Unrest Surfaces in Fallujah Again
by Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail / July 17th, 2008

FALLUJAH, Jul 16 (IPS) - Security has collapsed again in Fallujah, despite U.S. military claims.

Local militias supported by U.S. forces claim to have “cleansed” the city, 70 km to the west of Baghdad, of all insurgency. But the sudden resignation of the city’s chief of police, Colonel Fayssal al-Zoba’i, has appeared as one recent sign of growing unrest.

Authorities may have controlled the media better than the violence.

“Assassinations never stopped in Fallujah, but the media seems unwilling to cover the actual situation here,” a human rights activist in Fallujah, speaking on terms of anonymity given the tense situation, told IPS. “The …

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