Some under-reported facts about Fallujah

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Blogs reveal some under-reported aspects of the lynching at Fallujah last week (veiled4Allah, 2nd April, Even More Sick)

David Lloyd-Jones said:

Subject: The Fallujah Killings

American reporting on the killings in Fallujah is really *really* bad:

First we have CNN, e.g., calling the victims "civilians," forgetting to tell people that this is a military code-word for soldiers out of uniform. The four men killed were hired mercenaries.

Second, nobody in the American press is putting the killings in context: the previous day a Marine Corps convoy had been attacked by stone throwers, and the Marines had returned after the trucks got through, to shoot up the crowd. They hit twenty people, two fatally.

The killings were explicit mob revenge for the intial Marine atrocity the previous day. Not nice, obviously, but entirely understandable.