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The
Forever WAR
The
Forever WAR
DEXTER FILKINS
Portions of this work are based upon and include excerpts from the
following pieces that the author wrote for the Los Angeles Times: “In the
Villages, Taliban’s Absolute Hold on Power Begins to Slip” (August 14,
2000), “Where War’s Legacy Is Just a Step Away” (July 18, 2000), “An
Afghan Lion Looks at Possible Final Stand” (April 26, 1999), “Captives for
the Taliban’s Cause” (April 25, 1999), “Afghans Pay Dearly for Peace”
(September 22, 1998), “Afghans Report Ethnic Massacre by Taliban”
(September 18, 1998), “Afghans Starve from Within” (May 8, 1998), and
“U.S. Ambassador Receives Promise of Peace Talks in Visit to Afghanistan”
(April 18, 1998). All material from these articles is copyright © by the
Los Angeles Times and is reprinted by permission of the Los Angeles Times.
Other portions of this work are based on pieces that the author wrote for
The New York Times. All material from these articles is copyright © by
The New York Times and appears courtesy of The New York Times.
v1.0
To Khalid Hassan and Fakher Haider,
friends and colleagues who were killed
while looking for the truth,
and
Lance Corporal William L. Miller,
who went first
He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a
secret. He thought the world’s heart beat at some terri-
ble cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved
in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this
headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ulti-
mately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.
11 Pearland 189
Habibi 214
12 The Vanishing World 218
Communiqués (1) 234
13 Just Talking 239
14 The Mahdi 245
15 Proteus 254
Your Name 267
Communiqués (2) 269
16 The Revolution Devours Its Own 272
The Normal 278
17 The Labyrinth 281
The Wall 292
18 Fuck Us 296
19 The Boss 307
20 The Turning 315
21 The Departed 328
Epilogue: Laika 335
Acknowledgments 343
Notes 347
Index 355
The
Forever WAR
prologue
Hells Bells
Falluja, Iraq,
November 2004
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he marines were pressed flat on a rooftop when the
dialogue began to unfold. It was 2 a.m. The minarets
were flashing by the light of airstrikes and rockets
were sailing on trails of sparks. First came the voices from the
mosques, rising above the thundery guns.
“The Americans are here!” howled a voice from a loud-
speaker in a minaret. “The Holy War, the Holy War! Get up
and fight for the city of mosques!”
Bullets poured without direction and without end. No one
lifted his head.
“This is crazy,” one of the marines yelled to his buddy over
the noise.
“Yeah,” the buddy yelled back, “and we’ve only taken one
house.”
And then, as if from the depths, came a new sound: violent,
menacing and dire. I looked back over my shoulder to where
we had come from, into the vacant field at Falluja’s northern
edge. A group of marines were standing at the foot of a gigan-
tic loudspeaker, the kind used at rock concerts.
It was AC/DC, the Australian heavy metal band, pouring
out its unbridled sounds. I recognized the song immediately:
“Hells Bells,” the band’s celebration of satanic power, had
come to us on the battlefield. Behind the strains of its guitars,
a church bell tolled thirteen times.
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I’m a rolling thunder, a pouring rain
I’m comin’ on like a hurricane
My lightning’s flashing across the sky
You’re only young but you’re gonna die
“God is Great!”
The shouting continued until the houses in front of us
were obliterated and the firing and the music began to die.
For seven months Falluja had been controlled by jihadis
who had held the city in a medieval thrall. And now the
marines were taking it back, six thousand of them, going into
the city on foot in the middle of a November night. I was trav-
eling with a company of 150 marines called Bravo, of the First
Battalion, Eighth Regiment. Ashley Gilbertson, an Australian
photographer, was with me.
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three columns, one for each platoon. We moved half a block
before the mortar fire began. Big mortars, 82 millimeters,
exploding in the next street over. Everyone froze but Read
Omohundro, a stocky Texan and Bravo Company’s com-
mander. Omohundro was thirty-four, which was old for a
marine captain. He’d enlisted out of high school, went to
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