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Latest American Outrage -
US Forces Use Refugee
Families As Human Shields

By Muhammad Abu Nasr,
Free Arab Voice - Edited By JUS
12-30-4
 
In a dispatch posted at 6:40pm Wednesday evening, Mecca time (7:40pm local time), Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US forces at 4pm Wednesday had launched an attack attempting to break into the an-Nazal neighborhood in the southern, Resistance-held part of Fallujah. The Americans attempted to make use of the return of refugees to the city as cover for their assault, driving a number of refugee families ahead of them into the neighborhood as human shields.
 
The families became aware that they were being used as pawns in the Americans' game after the Mujahideen called out to them, telling them to go back because the Americans were using them as bait in an attempt to storm the neighborhood. The families therefore dispersed, as the US forces heard the Mujahideen calls as well, and understood that their little game was up. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam in the city commented, however that had it not been for the presence of journalists and members of the Iraqi Red Crescent on the scene, the American troops would have simply forced the families to go on. This they were unwilling to do in the presence of witnesses.
 
Afterwards, US forces attempted to break into an-Nazal neighborhood making use of fighter bomber air support. The Mujahideen stood up to them, however, sparking a battle between themselves and the American attackers after the US forces got to al-Kubaysat Street, the first major street in the an-Nazal neighborhood. There more than 200 Mujahideen all along the al-Kubaysat Street as well as Shaykh Khalil al-Fayyad Street attacked the US troops. The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the battle was still under way when he filed his report
 
At the time of the report, at least seven US military vehicles had been destroyed in the fighting and about 25 American troops killed.
 
The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent also reported that the Mujahideen was able to recover the bodies of 14 Arab Resistance fighters who had been killed in the fighting, including that of 55-year old Shaykh al-Jalil Abu Bakr al-Hijazi from the Hijaz area where Mecca and al-Madinah are located. He fell on the battlefield after single-handedly holding back the advance of an entire American column for 15 minutes, until relief fighters were able to move up to relieve him. He was found dead, his beard dyed red with blood.
 

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