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Mr. Jabur Khani Raad was sitting in a waiting room
in the hospital with a splint device on his arm. He told a horrid story
of how he and his two brothers were shot by US Marines on April 11th.
He said, "We were in the military quarter going to visit some relatives
near the Al-Hassan mosque, and they opened fire on us from the rooftops
of the houses they occupied."
His 44 year-old brother who was driving, Jabul Nezzar
Raad, was killed.
...
One of the neighbors, seeing that I was a journalist, came out to tell
yet another horrific tale.
His brother, Hussein Mohammad Jergi, was a 43 year-old
man who had a mental disability. He wandered out of his home on the
same day the car was shot up, only to be shot and injured by the snipers
himself.
With tears in his eyes, his brother angrily told
the rest of the story. "He was shot and ran into the house. They followed
him into our home, took out a big knife and chopped off his feet. Then
they shot him in the head. After destroying much of our furniture,
and putting shit around my house, they left. This is how they behaved
all over Fallujah. We buried my brothers' feet with his body."
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deaths [and injuries] |
Dr. Abdul Jabbar, an Orthopedic Surgeon, said that
it was difficult to keep track of the number of people they treated,
as well as the number of dead, due to the lack of documentation. This
was caused, primarily, by the fact that the main hospital, which is
located on the opposite side of the Euphrates as the city, was sealed
off by U.S. Marines for the majority of April.
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info, comment, analysis |
Another Orthopedic Surgeon, Dr. Rashid, said that
during the first 10 days of fighting, the U.S. military did not allow
any evacuations at all. He said, "Even transferring patients in the
city was impossible, you can see our ambulances outside. They also
shot into the main doors with snipers of one of our centers."
...
Jabur and his other brother were detained and taken to a U.S. base
outside the city. His downcast eyes spoke of terror while he said, "They
didn't treat me as bad as the others since I was wounded. With the
others, they dug holes in the ground and kept them there. I heard their
screaming whenever they were being interrogated."
He told of an old man who was unable to walk after
being tortured, and added, "Please publish this. People need to know
how the Americans are treating Iraqi prisoners. We were starved, given
very little food. The soldiers took the better food out of the bags,
and gave us what little was left. Then they burned the good food in
front of us."
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Then over at where the attack occurred, a man who witnessed the incident
said that the body of Jabur's brother was left in the street for a
week. He said, "After several days dogs began eating off of it. Then
on the 7th day, the soldiers dumped fuel on it and burned it. We were
trapped in our house, or we would have tried to bury it; but anyone
leaving their homes was shot by them. They knew these men were civilians,
because after they had shot up their car, they began stopping other
cars that tried to come to the area."
He added that an ambulance had attempted to collect
the body on the 5th day, but was shot at by the snipers who occupied
the rooftops.
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