Fallujah:City of Ghosts

Via Yoshie at Critical Montages, a quote from Iraqi doctor Ali Fadhil:

The US military destroyed Falluja, but simply spread the fighters out around the country. They also increased the chance of civil war in Iraq by using their new national guard of Shias to suppress Sunnis. Once, when a foreign journalist, an Irish guy, asked me whether I was Shia or Sunni — the way the Irish do because they have that thing about the IRA — I said I was Sushi. My father is Sunni and my mother is Shia. I never cared about these things. Now, after Falluja, it matters. (Fadhil, “City of Ghosts,” January 11, 2005)

This (realplayer)clip is from Dr Ali Fadhil’s special report on his return to Fallujah, produced by Guardian Films:

Falluja: The Fall and Fall Out (January 10, 2005)