Ashton Kutcher

Kutcher also owns an Italian restaurant in Los Angeles named Dolce; he has two toes that are fused together on his left foot. By the end of 2005 several US soldiers had been killed by snipers and roadside bombs in and around Falluja and in January 2006 the US army base located outside Fallujah has come under heavy mortar fire. Kutcher has been reported to celebrate traditional Jewish holidays [1], take time off from filming [2] and was married in a Kabbalah ceremony by a rabbi. troops have been reported in the press. Both Kutcher and Moore are fairly devout followers of Kabbalah, a mystical off-shoot of the Jewish religion. Since the US military operation of November 2004, the number of insurgent attacks has gradually increased in and around the city, and although news reports are often few and far between, several reports of IED attacks on Iraqi and U.S. Following his break-up with Murphy in mid 2003, Kutcher began dating actress Demi Moore, whom he married on September 24, 2005 in a lavish ceremony in Los Angeles, California. Thus, over 150,000 individuals are still living as IDPs in harsh conditions in tent cities outside Fallujah or elsewhere in Iraq.

Kutcher has dated a variety of celebrities, including actresses January Jones (from 1998 to 2001), Ashley Scott (from 2001 to 2002), Monet Mazur (2002) and his Just Married co-star, Brittany Murphy, whom he dated from 2002 to 2003. Pre-offensive inhabitant figures are unreliable; the nominal population was assumed to have been 200-350,000. Kutcher is also the producer of the reality-television show, Beauty and the Geek, which began in 2005. This is also due to the fact that only 10% of the pre-offensive inhabitants had returned as of mid-January, and only 30% as of the end of March 2005 [4]. In order to avoid the lawsuits, the videotaping of Rodriguez's prank was destroyed without any release and Vartan's prank has not been aired. Reconstruction is only progressing slowly and mainly consists of clearing rubble from heavily-damaged areas and reestablishing basic utility services. The series involves various hidden camera tricks performed on celebrities; the series has sometimes led to controversy, as when New York Yankees' third-baseman Alex Rodriguez and actor Michael Vartan, both victims of the show's pranks, threatened to sue Kutcher. According to Mike Marqusee of Iraq Occupation Focus writing in the Guardian [3], "Falluja's compensation commissioner has reported that 36,000 of the city's 50,000 homes were destroyed, along with 60 schools and 65 mosques and shrines".

In 2003, Kutcher used his status as a television star to produce and star in his own series on MTV, Punk'd. According to the NBC [2], 9,000 homes were destroyed, thousands more were damaged and of the 32,000 compensation claims only 2,500 have been paid as of April 14, 2005. His 2004 film, The Butterfly Effect, was an unusually dramatic role for Kutcher and was also deemed a box office success. William Brown [1]. Kutcher achieved some stardom and was cast in a series of film roles; although he auditioned but was not cast in the role of Danny Walker in Pearl Harbor (2001), he starred in a few financially successful comedic films, including Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), Just Married (2003) and Guess Who (2005). Col. However, a month later, he was discovered in a bar in Iowa City, Iowa and cast in the television series That '70s Show, which became a success. US officials report that "more than half of Fallujah's 39,000 homes were damaged, and about 10,000 of those were destroyed" while compensation amounts to 20 percent of the value of damaged houses, with an estimated 32,000 homeowners eligible, according to Marine Lt.

After some success in modeling, Kutcher had planned to move to Hollywood, but was asked to return to college by his mother. Residents were allowed to return to the city in mid-December after undergoing biometric identification, provided they wear their ID cards all the time. In 1997, he dropped out in order to pursue a modeling career, some of which involved working in underwear ads . This led to a failed US attempt to recapture control of the city in Operation Vigilant Resolve, a siege of the city called Operation Plymouth Rock and a successful recapture of the city, resulting in the death of over 1,000 insurgent fighters, in November 2004 called Operation Phantom Fury. Kutcher majored in biochemical engineering and was a member of the Delta Chi fraternity at the University of Iowa. These acts were videotaped by journalists and broadcast worldwide. He was expelled from Clear Creek-Amana, his high school, for underaged drinking, and arrested at age 18 for breaking into the school with a friend and stealing money from a vending machine. A crowd of militants and townsfolk, estimated to number over a thousand, beat and dragged the burnt corpses behind automobiles, then hanged the dismembered remains from the girders of Fallujah's bridge over the Euphrates River.

As a teen, Kutcher worked as a floor sweeper for a General Mills plant, and donated blood for money. Their bodies were then mutilated and burned. He grew up on a farm in rural Iowa. company Blackwater USA were dragged from their vehicle and killed. Kutcher has an older sister, Tausha and a fraternal twin, Michael, who is younger by five minutes. In a highly publicized attack on March 31, 2004, four private military contractors from the U.S. Kutcher was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Larry Kutcher (an employee of General Mills) and Diane (who worked for Procter & Gamble); his ancestry is mostly Irish American, as well as distantly Native American and Bohemian (the origin of his surname). A protest against the killings two days later was also fired upon by US troops resulting in two more deaths.

