Resistance Growing Up at School

Inter Press Service, Ali Al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail

The bomb went off just outside the school as the IPS correspondent stood speaking to children and teachers within. The headmaster smiled. "You will hear many of these every day if you stay here another day or two," he said. "The resistance will not stop until the last American leaves." The children too took no notice of the blast, which shook the doors and windows of the half-destroyed school in this town near Fallujah, 70km west of Baghdad. The children are growing up in occupied Iraq -- and they are resisting it. "Americans are bad," said 11-year-old Mustafa. "They killed my family." The family were killed in Operation Phantom Fury of November 2004 as they tried to flee the city, teachers said. That operation killed thousands and destroyed much of Fallujah and towns around it...

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