On the busiest shopping day of the year, the day after Thanksgiving, Bay Area Iraq Veterans Against the War occupied the shopping district of downtown San Francisco.

Operation First Casualty (OFC) was about bringing TRUTH - the first casualty of war - to the people. Volunteers pretended to be Iraq citizens suffering under the occupation of U.S. Forces.

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