Photo: Majid Madloul Mohammed is a 47-year-old retired policeman who lives in Fallujah, in western Iraq's restive Anbar province, with his wife and five children. He says that when the U.S. invaded, he believed things would get better. But the reality has been far different. Ali Omar for NPRFrom NPR:
Friday marks the sixth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, and perhaps no Iraqi city has faced the horrors of the conflict like Fallujah in western Anbar province.
Once the heart of the insurgency, Fallujah residents have lived under al-Qaida rule, faced two American offensives, witnessed former insurgents become security officers, and now are waiting for reconstruction to finally begin.
And possibly no single family in Fallujah has been affected by the fortunes of their home city as much as Majid Madloul Mohammed, his wife, Muna Abdul Ellah Abbas, and their five children.
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