You've been reading the version of Falluja from the left -- now read the version from the right. It's one of Instapundit's finds that would be too easy to overlook if you were just scrolling down through Glenn's cryptic little teasers. It's by Stephen Schwartz from Tech Central Station. Here's the gist:
[T]he jihadists had set up a Taliban-style dictatorship, in which women who did not cover their entire bodies, people listening to music, and members of spiritual Sufi orders -- that is, ordinary Fallujans -- were subject to torture and execution.
The Fallujans have learned the same lesson the Shias learned before them, and the Afghans before them: U.S. boots on Muslim soil may be onerous, but American military action is preferable to the unspeakably vicious criminality of Islamist extremists financed, recruited, and otherwise encouraged by Wahhabism, the state religion in Saudi Arabia.
Read on, and get your brain rebalanced.
"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth." - Nietzsche
- amba
UPDATE: And from Strategypage:
American troops now control all of Fallujah and have found extensive evidence of terrorist and criminal gangs using the city as a headquarters. Evidence was found of torture chambers, and video sets used for filming the execution of kidnap victims. Moreover, the body of a woman, thought to be foreign aid executive (Care International) Margaret Hassan, was also found in Fallujah. A video of her murder was recently released by her killers, and it appears that the killing was done in Fallujah. Without Fallujah as a “safe area” for keeping hostages, killing them, and getting away with it, the terrorists have to do their dirty work in cities where there is a strong police presence, and nearby American troops. That’s what’s happening in Baghdad, Mosul and other cities right now. The gangs are trying to control neighborhoods in these cities, and are not succeeding.
Funny, I haven't heard any of this on CNN . . . :0
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