IRAQ: FALLUJAH

Guardian: US-Destroyed Falluja New World Monument To Brutality By Jonathan Steele and Dahr Jamail

Remember Falluja? A city of some 300,000, which was alleged to be the stronghold of armed resistance to the occupation.

In the 1930s the Spanish city of Guernica became a symbol of wanton murder and destruction. In the 1990s Grozny was cruelly flattened by the Russians; it still lies in ruins. This decade's unforgettable monument to brutality and overkill is Falluja, a text-book case of how not to handle an insurgency, and a reminder that unpopular occupations will always degenerate into desperation and atrocity.