00:02:20:02
Start film
00:02:23:14
It was raining and in the morning two thirty in the morning, that means its night, it was a sound of pigeon, like a bird, was singing and that was a strange sound for me.
00: 02:38:10
and I just had a feeling like it might be even this bird was crying, and he was expecting that what will happen to this beautiful place which called iraq
00:02:54:06 - 00:03:00:23 On Screen Plate
On November 8th, 2004 Operation Phantom Fury, an American military operation was launched in the city of Falluja, Iraq.
00:03:03:02 - 00:03:09:09 On Screen Plate
Following the battle, and Iraqi and an American went into the city and lived with the people, to bring the story of the civilians of Falluja back to the world.
00:03:12:07 00:03:16:27 On Screen Plate
Mark Manning
Director
00:03:10:17
I was making a film about the American people and prior to the iraq war, and during the iraq war, I was traveling across the united states, I was asking Americans and not so much what you feel, across the board, I was asking them why.
00:03:23:21
and I had been in every region of the country across this country for two years and what I began to find out is that people in the united states although very emotional about the issues, really were operating on a limited set of facts. Nobody really had facts to back up there position.
00:03:44:20 00:03:49:00 On Screen Plate
Rana Al Aiouby
Producer/Humanitarian aid worker
00:03:41:10
the next day that they start the bombing which was a terrible day for me I cant even imagine that this really will happen to my country, I cant even describe it for you how was my feeling at that moment Because it just made me feel like Im going to lose my parents. Im going to loose Bagdad and Iraq which is my parents.
00:04:11:25
and knowing that I couldnt get the story from my own media, I had just realized that I had to go there myself if I really wanted to know the truth , I would have to go witness it myself.
00:04:23:02
so when I got to Jordan, we started hearing testimony from the Iraqi people about what was going on inside iraq and specifically what was going on inside Falluja. And it was very striking and a very serious testimony thats when I met Rana.
00:04:39:01
She had just come out of Falluja and she had been inside Falluja during the November Seige, and she had been in there working as an Iraqi Civilian an Iraqi woman just alone doing the work of a humanitarian and she had been going under the bombs literally under the bombs and moving families out of the way trying to ease the suffering of the civilians of Falluja.
00:05:04:16
If Im going to save the life of one person even if Im going to loose my life, I wont loose anything because I already saved the life of one person if I go to save the life of two person even if I loose my life then I will be the winner I won already two person.
00:05:26:20
Well you may just say its crazy to believe in that, its just like suicide mission but I do believe in it. Its my pleasure to help the people to help any person who is in need for help and then I just become like this.
00:05:44:05
At that point Rana asked me if I wanted to come back with her to work with her to do two things to bring the medicine to the people who needed it in Falluja and to document what had happened there and so her and I teamed up and decided to make this film, decided to go into Falluja and try to bring the truth back the American people.
00:06:14:27
Falluja called the city of Mosques located west of Bagdad in the area now called the Sunni triangle
00:06:24:21- 00:06:30:28 On Screen Plate
Cincinnati, Ohio
00:06:25:18
Falluja is roughly the same size and Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States.
00:06:32:24 00:06:45:28 On Screen Plate
Falluja, Iraq
00:06:32:27
Falluja has a population estimated to be over 250,000 civilians.
00:06:41:21
On November 8th, 2004, the city was attacked by an American led operation called Phantom Fury.
00:07:01:16
Phantom Furry was the most in intense urban fighting of the U.S. war in Iraq.
00:07:50:22
Largely unreported in the western media was the story of the civilians caught in the crossfire.
00:08:44:19
There are estimates that thousands of civilians were trapped in the city during the fighting and there are no accurate reports of their condition or there survival.
00:08:59:16 00:09:05:19 On Screen Plate
When they bombed Falluja we saw fires that were taller than this building.
00:09:05:21 00:09:14:00 On Screen Plate
I swear I was shaking, I was so scared. The shrapnel was flying over my head.
