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By Adam Wild Aba, IOL Correspondent Fallujah
WASHINGTON, January 4 “Uninhabitable”
(IslamOnline.net) – With pictures of US Plans
their smiling marine sons in their Police State
wallets and memories about the good Measures for
old days always vivid, bereaved US Fallujans:
families wrapped up last week a visit to Report
Iraq in protest at the American Dollars Can’t
occupation and in solidarity with
Members of the US families announcing Make Up for
thousands of Iraqis displaced by the US donations they raised for the Fallujah
monster firepower. Loss of Loved
refugees (AFP)
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Californian Rosa Suarez del Solar and her Husband Fernando, whose Fallujah
marine son died in Iraq in March last year, led the grief-stricken Mosque Killings
families, anti-war activists and families of 9/11 victims in their soul- War Crime:
searching tour, which kicked off on December 26.
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And they were unified by a common ground: A strong determination Destruction,
to expose the US administration of George W. Bush and its Killings in
misleading everything is going OK clichés to the entire world. Fallujah. Click
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“We lost our son to an illegal war that is now destroying the lives of
thousands of Iraqi children,” Fernando said. “We, as parents, must Marines Killed
say ‘Stop the killing, comfort the children.'” Four Wounded
Iraqi Prisoners:
In addition to Rosa and Fernando, the delegation also includes Jeffrey US Reporter
Ritterman, of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Jodie Evans, co-
founder of CodePink: Women for Peace, Medea Benjamin, co-founder
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of Global Exchange and CodePink, and Hany Khalil, a national
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organizer for the group United for Peace and Justice.
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The organizations sponsoring their tour are CodePink, Project Our Youth,
Guerrero Azteca for peace, Global Exchange, the Middle East How Safe
Children's Alliance, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Peace Action, Are They
United for Peace and Justice, and Voices in the Wilderness. on the
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They secured diplomatic courtesy letters from US Senators Barbara
Boxer of California and Raul Grijalva of Arizona and Congressmen Islamic
Dennis Kucinich of Ohio and Henry Waxman of California. Sites in
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Fernando said had it not been for the help of the two congressmen,
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their tour would have not seen the light due to obstacles laid by the
the War
Pentagon.

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juggernaut, they raised US$600,000 worth Islam
of humanitarian aid to the refugees of the
war-torn city of Fallujah. Open
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In an Internet appeal, they raised over
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US$100,000 in donations from Americans,
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who found it hard to buy the sweet-talk of
their administration and joined the anti-war
Muslim
alliance.
Refugees
“Your donations have provided thousands of in South
cold, grieving refugees, especially children, An Iraqi family with relief Africa
supplies in Fallujah
with blankets, sweaters, heaters, portable
stoves, clean water and antibiotics,” the group thanked the Training
benevolent in a CodePink’s online statement. Program
for Science
At least 2,000 Iraqis and 71 US soldiers were killed in a sweeping US Journalists
raid into Fallujah in November, which displaced some 200,000 people
and turned the city into a virtual ghost town. How Islam
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The refugees started returning to their “uninhabitable” homeland last
Lives
month, facing new draconian US police measures with their finger
prints taken and their retinas scanned. They were further forced to
wear special ID badges. Islam and
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Fernando said he believed it when he saw unexploded cluster bombs Protection

scattering across vast swathes of Iraq. of Non-
Muslims'
He said the tennis ball-like bombs threaten the lives of thousands of
Places of
Iraqi children, who innocently used to sift through the debris and the
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rubble of their destroyed homes.

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International aid agencies had said that hundreds of Iraqi civilians Why Are
were maimed after tampering with the bombs with children making You Here
most of the victims. Posting On
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Britain’s The Observer published last year a map showing vast areas
of the occupied country at danger from live munitions.

The 12-person delegation met with Iraqi doctors, human rights

workers, and families hurt by the occupation.

In Jordan, they were banned by authorities from holding a candlelit

vigil outside UN headquarters on December 31.

“We are all very upset because we had done similar protests all over
the world. We're very shocked,” Benjamin told Agence France-Presse
AFP.

As they were heading home, the families sang in unison, “All we are
saying, is give peace a chance.”

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