 1945;
  • The gender ratio between newborns in Hiroshima suffered an 18% shift; similar to that experienced by survivors of Hiroshima; and
  • There have been bizarre occurrences of birth defects such as children born with two heads and lower limb paralysis.

       [added 11/14/2025] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.