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 PART 1: Losing
it
US forces have not set
foot in Fallujah since early May.The Iraqi
city is firmly in the hands of
a determined anti-US resistance, which now
includes the very man the Americans sent in to
solve their problem in the first place. (Jul 15,
'04)
PART 2: The fighting
poets
Fallujah celebrated the
withdrawal of US troops from the city after a
month-long siege with a gathering of poets, who
waxed lyrical about their beloved city, now free
from the "infidel". Then the city's leading
cleric weighed in, and his message, stripped of
any poetic niceties, was unmistakable: Fallujah,
and Iraq, are now haram for the
Americans, religiously prohibited until judgment
day. (Jul 16,
'04)
PART 3: The Fallujah
model
A
brigadier, a politician and a councilor
represent just a few of the many faces of the
resistance in Fallujah, which is divided between
those who support the ceasefire with occupation
forces that ended a month's fighting in the
city, and those who want to continue the
struggle throughout Iraq "and all the way to
Jerusalem". (Jul 19,
'04)
PART 4: All power to the
sheikh
Sheikh Dhafer al-Ubeidi
is the de facto mayor of Fallujah, with his
mosque serving not only as a pivotal religious
center in Iraq's "city of mosques", but also as
the command center for the resistance. When
Dhafer speaks, people listen, although he
does have a problem with the local mujahideen.
(Jul 20,
'04)
PART 5: The tongue of
the
mujahideen
Although he
politely denies it, Sheikh Dhafer al-Ubeidi is
the real leader of Fallujah and played an
indispensable part in its resistance to US-led
forces. His job is far from done, though, and
nor is that of the soldiers who guard
the city in a variety of Saddam-era
uniforms, and the harried policemen who want
more money. (Jul 21,
'04)
PART 6: Mean and
clean streets
Two German journalists, foolishly
wearing local dress, are inches away from
being burned alive by Fallujah's
mujahideen on suspicion of being spies,
before being rescued by police. Angered at
being denied, the mujahideen return to
their part of town, where strict
Islamic law applies. (Jul 22,
'04)
PART 7: Radicals in the ashes
of democracy
A range of graphic video discs
glorify the success in winning back Fallujah
from the Americans, but hijackings and
kidnappings continue, with the finger pointed at
the increasingly marginalized and lawless
mujahideen: the US war in Iraq, meant to
democratize the region, has instead radicalized
it. This is the concluding article in the
series. (Jul
23,
'04)
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