{"id":1172,"date":"2004-07-18T12:27:23","date_gmt":"2004-07-18T19:27:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-07-18T12:27:23","modified_gmt":"2004-07-18T19:27:23","slug":"peaceful-fallujah-gets-bombed-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/18\/peaceful-fallujah-gets-bombed-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Peaceful Fallujah gets bombed again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting juxtaposition of articles that came over the news service I read within minutes of one another:<\/p>\n

Fallujah savors peace<\/a><\/p>\n

FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) – Two months after U.S. Marines pulled out, residents of Fallujah feel safe again, sleeping on their roofs to escape the heat without fear of the once-constant nighttime gunbattles, and traveling the streets without worrying they could be stopped or detained.<\/p>\n

Fallujah, they say, is savoring its most peaceful spell in more than a year. U.S. forces camped on the city’s outskirts say they want to return to help out, but no one here is interested……<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

U.S. Airstrike in Fallujah Kills 14<\/a><\/p>\n

BAGHDAD, Iraq – A U.S. airstrike Sunday on a Fallujah neighborhood previously targeted by American forces destroyed a house and killed 14 people, hospital and local officials said.<\/p>\n

Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s office said he had given the go-ahead for the attack. U.S. officials declined to provide details of the strike. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess, considering the history of the American Occupation forces’ violent relationship with the people of Fallujah, having a house bombed every now and then could be said to be relatively peaceful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting juxtaposition of articles that came over the news service I read within minutes of one another: Fallujah savors peace FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) – Two months after U.S. Marines pulled out, residents of Fallujah feel safe again, sleeping on their roofs to escape the heat without fear of the once-constant nighttime gunbattles, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}