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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Gnostic Archon" |
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27 Mar 2006 12:28:49 PM |
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Iraqis Killed by US Troops "on Rampage" |
Iraqis Killed by US Troops "on Rampage"---
Claims of atrocities by soldiers mount.
The villagers of Abu Sifa near the Iraqi town of Balad had become used
to the sound of explosions at night as American forces searched the area for
suspected insurgents. But one night two weeks ago Issa Harat Khalaf heard a
different sound that chilled him to the bone.
Khalaf, a 33-year-old security officer guarding oil pipelines, saw a US
helicopter land near his home. American soldiers stormed out of the Chinook
and advanced on a house owned by Khalaf's brother Fayez, firing as they
went.
Khalaf ran from his own house and hid in a nearby grove of trees. He saw
the soldiers enter his brother's home and then heard the sound of women and
children screaming.
"Then there was a lot of machinegun fire," he said last week. After that
there was the most frightening sound of all - silence, followed by
explosions as the soldiers left the house.
Once the troops were gone, Khalaf and his fellow villagers began a
frantic search through the ruins of his brother's home. Abu Sifa was about
to join a lengthening list of Iraqi communities claiming to have suffered
from American atrocities.
According to Iraqi police, 11 bodies were pulled from the wreckage of
the house, among them four women and five children aged between six months
and five years. An official police report obtained by a US reporter for
Knight Ridder newspapers said: "The American forces gathered the family
members in one room and executed 11 people."
The Abu Sifa deaths on March 15 were first reported last weekend on the
day that Time magazine published the results of a 10-week investigation into
an incident last November when US marines killed 15 civilians in their homes
in the western Iraqi town of Haditha.
The two incidents are being investigated by US authorities, but
persistent eyewitness accounts of rampaging attacks by American troops are
fuelling human rights activists' concerns that Pentagon commanders are
failing to curb military excesses in Iraq.
The Pentagon claims to have investigated at least 600 cases of alleged
abuse by American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to have disciplined
or punished 230 soldiers for improper behaviour.
More:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032706K.shtml
Looks like the "War" is over.
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| User: "Sanders Kaufman" |
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| Title: Re: Iraqis Killed by US Troops "on Rampage" |
27 Mar 2006 12:46:39 PM |
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"Gnostic Archon" <xzzazzz@no.mo.bush.net> wrote in message
news:e09asg$fv5f$1@news3.infoave.net...
Khalaf ran from his own house and hid in a nearby grove of trees. He
saw the soldiers enter his brother's home and then heard the sound of
women and children screaming.
"Then there was a lot of machinegun fire," he said last week. After
that there was the most frightening sound of all - silence, followed by
explosions as the soldiers left the house.
Now that he has so little left to live for, he'll likely just go find
something worth dying for.
I wonder what civillian jobs those time bombs will hold when they come back
stateside.
--
If 9/11 taught us nothing else, it taught us that religious fanatics are our
mortal enemies.
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| User: "Ian MacLure" |
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| Title: Re: Iraqis Killed by US Troops "on Rampage" |
27 Mar 2006 08:16:46 PM |
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"Sanders Kaufman" <bucky@kaufman.net> wrote in
news:jqWVf.42933$_S7.97@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com:
[snip]
Now that he has so little left to live for, he'll likely just go find
something worth dying for.
I wonder what civillian jobs those time bombs will hold when they come
back stateside.
With any luck they'll wind up delivering your mail and you'll
be your own wretched self just once too often.
IBM
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