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| 13,000 Families Flee Qaida-Held Fallujah |
| 2014-01-09 |
| [An Nahar] More than 13,000 families have fled Fallujah in the past few days amid festivities and shelling after the city fell to al-Qaeda-linked hard boys, the Iraqi Red Islamic Thingy said on Wednesday. "Most of them are now living in schools, public buildings or with relatives," Red Islamic Thingy official Mohammed al-Khuzaie said in a statement. Khuzaie said the organization had provided humanitarian assistance to more than 8,000 families in the past three days across predominantly Sunni Arab Anbar province. Fallujah and parts of the Anbar scenic provincial capital Ramadi farther west have been outside government control for days -- the first time forces of Evil have exercised such open control in major cities since the height of the insurgency that followed the U.S.-led invasion of 2003. The violence in Anbar, which began on December 30 with the removal of a Sunni Arab anti-government protest camp, has killed more than 250 people -- the worst unrest to hit the province in years. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Still leaves a heckuva lot of people in Fallujah. But they have to make a living, I guess, and the AQ have to get tea and bread from somebody. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-01-09 11:01 |