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Inside Fallujah: ISIS-held ghost town ruled by fear, paranoia as battle looms
Foxnews.com ^ | January 20, 2016 | Hollie McKay

Posted on 01/20/2016 6:43:02 PM PST by IDontLikeToPayTaxes

Two years after Fallujah became one of the first prizes claimed by ISIS, the Iraqi city is a ghost town where fearful residents turn on one another and resistance is met with unspeakable brutality, according to sources trapped inside the Pittsburgh-sized community just 40 miles west of Baghdad.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fallujah; iraq; isis

I find this mildly interesting. Ten years ago, I and a lot of Freepers would have been screaming to "DO SOMETHING!"

These days? I couldn't care less what happens to Iraq.

1 posted on 01/20/2016 6:43:02 PM PST by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

No kidding. I bet they wish the Marines were there now. FCK them. ISIS can rape, torture and murder Iraqis to their hearts content.


2 posted on 01/20/2016 7:05:46 PM PST by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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3 posted on 01/20/2016 7:16:37 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

Yeah, I kinda feel the same way.

Lots of American heroes have died over there. I don’t think the Iraqis are worth the effort.


4 posted on 01/20/2016 7:21:29 PM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

My nephew lost his best friend when their humvee was taken out by an IED; he still wants to go back and kill terrorists; of course, he is still a Marine at heart. But we all knew if the Dems were elected that they would do everything they could to lose the war and get as many of the people that cooperated with us or helped us... killed as possible.
There’s an Iraqi family that had been very happy when they set up on a rooftop near the guy’s house - they were surprised when the husband and kids brought prepared meals for the marines out of the blue the first day. He said that family, poor as they were, brought something nearly every day, but confided in him they feared the Americans would leave and Saddam’s men would come back, or terrorists move in.
At the time, terrorists were putting retarded kids in cars and sending them, unwitting, to try to crash checkpoints, it was sickening.
We’re afraid after the premature withdrawal, and ISIS swarmed the area, that the family’s kindness to the Americans would likely come to the terrorists’ attention and they would suffer dearly for it if they hadn’t already, we can only pray they were able to flee.


5 posted on 01/20/2016 8:25:41 PM PST by piasa
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To: Salvavida

They were all for Obama’s Hope and Change “anal-ISIS”


6 posted on 01/20/2016 8:40:47 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall noshi)
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