00:09:16:17 00:09:19:18 On Screen Plate
I am the father of two injured children.
00:09:20:27 00:09:25:04 On Screen Plate
We were driving home before the curfew.
00:09:27:25 00:09:32:02 On Screen Plate
We do not know why it happened. It hit below the car and the car exploded.
00:09:35:06 00:09:40:01 On Screen Plate
His injury is muscle damage and shrapnel, in his hip, in his leg, everywhere.
00:09:43:07 00:09:47:26 On Screen Plate
My other son, his mouth is destroyed.
00:09:50:15 00:09:55:15 On Screen Plate
His teeth are broken and he has shrapnel.
00:09:59:23
What the Americans did in Falluja, its completely far from the view that they described it to their people back home like the reconstruction or the liberation for that city from the terrorist, the people who were in Falluja, were the people of Falluja themselves the civilians, most of the casualties or the victims of that siege were the old people, the children, because they werent able to go outside their city.
00:10:43:00
One of the things that strike you the most when you get into Iraq or when I got into Falluja is the number of children there. The Average family in Falluja has 6 to 8 children so that means that up to 60 percent of the population are children, and when we use this word, collateral damage, or when we hear about refugees or civilian casualties or the exodus of civilians most of the civilians that we are talking about are children.
00:11:010:23
And that becomes pretty obvious when you walk into these places and you find kids everywhere, when you go into the areas where the refugees are and its predominately children. Its striking and its heart breaking when you realize that most of the casualties then, the civilian casualties are children, and most of the people suffering from this military operation are children.
00:11:40:03
Operation Phantom Furry forced hundreds of thousands of civilians to evacuate Falluja
00:11:53:00
Most were given nowhere to go. They were only told to leave, or to die.
00:12:33:24 00:12:38:10 On Screen Plate
It was very difficult to leave. We had to walk out using the old Zorba, the old foot bridge.
00:12:38:11- 00:12:42:17 On Screen Plate
It is an old footbridge and it is falling apart. The people of Baghdad came to help us
00:12:42:18 00:12:46:27 On Screen Plate
They came and parked their cars on the other side of the river.
00:12:46:28 00:12:49:15 On Screen Plate
They walked across the bridge and took the children to the other side.
00:12:50:09 00:12:54:07 On Screen Plate
The Americans, they blocked the street to go out. They blocked the street to enter also.
00:12:54:08 00:12:57:14 On Screen Plate
They told us, You cant get in and you cant get out.
00:12:57:14 00:13:02:21 On Screen Plate
So the children were left in the desert without water from 6am to 6pm.
00:13:08:00
Having been giving no where to go, the hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians took shelter anywhere they could find, including abandoned buildings, cars, schools, and commercial chicken coops.
00:13:56:01
Some were lucky enough to find tents.
00:14:03:14 00:14:05:27 On Screen Plate
There is pollution and the water is very dirty.
00:14:06:04 00:14:09:09 On Screen Plate
The kids have diarrhea.
00:14:09:18 00:14:11:17 On Screen Plate
The mosquitoes, we cannot sleep at night.
00:14:11:27 00:14:15:21 On Screen Plate
Now they have problems in their lungs.
00:14:17:18
They have been living this way since November of 2004.
00:14:26:20
We have to stop this severe bleeding for the both side, which is the Americans and the Iraqis, because when a mother looses a son or daughter there is no difference, at least I dont think there is any difference between an American mother and an Iraqi mother. Both of them had such a hard time to make these sons of them raised and growing up to become something in this society, not to give them to somebody who sends them for war, for nothing, for no reason.
00:15:16:04
The stated policy goal of this administration for taking out Falluja was to break the backs of the insurgency to kill the resistance fighters that were in Falluja, to secure Iraq for the elections.
00:15:31:14
Falluja, Operation Phantom Furry, had the absolute opposite effect, it exploded the ranks of the resistance, it infuriated Iraqis, and caused most Iraqis to hate America if they didnt already, a lot of the soldiers that are being killed in Iraq is a direct consequence of this hatred. When you take out an Iraqi city, youve lost the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people.
