[lbo-talk] "Fallujah Brigade" to Disband, Join Resistance in Control of City

[Charles Brown]

"Fallujah Brigade" to Disband, Join Resistance in Control of City 

by Brian Dominick

 

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=977
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Sep 12 - Three weeks after initially suggesting the US-created "Fallujah
Brigade" had long since served its purpose, and one week after a clash
between Brigade members and US Marines left four Iraqis dead, American and
Iraqi officials announced the official dissolution of the controversial unit
Saturday, the LA Times reports. But as US pilots continue to bombard areas
of Fallujah, reports suggest the city is still very much in rebel control --
possibly reinvigorated by the dispersal of the controversial Brigade.

After four months in operation, apparently enjoying effective autonomy from
US and Iraqi government command, the Brigade has been deemed more trouble
than it was worth. 

According to some Brigade members, though, the trouble is just beginning.
Many of them now reportedly plan to fight openly against US occupation
forces and Iraqi security personnel, using US-supplied weapons against US
Marines if the latter are ordered to re-invade Fallujah as many expect.