IRAQ THE MODEL: "Most Americans do not realize that Fallujah is celebrated in Iraqi history and poetry for its defiance of the British in the Great Rebellion of 1920. The 1920 revolution against the British is key to modern Iraqi history. One of the guerrilla groups taking hostages named itself the '1920 Revolution Brigades.' Western journalists who don't know Iraqi history have routinely mistranslated the name of this group"

(Via Iraq The Model.)