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Unrest Surfaces in Fallujah Again

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

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FALLUJAH, Jul 16 (IPS) – Security has collapsed again in Fallujah, despite U.S. military claims.

Local militias supported by U.S. forces claim to have "cleansed" the city, 70 km to the west of Baghdad, of all insurgency. But the sudden resignation of the city’s chief of police, Colonel Fayssal al-Zoba’i, has appeared as one recent sign of growing unrest.

Authorities may have controlled the media better…

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