00:16:11:05
After the fighting, the first task of the civilians of Falluja, was to bury their dead.
00:16:32:19
This is one of the many mass graves resulting from the operation Phantom Furry.
00:17:23:02
Their nightmare far from over, the civilians now returned to their once beautiful city.
00:17:40:05
Their first experience are the checkpoints.
00:17:48:04
These military checkpoints are at every entrance.
00:17:55:00
The lines are long, and the waits are longer. Some wait for days.
00:18:06:12
There are no human rights in a checkpoint.
00:18:16:00
Deadly force is authorized and used.
00:18:21:27
All people are treated like prisoners.
00:18:27:09
The men are separated and all people, men, women, and children, are searched at gunpoint.
00:19:16:04
People are lined up and taken to be fingerprinted, retina scanned and given a barcode. Now identified as residence of Falluja. They are subject to searches and detention, should they try to leave their destroyed city.
00:19:40:24
One of the things that really hit hard when we got into the city is we found mothers that were wandering the city looking for their children and fathers that were wandering through the city also looking for their children, and also what was devastating to find was that there was just children, wandering around in this live fire zone that didnt have parents anymore, they were just orphans, but they were also on there own walking through the streets of Falluja.
00:20:09:22
I was looking around, it was just like snipers everywhere on these top of the roofs of the houses, and the tanks everywhere, military everywhere, and the city smelled really really smelled bad, it was the smell of the bodies which was dropped everywhere in the street. It was like whole bodies, half bodies, which was eaten by dogs, it was terrible terrible view.
00:20:51:22
After all that they had been through to get home, the refugees of Falluja find their city in ruins.
00:21:04:14
This is a living nightmare for the people returning to their homes.
00:21:16:20
There was nothing left of their former lives, or the city they once knew.
00:21:24:03
Almost all of the houses and businesses have been destroyed or damaged.
00:21:32:22
The American media has failed to report the destruction of an entire city.
00:25:00:28 00:25:96:02 On Screen Plate
We are fighting in Falluja, first because we are defending our religion.
00:25:06:12- 00:25:13:18 On Screen Plate
because they desecrate our holy Quran, they put the Quran in the sewage.
00:25:13:19- 00:25:23:14 On Screen Plate
They rape our women they rape them in Abu Ghraib
00:25:23:15- 00:25:32:14 On Screen Plate
The raiding, the burning, the detentions, the evictions, the killing, it is continuous, every day and night.
00:25:32:15- 00:25:39:02 On Screen Plate
These are the reasons we resist the Americans
00:25:42:10- 00:25:50:22 On Screen Plate
My two year old child, she could not sleep. The airplanes were always bombing. On one side cluster bombs, the other side missiles.
00:25:50:23- 00:26:01:00 On Screen Plate
They were bombing us from everywhere. They were explosions over our heads all the time.
00:26:04:02- 00:26:10:18 On Screen Plate
Now we get the water from the tap on the street, but you cannot drink, it is very dirty, it has dirt in it.
00:26:10:29- 00:26:17:15 On Screen Plate
We bring people with clothing to filter the water through the clothing and then we drink it.
00:26:17:16- 00:26:25:26 On Screen Plate
But if you saw it, you would not even think it was clean enough to wash your clothes in.
00:26:25:27- 00:26:38:25 On Screen Plate
Now the kids are hurting with stomach problems and their kidneys are failing.
00:26:42:03- 00:26:44:02 On Screen Plate
How does the government accept this?
00:26:44:03- 00:26:49:09 On Screen Plate
They show on TV the freedom fighters and they say they are the terrorists.
00:26:49:10- 00:26:56:12 On Screen Plate
But if they are calling people here are terrorists, they why are they not calling Americans terrorists also?
00:26:56:13- 00:27:04:14 On Screen Plate
They would never accept this in their lives.
