The city of Fallujah was handed over to former Baathist Major General Muhammed Latif, replaced a U.S. choice, Muhammed Saleh, who was discovered to have been involved in the earlier atrocities against Kurds during the Iran-Iraq war. Fallujah (Arabic: فلوجة; sometimes transliterated as Falluja and less commonly Fallouja, Falloujah, Faloojah, Faloojeh) is a city of about 350,000 inhabitants in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, located roughly 69km (43 miles) west of Baghdad on the Euphrates. ... Kurds are one of the Iranian peoples and speak Kurdish, a north-Western Iranian language related to Persian. ... Iranian troops in the northern front. ...
(I'm coming back to work on this article, just put this stub here to remind myself) --Sherurcij 22:49, May 2, 2005 (UTC)
The city of Fallujah was handed over to former Baathist Major General MuhammedLatif, replacing n earlier choice, Muhammed Saleh, who was discovered to have been involved in the earlier atrocities against Kurds during the Iran-Iraq war.
Latif was granted the right to raise an army of 1100 soldiers known as the Fallujah Brigade, who would wear their Baathist military uniforms and control the city which US forces had proven unable to pacify.
Within days, the city's mayor, Muhammed Ibrahim Al-Juraissey said that there was a visible difference as the city began to calm now under Islamic leadership once again.
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