America's Sinister Plan for Falluja

[G_j]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121804B.shtml

America's Sinister Plan for Falluja
By Michael Schwartz
TomDispatch.com

Thursday 16 December 2004

The chilling reality of what Falluja has become is only now seeping out, as the American military continues to block almost all access to the city, whether to reporters, its former residents, or aid groups like the Red Crescent Society. The date of access keeps being postponed, partly because of ongoing fighting - only this week more air strikes were called in and fighting "in pockets" remains fierce (despite American pronouncements of success weeks ago) - and partly because of the difficulties military commanders have faced in attempting to prettify their ugly handiwork. Residents will now officially be denied entry until at least December 24; and even then, only the heads of households will be allowed in, a few at a time, to assess damage to their residences in the largely destroyed city.

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... When they are finally allowed to return, if all goes as the Americans imagine, here's what the city's residents may face:

Entry and exit from the city will be restricted. According to General Sattler, only five roads into the city will remain open. The rest will be blocked by "sand berms" - read, mountains of earth that will make them impassible. Checkpoints will be established at each of the five entry points, manned by U.S. troops, and everyone entering will be "photographed, fingerprinted and have iris scans taken before being issued ID cards." Though Sattler reassured American reporters that the process would only take 10 minutes, the implication is that entry and exit from the city will depend solely on valid ID cards properly proffered, a system akin to the pass-card system used during the apartheid era in South Africa.

Fallujans are to wear their universal identity cards in plain sight at all times. The ID cards will, according to Dahr Jamail's information, be made into badges that contain the individual's home address. This sort of system has no purpose except to allow for the monitoring of everyone in the city, so that ongoing American patrols can quickly determine if someone is not a registered citizen or is suspiciously far from their home neighborhood.

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[AndyTiedye]

1. Field Testing Their Plans For Everywhere Else

including here :-(

[Tace]

2. My Guess Is That They Plan This For The Entire Country Eventually...

Then the entire world. This is where we're heading, and Bushco are leading the way. As bad as any totalitarian anti-utopian novel.

[4morewars]

3. Why not arm bands ?

You know, like the ones Hitler made the Jews wear ?

[othermeans]

4. Too low tech. nt

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[Art_from_Ark]

6. So, then, you'll have no complaints

if some army invades your town, prevents teenage and adult males from leaving, bombs the crap out of it, prevents you from coming and going, and labels YOU a "terrorist"?

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[BattyDem]

8. It's a trial run ...

They'll work out the "kinks" then implement the same system here. :scared:

Freedom was on the march ... but it tripped. :eyes:

[babylonsister]

9. Freedom on the march?

:wtf: Man, the more the word fascist is bandied about, the more it fits. WTF are we doing there ruining peoples' lives and homes? And killing Americans and Iraqis in the process? My head hurts...

[vixengrl]

10. That is some disturbing stuff.

And how do they think the people jumping through those hoops like trained poodles are going to feel? They're going to find some registered citizens in a less-than-friendly mood, I suspect.

[G_j]

11. Four-year old Aysha Saleem lost all eight family members in Fallujah

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2838256

"Four-year old Aysha Saleem lost all eight family members in Fallujah"
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