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Food Crisis Hits Fallujah

dahr-jamail.jpg Inter Press Service
By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail*

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FALLUJAH, Iraq (IPS) – Sharp increases in food prices have generated a new wave of anti-occupation and anti-U.S. sentiment in Fallujah.

"This is a country that was damned by the Americans the moment they stepped on our soil," Burhan Jassim, a farmer from Sichir village just outside Fallujah told IPS. "This is Iraqi land that has always been blessed by Allah with the best production in…

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