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Caught in the Crossfire - The Untold Story of Falluja

by Open-Publishing - Friday 21 October 2005
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Caught in the Crossfire - The Untold Story of Falluja

A film by Mark Manning and Conception Media - To be Released October 18, 2005

http://www.conceptionmedia.net/

http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/multi_media/

CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE

A FUNDRAISER FOR IRAQI CIVILIANS: Victims of combat operations in Iraq

ConceptionMedia presents:

A Joint Production of Iraqi & American Filmmakers

CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE
THE UNTOLD STORY OF FALLUJA
ON SALE NOW

Proceeds go to ongoing relief efforts in Iraq

See the trailer and purchase the DVD:

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Shot from November 2004 to April 2005 inside the city of Falluja, ’Caught in the Crossfire’ details the conditions experienced by civilians as they endured the violent clashes and consequences of Operation Phantom Fury and became refugees outside the eyes and care of the international community. A joint production between American and Iraqi filmmakers, ’Caught in the Crossfire’ was filmed entirely un-embedded, outside the protection or influence of the military or corporate media, in order to capture the unique and honest perspective of the civilians themselves.

ON SALE NOW $24.95

Purchase the DVD:

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Proceeds from the sale of this film go directly to aid the innocent civilians and refugees caught in the crossfire of combat areas inside Iraq.

The plight of the civilians is THE unreported story of the Iraq war. The refugees of Falluja risked their lives to bring this story to you.

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"If you want to know what happened inside Fallujah during the November, 2004 assault on the city, this film is a must see. I could not recommend this film more highly." -Dahr Jamail

You may also find a link to view trailer and purchase this film:

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Caught in the Crossfire was shot from November 2004 to April 2005 inside the city of Falluja, Iraq. The film details the conditions experienced by the civilians of Falluja as they endured the violent clashes and consequences of Operation Phantom Fury and became refugees outside the eyes and care of the international community.

A joint production of American and Iraqi filmmakers, Caught in the Crossfire was filmed entirely un-embedded, outside the protection or influence of the military or corporate media, to bring a unique and honest perspective of Iraqi civilians to the world.

Proceeds for the the sale of this film go directly to aid the innocent civilians caught in the crossfire of combat areas inside Iraq.

See the preview:

http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/multi_media/

Forum posts

  • Thank you for bringing out the truth! We already knew about this genocide, called collateral damage.

    The American Army should be ashamed, they don’t fight like men - they are cowards!

  • I love the United States. It is the greatest country ever known to mankind. It is not perfect, but it is excellent. Its only 229 years old. The Middle East is thousands of years old. Europe too is thousands of years old. The USA started with a group of people who were oppressed and they risked their lives and left dictatorial Europe. They set up a new government system that worked so well and offered its people so much freedom that it grew into the world’s strongest and most advanced country in the history of mankind.

    What was the Middle East doing all this time? Noting!!!! What was Europe doing all this time? Trying to concore the world and going everywhere to do it and fighting between themselves for the spoils.

    So this film, this Untold Story of Falluja, is supposed to enlighten us on what really happened. What is the matter with you?. The store has always been told long before, during, and after this assault. The US military had a very difficult job to do. They are the best-trained soldiers in the world. They know how to get this kind of difficult responsible underway and complete it with absolutely the minim civilian casualties. Does that mean there won’t be any. NO is does not. Does it mean the US military is better at keeping these causalities at lower levels then any other military in the world, YES is does.

    The US military and those countries with the courage to support these efforts were given the extremely difficult assignment to root out, capture, or kill if necessary, any and all terrorists and rebel activity and resistance. These terrorists were warned many times but they did not want to stop their beheadings, or their execution stile single head shots or foreigners and even almost countless civilians among their own people.

    The real untold stores of Fallija is how much civilian causality occurred at the hands of the terrorists with their reckless booby traps, bombings, rocket fired grenades, and reckless shooting of AK47’s. Equally atrocious was their terrorizing their own people with death threats if they did anything to help the US military and those other countries with the courage to fight alone side the USA. But the DOWN ON THE USA crowd doesn’t want to count that because it doesn’t help bash on the USA.

    As a whole, the socialist left agenda has always been down on the USA. We see it through out liberal Europe, especially France and Germany. But all of these complainers either have fare less then the USA and always will, or they see their chance at getting t equal or greater powers, like France and their power hungry EU leadership fanaticizes. This phenomenon is not new nor is it anymore intelligent then in the past. The only difference today is the USA is getting all of the worlds frustrations blamed on it so to hurt it and weaken it so they can have the power. If you don’t believe that they your not playing with a full deck.

    Well the USA has broad shoulders and it can take more abuse then anyone who is throwing stones at it. So if you think you personally have a better idea than a 229 years old county that has build itself into the worlds richest and strongest country the world has ever known then when you offer a criticism, lets here an intelligent suggestion to go along with it. Or to put it frankly, grow up.

