"The steadily deteriorating security situation in the Falluja area, west of Baghdad, has become so dangerous that no American soldiers or Iraqi security staff responded to the attack against the contractors.
There are a number of police stations in Falluja and a base of more than 4,000 marines nearby. But even while the two vehicles burned, sending plumes of inky smoke over the closed shops of the city, there were no ambulances, no fire engines and no security.
Instead, Falluja's streets were thick with men and boys and chaos."
Т.е в Фаллудже так страшно, что не только никакой помощи не послали, но даже марины боятся навести порядок.
Более желтые газеты уже давно пишут, что один пряник без кнута не работает. Посмотрим что дальше.