| Hope the money went a long way... |
Residents of Fallujah who escaped the US assault on their city earlier this month are angry with insurgents for taking advantage of their poverty and luring them into fighting with money. A report in the London-based al-Hayat newspaper Saturday quoted two relatives from the former Sunni insurgent stronghold now in Baghdad whose houses were used by insurgents. One man, identified as Abu Seif, was angry for succumbing to an offer of 200 dollars a month worth of rent of his house to be used by insurgents. Abu Seif's house, now destroyed in US attacks, was strategically located in the Shohada neighbourhood which offered an open way to the Zawbaa area between Fallujah and Abu Ghraib for insurgents to escape. Al-Hayat said the bad economic situation in the Shohada and Jubeil neighbourhoods lured many Iraqis to cooperate with insurgents. Abu Seif said that many families also encouraged their sons to join the insurgents because of the attractive wages offered.
| I don't anticipate needing a lot of cash after I've shuffled off the mortal coil... |
Abu Seif and his nephew Ahmad are angry with insurgents for staging their battle in residential areas. Both said many Iraqis wanted to attack Americans at their bases outside the city. Al-Hayat also quoted Ahmad as saying that the US-Iraqi assault on the city was successful because of the deployment of "double agents" who infiltrated the insurgents and gave troops information on the location of the fighters.
| I'm really hoping they continue believing that... |
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