    • If you’re not on Bu$hco’s pay roll, you should be. In the mean time get your head out of your ass. You give this account of the people who founded the U.S. and leave out the most important fact that these people were running from religious persecution. The same kind of religious persecution that is coming from the leadership of the U.S. today. As the phony hypocritical "Christians" want to shove their shitty ridiculous beliefs down the throat of every citizen here, I have news for you you bastard....I will never join your disgusting warmongering murdering religion no matter how hard you push it on me. I do not care if you take over the entire government and the rest of the Supreme Court, I will become an insurgent in my country just as the Iraqis have been forced to do. I will not sit by and let you religious freaks and your freak show tell me how to live my life and , remember you are just a hemorrhoid on the rear end of the human race, and no matter how you try to package yourself you are just another brain dead waste of the air you breathe.

    • This is a reply to 200.150: This country’s history didn’t start with the signing of the Declaration of Independence. That’s a mistake on your part. In fact your post is strewn with inaccuracies and poorly thought assumptions, and I will try to delineate them one at a time. But first, let me see if you can answer these questions truthfully: does Iraq belong to the US?
      If it does, than I guess the US has all the right in the world to kill Iraqis with impunity, after all according to your post they have done absolutely nothing, NOTHING, for the last 229 years, so they deserve lives of misery. By the way where are you from? Is it also a country that has absolutely done nothing for the last 229 years? Maybe the US ought to invade your country because of its shameless inactivity and make your countrymen’s lives miserable as punishment for their grave sins of indolence and laziness. Back to the questions:

      Did the people of Iraq ever attack any American city or any American force prior to the invasion?
      Who financed Saddam Hussein’s military designs and gave him weapons of mass destruction, allowing him to tyrannize his people for over twenty years? Was it you, mon ami?
      Who covertly toppled a legitimately elected government in Iran back in 1952, and placed in power a Shah, who eventually was so hated by his people that he was forced out of power in 1979? You probably did not know this, but that wouldn’t surprise me, you seem so incredibly naive about my country’s motives and modus operandi. The US is not nearly as benevolent as you seem to think it is. Not even close. If you care to survive in this world you better start understanding what motivates large nation-states to war, and ’liberation’ and ’democracy’ has never been one of them. They are slogans for the gun bunnies and cannon fodder to follow, and fools such as yourself.
      HOW MUCH MONEY DOES THE US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OWE NOW? I’ll allow your enfeebled brain to do the legwork on this question. Your brain is in great need of exercise. I’ll only this: no one of my generation will see the end of this debt, unless the Federal Government goes bankrupt.
      CAN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AFFORD any more military adventures in the world, especially ones that have no basis whatsoever other than to control the raw materials and resources of another country? No, we can’t, but that’s not going to stop this lawless administration from trying. They will be our ruin.
      If you can answer these simple questions truthfully, then you can see that the US has no moral leg to stand on whatsoever when they invaded Iraq, nor do they have the finances to keep their war machine running for very much longer. These facts are available to any one in this world who isn’t afraid to find them. It is you that does not have a full deck, not the anti-war movement. It is you that is being unintelligent, and yes, extremely stupid. The anti-war movement in this country is all about reclaiming those virtues of independence and freedom that forged our Revolution, virtues that have been scrapped by an out of control administration that confuses peace with war, and tyranny with democracy. What the world sees in Iraq is not ’liberation’, it is occupation, it is aggression, it is tyranny. It is death.
      And as for your belief that the majority of the casualties in Fallujah’s horrible siege of the past year were caused by insurgents, go to www.notinourname.net, or www.iraqbodycount.net. They along with many other independent news outlets, have statistics that show that over twice as many civilians were killed at the hands of the US military, than by the terrorists or the insurgents. You forget that is Uncle Sam with the warplanes, the napalm, the tow missles and the warships, not the insurgents. That is the reason for this film, which you very obviously have not bothered to see at all. If you choose to remain ignorant on relevant material, than you should have the good grace to keep out of the debate.
      During the American Revolution many of the rebels, what we Americans now call patriots, were labeled ’terrorists’ and ’insurrectionists’ by their British enemies. How are they different from the Iraqi insurgents who are now fighting for their country? Or are they not entitled to have a country without foreign forces intervening in their affairs? Are they not entitled to have a country without foreign soldiers stationed in every corner, in every square? Is it because they are Muslim and so deserve to live in misery and die?
      You must confront your own personal prejudices to see where your logic fails you, and come to grips with reality of this world. What you believe in, a heroic America, is a thing of the past. You should not be clinging on to pipe-dreams that can only lead us all to catastrophe.

  • Ausschwitz - Treblinka - Hiroshima - Nagasaki - My Lai - Fallujah. Places of cowardice and human failure! Why let we happen it again?