[lbo-talk] Juan Cole: Most Fallujah Dead Were Combatants, Not Civilians

[mike larkin]

"It is controversial how many of those are women and
children as opposed to combatants (some say as many as
200). It seems likely that most of the dead were
combatants, since they were the ones the Marines were
firing at..... 

"The siege of Fallujah was represented on the Arab
satellite television channels, such as al Jazeera, as
a massacre of innocent civilians, a charge that was
apparently widely believed but which caricatures the
Marines, who took heavy fire from experienced fighters
and lost many killed and wounded. This toll was hardly
inflicted by innocent women and children."

http://salon.com/news/feature/2004/04/16/israel/print.html

	

		
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