Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Under US noses, brutal insurgents rule Sunni citadel

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Under US noses, brutal insurgents rule Sunni citadel:

"DVDs of beheadings on the bridge are distributed free in the souk. Children prefer them to cartoons. 'They should not watch such things,' said one grandfather, but parents appeared not to object.

One DVD features a young, blond muscular man who had been disembowelled. He was said to have been a member of a six-strong US sniper team ambushed and killed on August 1. Residents said he had been paraded in town before being executed.

The US military denied that, saying six bodies were recovered and that all appeared to have died in combat. Shortly after the ambush three landmines killed 14 marines in a convoy which ventured from their base outside the town."