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

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Fri Sep 17 14:49:46 PDT 2004


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

by Brian Dominick

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=977 <http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=977>

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.



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