Ash-Sharq al-Awsat reports from Kuwaiti sources that the destruction visted on Najaf by the US assault on the Sadrists in August is far more extensive than usually realized. Ali al-Mu'min, who is with a humanitarian organization, said that ordinary activities were still at a standstill in Najaf, which seemed substantially depopulated, and that vast swathes of its buildings and homes had been destroyed.
The report is supported by the following email I received from Europe:
. . The Najafi guy living at my house got a phone call from Najaf on Saturday. Hotel Nejef and Hotel "Imam Ali" (newly built in 2002) were flattened by American cruise missiles during these last Sadrist months. Sadrist snipers were said to be the reason . . . Rajul Street, B's childhood "hood" is rubble. Old, culturally, historically valuable buildings and surroundings like bazaar environment areas, several hundred years old, are rubble and dust.The Valley of Peace, this huge churchyard is littered with cluster bomb cans - unexploded. Someone should dig in to that fact.
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