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...tiny town of Crawford is Fort Qualls named in honor of Cpl. Louis Wayne Qualls killed in Fallujah last fall. Among the patriotic displays are the three crosses bearing his son's name that Gary Qualls has retrieved from the antiwar protest site. "There is a big difference between our wants and our needs," Qualls said. "We know what Cindy wants, but we know what our needs...
...father of Thomas J. Zapp, a Marine lance corporal killed near Fallujah on Nov. 8, 2004, made a pilgrimage from Richmond, Texas, to Crawford last week. He came to see Cindy Sheehan, not President Bush. "I want to sit down and talk to her," explains Zapp. "She says that a lot of people don't understand what's she's been through. Well, I do." That would probably be where their understanding ends. When Zapp learned of his son's death, it only strengthened his robust support for the war. "It made me prouder to be an American," he says...
BIRTH OF A JIHADI Marwan's journey toward suicide murderer began just a few weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Before the war, he had been one of Fallujah's privileged young men: his father's successful business earned enough--even during the difficult years when the West imposed economic sanctions on Iraq--to provide a good life for Marwan and his six brothers and four sisters. In high school, he was an average student but excelled in Koranic studies at the local mosque...
Unlike many other Sunnis in Fallujah, Marwan had little love for Saddam's Sunni-led regime. Yet once the dictator fell, he turned against the Americans. "We expected them to bring Saddam down and then leave," he says. "But they stayed and stayed." Insurgents approached disaffected Fallujis like Marwan and urged them to join the resistance against the Americans. Many signed up, including one of Marwan's older brothers. Marwan joined the insurgency in April 2003 when U.S. soldiers fired on a crowd of demonstrators at a school, killing 12 and wounding many more. Marwan, who took part...
...well: in April 2004 he was approached by Attawhid's spiritual guide, Palestinian-born Abu Anas al-Shami. Marwan says al-Shami, reputed to be a powerful orator and motivator, had a deep impact on him. (Al-Shami was killed in a rocket attack by U.S. forces near Fallujah in late...