00:27:09:12
After witnessing Falluja, the destruction of entire city and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of lives, I mean the people there have had their lives destroyed. I got back to the United States and I thought that this would be a huge story and it wasnt, it was blacked out pretty much and because of that I began to be really afraid that this would become policy in Iraq, that this would become our military policy when we were attacking resistance fighters or the insurgency and it has.
00:27:41:18 -
We have done the same thing in Al Qaim, in Haditha, in Samara and as this interview is going on we are doing the same thing in Ramadi, and because the American people havent stood up and cried out for this kind of thing to stop, it has allowed it to continue and it is going on today in our names.
00:28:05:21
For me I do believe I have to do it. Any person who can help has to help. He has to keep trying to help. Its not only like just try it once and if he fail from the first time he should just stop, thats not correct. We should keep trying and trying to help the people to help each other, because if we wont help each other we wont be able to survive
00:28:37:17 Title Sequence
00:28:39:26- 00:28:43:02 On Screen Plate
This has been a joint production between Iraqi and American Filmmakers
00:28:44:21- 00:28:47:15 On Screen Plate
Directed by
Mark Manning
00:28:48:19- 00:28:51:17 On Screen Plate
Produced by
Rana Al Aiouby
00:28:52:24- 00:28:55:15 On Screen Plate
Executive Produced
by
Conception Media
00:28:57:08- 00:29:00:15 On Screen Plate
Cinematography by
Rana Al Aiouby
Mark Manning
Isam Rasheed
00:29:02:05- 00:29:05:04 On Screen Plate
Music by
Randy Tico
00:29:06:06- 00:29:09:26 On Screen Plate
Music mixed at
Eruba Studios
Santa Barbara
00:29:11:08- 00:29:13:24 On Screen Plate
Written and Edited
By
Mark Manning
00:29:15:06- 00:29:18:16 On Screen Plate
Translations by
Salam Talib
00:29:19:22- 00:29:21:20 On Screen Plate
Transcriptions by
Eliana Kaya
00:29:22:28- 00:29:23:13 On Screen Plate
I Will Fight No More
Performed by
Peter Kater and Carlos Nakai
Courtesy of
Silver Wave Records
PO Box 7943 Boulder CO 80306
800 sil-wave
www.silverwave.com
00:29:28:02- 00:29:31:28 On Screen Plate
On the Wings
Performed and written by
Elijah Bossenbrock
www.elijahbossenbrock.com
00:29:33:21- 00:29:43:10 On Screen Plate
The people of Falluja risked
Their lives to bring
This truth to the world.
We are honored to have
Experienced their wisdom,
Courage and compassion.
00:29:55:18- 00:29:58:04 On Screen Plate
© 2006 Conception Media
Start film
00:02:23:14
It was raining and in the morning two thirty in the morning, that means its night, it was a sound of pigeon, like a bird, was singing and that was a strange sound for me.
00: 02:38:10
and I just had a feeling like it might be even this bird was crying, and he was expecting that what will happen to this beautiful place which called iraq
00:02:54:06 - 00:03:00:23 On Screen Plate
On November 8th, 2004 Operation Phantom Fury, an American military operation was launched in the city of Falluja, Iraq.
00:03:03:02 - 00:03:09:09 On Screen Plate
Following the battle, and Iraqi and an American went into the city and lived with the people, to bring the story of the civilians of Falluja back to the world.
00:03:12:07 00:03:16:27 On Screen Plate
Mark Manning
Director
00:03:10:17
I was making a film about the American people and prior to the iraq war, and during the iraq war, I was traveling across the united states, I was asking Americans and not so much what you feel, across the board, I was asking them why.
00:03:23:21
and I had been in every region of the country across this country for two years and what I began to find out is that people in the united states although very emotional about the issues, really were operating on a limited set of facts. Nobody really had facts to back up there position.
00:03:44:20 00:03:49:00 On Screen Plate
Rana Al Aiouby
Producer/Humanitarian aid worker
00:03:41:10
the next day that they start the bombing which was a terrible day for me I cant even imagine that this really will happen to my country, I cant even describe it for you how was my feeling at that moment Because it just made me feel like Im going to lose my parents. Im going to loose Bagdad and Iraq which is my parents.
