Jo Wilding took a second trip into Fallujah Saturday. Here’s how it went:<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Lee says we\u2019re press and he looks with disdain at the car. \u201cIn this piece of shit?\u201d<\/p>\n Makes us less of a target for kidnappers, Lee tells him. Suddenly he decides he recognises Lee from the TV. Based in Germany, he watches the BBC. He sees Lee on TV all the time. \u201cCool. Hey, can I have your autograph?\u201d<\/p>\n Lee makes a scribble, unsure who he\u2019s meant to be but happy to have a ticket through the checkpoint which all the cars before us have been turned back from, and Sergeant Tratner carries on. \u201cYou guys be careful in Falluja. We\u2019re killing loads of those folks.\u201d Detecting a lack of admiration on our part, he adds, \u201cWell, they\u2019re killing us too. I like Falluja. I killed a bunch of them mother fuckers.\u201d<\/p>\n I wish Sergeant Tratner were a caricature, a stereotype, but these are all direct quotations. We fiddle with our hijabs in the roasting heat. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to wear those things any more,\u201d he says. \u201cYou\u2019re liberated now.\u201d He laughs. I mention that more and more women are wearing hijabs nowadays because of increasing attacks on them.<\/i> … read more<\/a><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jo Wilding took a second trip into Fallujah Saturday. Here’s how it went: Sergeant Tratner of the First Armoured Division is irritated. \u201cGit back or you\u2019ll git killed,\u201d are his opening words. Lee says we\u2019re press and he looks with disdain at the car. \u201cIn this piece of shit?\u201d Makes us less of a target […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"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-792","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\/792","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Sergeant Tratner of the First Armoured Division is irritated. \u201cGit back or you\u2019ll git killed,\u201d are his opening words.<\/p>\n