U.S. forces abandon their barracks in Ramadi- Report
3/30/2005 7:58:00 AM GMT

It has been reported that the U.S. forces started early Monday abandoning one of their barracks in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, after intensive rocket bombardments blasted the facility throughout last week.

U.S. Marine Sergeant who gave his name as Dudin has been quoted by unknown news sources as saying that the U.S. occupation forces started leaving their position in a glass and ceramic factory behind the Al Warrar Bridge west of Ramadi after being targeted several times by resistance fighters’ attacks.

The sergeant added that the Marines would “continue to exert control over the area with the help of Iraqi forces from another barracks that we will work to make available at a later time.”

At around 10:00 am Monday morning, the U.S. troops threw out families from three houses near the factory, setting up observation posts on the buildings’ roofs to be able to watch and thus prevent residents from leaving the street on which they have now settled in, witnesses said.

This not the first time for the American forces to use civilians living in the neighborhood as human shields, knowing that the Iraqi resistance fighters would never risk harming the innocent civilians to attack the Americans settled in among them.

After being thrown out of their homes by the American forces, the three families were then told that they would receive compensation for their houses, to rent housing in other parts of the city.
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