June 16, two reporters for the Knight-Rider chain wrote: about the Faluji area:“In dozens of interviews during the past five days, most residents across the area said there was no Baathist or Sunni conspiracy against US soldiers, there were only people ready to fight because their relatives had been hurt or killed, or they themselves had been humiliated by home searches and road stops... One woman said, after her husband was taken from their home because of empty wooden crates which they had bought for firewood, that the United States is guilty of terrorism.”