That quote from the Times is precisely the sort of thing I'm talking about. They're lying through their teeth, and it's easy enough to prove that just by looking at the area in Google Maps using their satellite mode. I mean, really, you can provide articles like that one all day long, but that doesn't alter the facts, which are that there are no densely populated areas in Marja, and we can see that quite plainly just by looking at the satellite images of the area. There is no "city" of Marja".

The Times is either counting on people not knowing how to use Google Maps, or they're counting on people being too stupid to be capable of critical thought.