Middle East Art Fusion

|* documentary. Fallujah - The Hidden Massacre.

Recently there was shown the Italian documentary "Fallujah - The Hidden Massacre" on Rai TV. Now everyone is talking about the use of the unconventional weapons in Fallujah.

Khalid Jarrar wrote in his blog Secret in Baghdad that he knew about the use of chemical weapons in Falluja, because simply everyone in Iraq knows, and everyone that was in Falluja knows it.
He continues: "One of my friends, a very brave Iraqi girl that was working on her own to evacuate civilians from inside Falluja during the fight ( yes, of course there were civilians inside the city ) told me that an American soldier asked her specifically not to eat or drink anything inside the city, you know what that means?
yah, I guess you do".

Khalid also points out that the scandal about the abuse of prisoners in an Interior Ministry bunker in Baghdad came across right after the explosive and revealing Italian documentary. Coincidence? He also doubts the official story for the U.S. troops to go and search for a teenager.

"this is SO wag the dog (they were going to help the cute girl with the white cat in the movie ["Wag the dog"]) so the American army sent a number of soldiers to look for a 15 years old boy because his parents were searching for him? OOHH YAAAA RIIIGGHTTT... and accidentally while carrying out that noble sweet hearted operation, carrying roses and flowers to give to the poor little boy, they stumbled up on 173 detainees, of course! Is there any crazy one among you that question that story?"

At the same time Raed Jarrar in his blog "Raed in the Middle: Caught between the East and the West" wrote:

"There was a very wide use of depleted uranium (DU) against Iraqi armored tanks and buildings, and many of these tanks and buildings were in the middle of residential areas. My friends from GNN included some informative parts about DU in their excellent documentary: "BattleGround: 21 Days on the Empire's Edge". We went together to some places hit with DU bullets, and tested the area with a Geiger counter.

In addition to that, I took many pictures (and even some samples) of some walls in the middle of Nasiriya (the southern Iraqi city). The walls were full of nails! Hundreds, or maybe thousands, of nails because of a US nail bomb that targeted one of the city's oldest cinemas".

I do remember in the beginning of the war myself reports on Russian channels about 'unconventional' weapons being used against civilians in Iraq. I wonder how come people tend to forget such crutial facts the second they dessappear from the media agenda? And why all the attention will be turned away again if another scandal pops up?

posted by Aleksandra Birjukova @ 21.11.05