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In Fallujah, a Hospital of Horrors

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Apr 27, 2012 All at once, Nadhem Shokr al-Hadidi's administration office becomes a little chamber of horrors. A baby with a hugely deformed mouth. A child with a defect of the spinal cord, material from the spine outside the body. A baby with a terrible, vast Cyclopean eye. Another baby with only half a head, stillborn like the rest. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

War Is Toxic

Staff / Truthdig Jan 1, 2011 A new study has concluded that a rise in genetic damage in children born in Fallujah, Iraq, could have been caused by the weaponry used in the U.S. assault on the city six years ago. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Blasts Rock Iraq, Kill 55

Staff / Truthdig Aug 8, 2010 Only a few hours after U.S. soldiers transferred combat duties to Iraqi security forces, a series of explosions in Basra on Saturday and in Ramadi and Fallujah on Sunday lit up Iraq, killing at least 55 and wounding many others. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Civilians Pay the Price of War From Above

Robert Fisk / Truthdig May 11, 2009 Of course there will be an inquiry. And in the meantime, we shall be told that all the dead Afghan civilians were being used as "human shields" by the Taliban and we shall say that we "deeply regret" innocent lives that were lost. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Semantics Can’t Mask Bush’s Chicanery

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Apr 12, 2008 The president's twisting of words in an attempt to justify continuing the war has become sickening. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

“The People of Fallujah Love Cindy Sheehan”

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Dec 1, 2005 Sunni leaders who plan to participate in the Dec. 15 Iraq elections told Marines that they are encouraged by the actions of activist Cindy Sheehan and others who are calling for a U.S. withdrawal. Sheehan should be congratulated for showing the Iraqi people and the rest of the world what democracy is all about. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )