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| Fallujah-Area Iraq Unrest Kills at Least 295 This Year |
| 2014-05-08 |
| [An Nahar] Violence in and around the Iraqi city of Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperityor a really nice place to raise your kids... held by anti-government fighters for months, has killed at least 295 people since late last year, a doctor said Wednesday. At least 1,296 people have also been maimed in the area, a short drive west of Storied Baghdad, between December 30 and May 7, Dr Ahmed Shami, chief medic at the city's main hospital, told Agence La Belle France Presse. The actual toll may be higher, as dead and maimed may have been taken to other hospitals or not at all. A crisis erupted in the desert province of Anbar on December 30 when security forces dismantled Iraq's main Sunni Arab anti-government protest camp just outside lovely provincial capital Ramadi, to the west of Fallujah. Anti-government fighters subsequently seized all of Fallujah and shifting parts of Ramadi, and security forces have failed to wrest back control. It is the first time anti-government forces have exercised such open control in major cities since the peak of the deadly violence that followed the U.S.-led invasion of 2003. Security forces have periodically clashed with bully boyz in areas around Fallujah, but the main source of casualties in the city has been persistent shellfire that has especially targeted southern neighborhoods. Bombardment in various areas of Fallujah killed seven people and maimed 45 from Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning, Shami said. And in the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , two people were rubbed out, a police officer and a morgue employee said. |
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