. Soldiers stationed at the roof of the building opened fire upon the crowd following the discharge of some demonstrators firearms into the air resulting in the deaths of 13 civilians. Christopher Ashton Kutcher (born February 7, 1978) is an American actor. On the evening of April 28, 2003, a crowd of 200 people defied a curfew imposed by the Americans and gathered outside a occupied local secondary school to protest the presence of Coalition forces in the city and demand it's reopening. interview, 2003, CinemasOnline. A Fallujah Protection Force composed of local Iraqis was set up by the U.S.-led occupants to help fight the rising resistance. interview, 1/04, UnderGroundOnline. Army would stay outside of the relatively calm city.

interview, 1/22/04, Filmmonthly. Army entered the town in April 2003, they positioned themselves at the vacated Ba'ath Party headquarters — an action that erased some goodwill, especially when many in the city had been hoping the U.S. interview, 3/05, About.com. When the U.S. interview on "Guess Who", 3/05, BlackFilm. The new mayor of the city — Taha Bidaywi Hamed, selected by local tribal leaders — was staunchly pro-American. Citizens of Al Fallujah had to defend their own homes and property from these looters and criminals in the absence of peace-keeping authorities.

While many prisoners of the Ba'athist regime may have been unjustly imprisoned political opponents, this act freed both political prisoners and criminal prisoners alike. Aggravating this situation was the proximity of Fallujah to the infamous Abu G'raib prison, where Saddam, in one of his last acts, had released all prisoners. The looters targeted former government sites, the 'Dreamland' compound and the nearby military bases, who stripped buildings of anything of value including floor tiles, window frames, and door frames. The damage the city had avoided during the inital invasion, was negated by damage from looters, who took advantage of the collapse of Saddam's regime to help themselves.

The Iraqi military's desertion of the Ba'athist compound and the dissolution of nearby military units dispered a large number of military and para-military personnel into the local Fallujah-area population. Al Fallujah was also the site of a Ba'athist resort facility called 'Dreamland', located only a few kilometers outside the city proper. It had not witnessed any major fighting as Iraqi Army units stationed in the area abandoned their positions, blending themselves into the local population and leaving a lot of unsecured military equipment to the hands of whomever wanted it. led Coalition.

Fallujah was one of the least affected areas of Iraq immediately after the 2003 invasion by the U.S. The fourth bomb hit another market elsewhere in the city, reportedly due to failure of its laser guidance system. At least one struck the bridge while one or two bombs fell short in the river. In the second incident, Coalition forces attacked Fallujah's bridge over the Euphrates River with four laser-guided bombs.

Between 50 and 150 civilians died and many more were injured. The first bombing occurred early in the Gulf War when a British jet intending to bomb the bridge dropped two laser guided bombs on city's crowded main market. Two separate failed bombing attempts on Fallujah's bridge across the Euphrates River hit crowded markets, killing an estimated 200 civilians, enraging city residents. During the Gulf War, Fallujah was one of the cities in Iraq with the most civilian casualties.

A new highway system (a part of Hussein's infrastructure initiatives), however, circumvented Fallujah and gradually caused the city to greatly decline in national importance by the time of the Iraq War. The city was heavily industrialised during the Saddam era with the construction of several large factories, including one closed down by United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) in the 1990s that may have been used to create chemical weapons. Many residents of the primarily Sunni city were employees and supporters of Saddam Hussein's government and many senior Ba'ath Party officials were natives of the city. military as the Sunni Triangle.

Under Saddam Hussein, who ruled Iraq from 1979 to 2003, Fallujah came to be an important area of support for the regime, along with the rest of the region labeled by the U.S. Its position on one of the main roads out of Baghdad made it of central importance. It grew rapidly into a city after Iraqi independence with the influx of oil wealth into the country. In 1947 the town had only about 10,000 inhabitants.

The British sent an army to crush the rebellion, and the ensuing fight took the lives of more than 10,000 Iraqis and 1,000 British soldiers. Leachman was killed just south of the city in a fight with local leader Shaykh Dhari. Gerard Leachman, a renowned explorer and a senior colonial officer, to quell a rebellion in Fallujah. Col.

In the spring of 1920, the British, who had gained control of Iraq after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, sent Lt. Under the Ottoman Empire Fallujah was a little more than a minor stop on one of the country's main roads across the desert west from Baghdad. The city played host for several centuries to one of the most important Jewish academies, the Pumbedita Academy, which from 258 AD to 1038 AD was one of the two most important centers of Jewish learning worldwide. The city's name in Aramaic is Pumbedita.

The origin of the town's name is in some doubt, but one theory is that its Syriac name, Pallugtha, is derived from the word division. The region has been inhabited for many millennia and there is evidence that it was inhabited in Babylonian times. . The war has reportedly damaged 60% of the city's buildings, with 20% totally destroyed including 60 of the city's mosques.

It is one of the most important places to Sunni Islam in the region. Within Iraq, it is known as the "city of mosques" for the more than 200 mosques found in the city and surrounding villages. The current population is unknown but estimated at less than 200,000. The city grew from an unimportant town in 1947 to a pre-war population of about 350,000 inhabitants in 2003.

Fallujah dates from Babylonian times and was host to important Jewish academies for many centuries. Fallujah (Arabic: الفلوجة; sometimes transliterated as Falluja or Fallouja) is a city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, located roughly 69km (43 miles) west of Baghdad on the Euphrates.