The Ghettos of Babylon

The cities of Fallujah and Tal Afar are locked down. Each resident has an city identity card, complete with fingerprints, retina scan and extensive identification. There are checkpoints on the borders of the city and special permission is needed to go to any other city. Ghettos are closed, militarized cities while freedom sings underground in the oil fields of Iraq.

A US soldier told me that six months before the invasion of Iraq in April 2003, he was in Kuwait preparing and training how to most effectively protect oil fields. The oil fields in Iraq are kept safe while Iraqi civilians are shut up and locked down in urban cages.