American plans for Fallujah
Alternet picks through recent reports from various sources to piece together a picture of how Fallujah may be run by the Americans and the local Iraqi government – after they are able to disengage from the ongoing fighting there.
This measure and its underlying purpose:
Fallujans are to wear their universal identity cards in plain sight at all times. The ID cards will, according to Dahr Jamail’s information, be made into badges that contain the individual’s home address. This sort of system has no purpose except to allow for the monitoring of everyone in the city, so that ongoing American patrols can quickly determine if someone is not a registered citizen or is suspiciously far from their home neighborhood.is not so very different from this one, is it? The one allows identification of the friend at a glance, the other allows the “enemy” to be identified. Welcome to democracy as defined by the neo-conservatives in the American government.