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A new threat to Fallujah
FELICITY ARBUTHNOT on the rise of al-Qaida-affiliated militancy in the Iraqi city that's long been a target of aggression by the West
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Fallujah has become a symbol of Iraq's suffering since the onslaught on the country in 1991, which was followed in 2003 by invasion, occupation and misery unending.
In 1991 a busy market was bombed, as was a hotel, which was levelled. Two hundred people were incinerated.
Another attack "destroyed a row of modern, concrete, five and six-storey apartment buildings, as well as several other houses nearby."
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