Sunday, November 2, 2008

Fallujah, Iraq -- Some Things Never Change

US Still The Villain In Iraq's Former Rebel Bastion
-- Yahoo News/AFP


FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFP) – The tall iron bridge spanning the Al-Furat river that runs through the city of Fallujah is still the symbol of the raging anti-US insurgency that once engulfed Iraq's Sunni enclave.

In March 2004, four security guards of US-based Blackwater security company were brutally killed by Sunni rebels and left hanging from the bridge for three days.

The gruesome murders came a year after the March 2003 US-led war on Iraq that toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein.

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