00:04:11:25
and knowing that I couldnt get the story from my own media, I had just realized that I had to go there myself if I really wanted to know the truth , I would have to go witness it myself.
00:04:23:02
so when I got to Jordan, we started hearing testimony from the Iraqi people about what was going on inside iraq and specifically what was going on inside Falluja. And it was very striking and a very serious testimony thats when I met Rana.
00:04:39:01
She had just come out of Falluja and she had been inside Falluja during the November Seige, and she had been in there working as an Iraqi Civilian an Iraqi woman just alone doing the work of a humanitarian and she had been going under the bombs literally under the bombs and moving families out of the way trying to ease the suffering of the civilians of Falluja.
00:05:04:16
If Im going to save the life of one person even if Im going to loose my life, I wont loose anything because I already saved the life of one person if I go to save the life of two person even if I loose my life then I will be the winner I won already two person.
00:05:26:20
Well you may just say its crazy to believe in that, its just like suicide mission but I do believe in it. Its my pleasure to help the people to help any person who is in need for help and then I just become like this.
00:05:44:05
At that point Rana asked me if I wanted to come back with her to work with her to do two things to bring the medicine to the people who needed it in Falluja and to document what had happened there and so her and I teamed up and decided to make this film, decided to go into Falluja and try to bring the truth back the American people.
00:06:14:27
Falluja called the city of Mosques located west of Bagdad in the area now called the Sunni triangle
00:06:24:21- 00:06:30:28 On Screen Plate
Cincinnati, Ohio
00:06:25:18
Falluja is roughly the same size and Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States.
00:06:32:24 00:06:45:28 On Screen Plate
Falluja, Iraq
00:06:32:27
Falluja has a population estimated to be over 250,000 civilians.
00:06:41:21
On November 8th, 2004, the city was attacked by an American led operation called Phantom Fury.
00:07:01:16
Phantom Furry was the most in intense urban fighting of the U.S. war in Iraq.
00:07:50:22
Largely unreported in the western media was the story of the civilians caught in the crossfire.
00:08:44:19
There are estimates that thousands of civilians were trapped in the city during the fighting and there are no accurate reports of their condition or there survival.
00:08:59:16 00:09:05:19 On Screen Plate
When they bombed Falluja we saw fires that were taller than this building.
00:09:05:21 00:09:14:00 On Screen Plate
I swear I was shaking, I was so scared. The shrapnel was flying over my head.
00:09:16:17 00:09:19:18 On Screen Plate
I am the father of two injured children.
00:09:20:27 00:09:25:04 On Screen Plate
We were driving home before the curfew.
00:09:27:25 00:09:32:02 On Screen Plate
We do not know why it happened. It hit below the car and the car exploded.
00:09:35:06 00:09:40:01 On Screen Plate
His injury is muscle damage and shrapnel, in his hip, in his leg, everywhere.
00:09:43:07 00:09:47:26 On Screen Plate
My other son, his mouth is destroyed.
00:09:50:15 00:09:55:15 On Screen Plate
His teeth are broken and he has shrapnel.
00:09:59:23
What the Americans did in Falluja, its completely far from the view that they described it to their people back home like the reconstruction or the liberation for that city from the terrorist, the people who were in Falluja, were the people of Falluja themselves the civilians, most of the casualties or the victims of that siege were the old people, the children, because they werent able to go outside their city.
00:10:43:00
One of the things that strike you the most when you get into Iraq or when I got into Falluja is the number of children there. The Average family in Falluja has 6 to 8 children so that means that up to 60 percent of the population are children, and when we use this word, collateral damage, or when we hear about refugees or civilian casualties or the exodus of civilians most of the civilians that we are talking about are children.
00:11:010:23
And that becomes pretty obvious when you walk into these places and you find kids everywhere, when you go into the areas where the refugees are and its predominately children. Its striking and its heart breaking when you realize that most of the casualties then, the civilian casualties are children, and most of the people suffering from this military operation are children.
