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After IS, a painful return for residents of Iraq's Fallujah
Fox News ^ | September 23, 2016 | AP via Fox News

Posted on 09/23/2016 9:07:09 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!

FALLUJAH, Iraq – In the three days since the Iraqi city of Fallujah was reopened for residents following its recapture from the Islamic State group, just over 500 families have returned home, Maj. Gen. Saad al-Harbea, the head of west Baghdad operations, said.

Hundreds more have massed around the checkpoints that block the city's entrance to await the multiple security approvals required to re-enter Fallujah, which lies 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of the Iraqi capital. But the vast majority of the 300,000 people that made up the city's prewar population remain scattered across the country.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: fallujah; iraq; isis
How long can the Iraqi Shia government keep this Sunni city?
1 posted on 09/23/2016 9:07:09 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Alas Babylon!

If they manage to keep it, it will take a generation or two to recover.


2 posted on 09/23/2016 9:18:05 AM PDT by Fhios ( Globalism is the new Communism - Islamism is the new Fascism.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Another success of the Obama / Clinton team... /s


3 posted on 09/24/2016 12:52:29 AM PDT by Paul R.
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