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May 28th, 2003
Activism

Letter to the NY Times

Editors,

Patrick Tyler’s reduction of a horrific over-reaction on the part of
American military personell earlier this year to two separate protests in
Falluja, resulting in the deaths of at least fifteen unarmed civilians and
the wounding of at least seventy others (a potential war crime), to
unspecified “clashes” in a “restive” town, is utterly outrageous.

This article reduces the residents of Falluja to a racist parody of
irrational Arab militants bent on creating havoc and perpetrating violence
for no apparent reason. How is the American public to understand the context
of the violence in this town (and elsewhere), and what Barakal Jassim
al-Zobai refers to when he talks of “all of the martyrs that Falluja gave”,
if they are not given the information that American military personell
killed and wounded people as their children were protesting over the
occupation of their school by U.S. soldiers and the followed that up again
just a day later by killing even more civilians (as reported in the United
Kingdom’s “The Guardian”)?

The American public needs and deserves better from “the newspaper of
record” if we are to make informed decisions about the wisdom and
effectiveness of U.S. policy in Iraq and elsewhere.

Regards,
Thomas Leavitt

Source articles:

VIOLENCE
Gunmen Kill 2 U.S. Soldiers in a Firefight in Central Iraq
By PATRICK E. TYLER

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/28/international/worldspecial/28IRAQ.html?ex=1054699200&en=a58e58c75fb8bb3f&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

and

US troops fire on new protest over killings

Two more die in town where 14 were shot dead only a day before

Jonathan Steele in Falluja
Thursday May 1, 2003
The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,947291,00.html

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