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Article: Beyond Fallujah: a year with the Iraqi resistance.(Report)
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- Harper's Magazine
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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Early one morning in April, a Monday, an Iraqi doctor and I piled medicine for the Fallujah hospital into the back of his car. I had dyed my hair black, and a friend had made me a fake Iraqi I.D. By then, various groups around the country were holding dozens of foreign hostages; driving out of Baghdad was like slipping into a shark tank. Ahead of us on the road were convoys of trucks, carrying aid and probably weapons. Men from all the Sunni areas, I was told, were coming to Fallujah to fight, a situation that one U.S. Marine had called the Sunni "Super Bowl."
Inside the city itself, the resistance had set tip checkpoints every 100 feet. At the tenth checkpoint ...