Mainstream media speak as if Fallujah were populated only by foreign “insurgentsâ€?. In fact, women and children are being slaughtered in our name. On Britain’s Radio 4′s November 6 Today, a BBC reporter in Baghdad referred to the coming attack on the city of Fallujah as “dangerousâ€? and “very dangerousâ€? for the US. When asked about civilians, he said, reassuringly, that the US marines were “going about with a Tannoyâ€? telling people to get out. He omitted to say that tens of thousands of people would be left in the city. He mentioned in passing the “most intense bombingâ€? of the city with no suggestion of what that meant for people beneath the bombs.
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