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US army blocks aid convoy for Falluja<br>
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Monday 29 November 2004 9:46 PM GMT <br><br>
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</font><font size=1><b>US forces have stopped the convoy from entering
the city <br><br>
</font><font size=3>The US military has prevented an aid convoy from
reaching the besieged city of Falluja, a doctor based in Baghdad who
accompanied the convoy says.<br><br>
</b></font><font size=2>"The Iraqi ministry of health asked us to go
to Falluja. When we were on our way, the US army stopped our convoy, and
carried out a search," said Dr Ibrahim al-Kubaisi. <br><br>
"After we waited in the US base, located near Falluja, for four
hours, a doctor told us that they had agreed with the Iraqi ministry of
health to send a medical team to Falluja but only after eight or nine
days.<br><br>
"There is a terrible crime going in Falluja and they do not want
anybody to know. I transferred four injured people from the Jordanian
field hospital to a hospital in Baghdad. <br><br>
"They told me that there is a crime in there; chemical weapons are
being used. The corpses don't have traces of gunshots but black
patches.<br><br>
"US forces allow people to go into al-Hadra al-Muhammadiya area, in
Falluja, but they prohibited anybody to enter al-Julan, al-Askari and
al-Senai neighbourhoods. <br><br>
"There are Iraqi families under siege in there," the doctor
said.<br><br>
The humanitarian situation for Falluja residents has been reported to be
dire. Thousands of Falluja residents have fled the city and are living in
makeshift shelters surrounding the city.</font><font size=3> <br><br>
<b>Aljazeera<br>
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</b>You can find this article at:<br>
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