Inside Fallujah
Subtitle: the unembedded story
By: by Ahmed Mansour.
Publisher: Olive Branch Press, an imprint of Interlink Pub. Group
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9781566567787
Subjects: Mansour, Ahmed; Al Jazeera (Television network); Fallujah, Battle of, Fallūjah, Iraq, 2004 -- Personal narratives, Qatarian; Iraq War, 2003- -- Personal narratives, Qatarian
Genres: Personal narratives, Qatarian
Description: The al-Jazeera reporter's account of what happened inside Fallujah during the U.S. siege.

A courageous work of journalism by the only reporter to remain in Fallujah during the US siege of the city. In 2004, the United States waged one of the bloodiest battles of the Iraq war in the city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad. For many the city was a symbol of the resistance to the US war and occupation; since the battle it has become a symbol of the worst of the USA-Iraq war. Only one television station -- Al Jazeera -- stayed in Fallujah to report on the battle, and the horrifying and heartbreaking images seen worldwide came from reporter Ahmed Mansour and cameraman Laith Mushtaq. The images so outraged the world that the US military made Mansour's leaving Fallujah the first condition for a ceasefire. Donald Rumsfeld called his reporting "vicious and inaccurate," and argued that they were propagandists: "What they do is when a bomb goes down, they grab some children and some women and pretend that the bomb hit the women and children." Here, for the first time in English, is the renowned reporter's own view of what happened inside Fallujah. It is the untold story of a defining battle that determined the future of the US occupation of Iraq; the story of a city that shattered US designs not only for Iraq but the region as a whole.