00:11:40:03
Operation Phantom Furry forced hundreds of thousands of civilians to evacuate Falluja
00:11:53:00
Most were given nowhere to go. They were only told to leave, or to die.
00:12:33:24 00:12:38:10 On Screen Plate
It was very difficult to leave. We had to walk out using the old Zorba, the old foot bridge.
00:12:38:11- 00:12:42:17 On Screen Plate
It is an old footbridge and it is falling apart. The people of Baghdad came to help us
00:12:42:18 00:12:46:27 On Screen Plate
They came and parked their cars on the other side of the river.
00:12:46:28 00:12:49:15 On Screen Plate
They walked across the bridge and took the children to the other side.
00:12:50:09 00:12:54:07 On Screen Plate
The Americans, they blocked the street to go out. They blocked the street to enter also.
00:12:54:08 00:12:57:14 On Screen Plate
They told us, You cant get in and you cant get out.
00:12:57:14 00:13:02:21 On Screen Plate
So the children were left in the desert without water from 6am to 6pm.
00:13:08:00
Having been giving no where to go, the hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians took shelter anywhere they could find, including abandoned buildings, cars, schools, and commercial chicken coops.
00:13:56:01
Some were lucky enough to find tents.
00:14:03:14 00:14:05:27 On Screen Plate
There is pollution and the water is very dirty.
00:14:06:04 00:14:09:09 On Screen Plate
The kids have diarrhea.
00:14:09:18 00:14:11:17 On Screen Plate
The mosquitoes, we cannot sleep at night.
00:14:11:27 00:14:15:21 On Screen Plate
Now they have problems in their lungs.
00:14:17:18
They have been living this way since November of 2004.
00:14:26:20
We have to stop this severe bleeding for the both side, which is the Americans and the Iraqis, because when a mother looses a son or daughter there is no difference, at least I dont think there is any difference between an American mother and an Iraqi mother. Both of them had such a hard time to make these sons of them raised and growing up to become something in this society, not to give them to somebody who sends them for war, for nothing, for no reason.
00:15:16:04
The stated policy goal of this administration for taking out Falluja was to break the backs of the insurgency to kill the resistance fighters that were in Falluja, to secure Iraq for the elections.
00:15:31:14
Falluja, Operation Phantom Furry, had the absolute opposite effect, it exploded the ranks of the resistance, it infuriated Iraqis, and caused most Iraqis to hate America if they didnt already, a lot of the soldiers that are being killed in Iraq is a direct consequence of this hatred. When you take out an Iraqi city, youve lost the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people.
00:16:11:05
After the fighting, the first task of the civilians of Falluja, was to bury their dead.
00:16:32:19
This is one of the many mass graves resulting from the operation Phantom Furry.
00:17:23:02
Their nightmare far from over, the civilians now returned to their once beautiful city.
00:17:40:05
Their first experience are the checkpoints.
00:17:48:04
These military checkpoints are at every entrance.
00:17:55:00
The lines are long, and the waits are longer. Some wait for days.
00:18:06:12
There are no human rights in a checkpoint.
00:18:16:00
Deadly force is authorized and used.
00:18:21:27
All people are treated like prisoners.
00:18:27:09
The men are separated and all people, men, women, and children, are searched at gunpoint.
00:19:16:04
People are lined up and taken to be fingerprinted, retina scanned and given a barcode. Now identified as residence of Falluja. They are subject to searches and detention, should they try to leave their destroyed city.
00:19:40:24
One of the things that really hit hard when we got into the city is we found mothers that were wandering the city looking for their children and fathers that were wandering through the city also looking for their children, and also what was devastating to find was that there was just children, wandering around in this live fire zone that didnt have parents anymore, they were just orphans, but they were also on there own walking through the streets of Falluja.
