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bvar22

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15. Fallujah was the Sunni town north & west of Baghdad...

Tue Jan 27, 2015, 02:59 PM

Jan 2015

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...where the locals caught 4 mercenaries (Backwater), and gave them a deserved mercenary's death.
American troops then surrounded Fallujah, and told the women & children to leave. Many did not leave but remained in Fallujah to be with their loved ones. American Troops then surrounded the town, cut off all exits,
and then flattened the place with White Phosphorus and a "napalm like substance" until no one was left alive.

Fallujah was an example of collective punishment forbidden under the Geneva convention.

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