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发帖数: 617 | 1 1. 封锁媒体和红十字会
2. 首先攻占医院， 切断普适党造谣的来源。
3. 死的都是恐怖分子， 没有平民。
"The assault was preceded by eight weeks of aerial bombardment. US troops
cut off the city's water, power and food supplies, condemned as a violation
of the Geneva convention by a UN special rapporteur, who accused occupying
forces of "using hunger and deprivation of water as a weapon of war against
the civilian population". Two-thirds of the city's 300,000 residents fled,
many to squatters' camps without basic facilities.
As the siege tightened, the Red Cross, Red Crescent and the media were kept
out, while males between the ages of 15 and 55 were kept in.
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On November 8, 10,000 US troops, supported by 2,000 Iraqi recruits, equipped
with artillery and tanks, supported from the air by bombers and helicopter
gunships, blasted their way into a city the size of Leicester. It took a
week to establish control of the main roads; another two before victory was
claimed.The city's main hospital was selected as the first target, the New
York Times reported, "because the US military believed it was the source of
rumours about heavy casualties". An AP photographer described US helicopters
killing a family of five trying to ford a river to safety. "There were
American snipers on top of the hospital shooting everyone," said Burhan Fasa
'am, a photographer with the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation. "With no
medical supplies, people died from their wounds. Everyone in the street was
a target for the Americans."The US also deployed incendiary weapons,
including white phosphorous. "Usually we keep the gloves on," Captain Erik
Krivda said, but "for this operation, we took the gloves off". By the end of
operations, the city lay in ruins. Falluja's compensation commissioner has
reported that 36,000 of the city's 50,000 homes were destroyed, along with
60 schools and 65 mosques and shrines.The US claims that 2,000 died, most of
them fighters. Other sources disagree. When medical teams arrived in
January they collected more than 700 bodies in only one third of the city.
Iraqi NGOs and medical workers estimate between 4,000 and 6,000 dead, mostly
civilians - a proportionately higher death rate than in Coventry and London
during the blitz." |
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