00:20:09:22
I was looking around, it was just like snipers everywhere on these top of the roofs of the houses, and the tanks everywhere, military everywhere, and the city smelled really really smelled bad, it was the smell of the bodies which was dropped everywhere in the street. It was like whole bodies, half bodies, which was eaten by dogs, it was terrible terrible view.
00:20:51:22
After all that they had been through to get home, the refugees of Falluja find their city in ruins.
00:21:04:14
This is a living nightmare for the people returning to their homes.
00:21:16:20
There was nothing left of their former lives, or the city they once knew.
00:21:24:03
Almost all of the houses and businesses have been destroyed or damaged.
00:21:32:22
The American media has failed to report the destruction of an entire city.
00:25:00:28 00:25:96:02 On Screen Plate
We are fighting in Falluja, first because we are defending our religion.
00:25:06:12- 00:25:13:18 On Screen Plate
because they desecrate our holy Quran, they put the Quran in the sewage.
00:25:13:19- 00:25:23:14 On Screen Plate
They rape our women they rape them in Abu Ghraib
00:25:23:15- 00:25:32:14 On Screen Plate
The raiding, the burning, the detentions, the evictions, the killing, it is continuous, every day and night.
00:25:32:15- 00:25:39:02 On Screen Plate
These are the reasons we resist the Americans
00:25:42:10- 00:25:50:22 On Screen Plate
My two year old child, she could not sleep. The airplanes were always bombing. On one side cluster bombs, the other side missiles.
00:25:50:23- 00:26:01:00 On Screen Plate
They were bombing us from everywhere. They were explosions over our heads all the time.
00:26:04:02- 00:26:10:18 On Screen Plate
Now we get the water from the tap on the street, but you cannot drink, it is very dirty, it has dirt in it.
00:26:10:29- 00:26:17:15 On Screen Plate
We bring people with clothing to filter the water through the clothing and then we drink it.
00:26:17:16- 00:26:25:26 On Screen Plate
But if you saw it, you would not even think it was clean enough to wash your clothes in.
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Now the kids are hurting with stomach problems and their kidneys are failing.
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How does the government accept this?
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They show on TV the freedom fighters and they say they are the terrorists.
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But if they are calling people here are terrorists, they why are they not calling Americans terrorists also?
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They would never accept this in their lives.
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After witnessing Falluja, the destruction of entire city and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of lives, I mean the people there have had their lives destroyed. I got back to the United States and I thought that this would be a huge story and it wasnt, it was blacked out pretty much and because of that I began to be really afraid that this would become policy in Iraq, that this would become our military policy when we were attacking resistance fighters or the insurgency and it has.
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We have done the same thing in Al Qaim, in Haditha, in Samara and as this interview is going on we are doing the same thing in Ramadi, and because the American people havent stood up and cried out for this kind of thing to stop, it has allowed it to continue and it is going on today in our names.
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For me I do believe I have to do it. Any person who can help has to help. He has to keep trying to help. Its not only like just try it once and if he fail from the first time he should just stop, thats not correct. We should keep trying and trying to help the people to help each other, because if we wont help each other we wont be able to survive
00:28:37:17 Title Sequence
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This has been a joint production between Iraqi and American Filmmakers
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Directed by
Mark Manning
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Produced by
Rana Al Aiouby
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Executive Produced
by
Conception Media
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Cinematography by
Rana Al Aiouby
Mark Manning
Isam Rasheed
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Music by
Randy Tico
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Music mixed at
Eruba Studios
Santa Barbara
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Written and Edited
By
Mark Manning
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Translations by
Salam Talib
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Transcriptions by
Eliana Kaya
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I Will Fight No More
Performed by
Peter Kater and Carlos Nakai
Courtesy of
Silver Wave Records
PO Box 7943 Boulder CO 80306
800 sil-wave
www.silverwave.com
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On the Wings
Performed and written by
Elijah Bossenbrock
www.elijahbossenbrock.com
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The people of Falluja risked
Their lives to bring
This truth to the world.
We are honored to have
Experienced their wisdom,
Courage and compassion.
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© 2006 Conception Media