Amerikaans Terrorisme 6

Volgens getuigen is dit het resultaat van Amerika's zogeheten 'war on terror,' die het Nederlands parlement steunt door het sturen van troepen naar het Midden Oosten. Information Clearing House bericht: 'Killing Women and Children: The “My Lai Phase” Of The Iraq War. By Mike Whitney 03/20/06 "ICH" -- -- What goes through George Bush’s mind when he sees the dead bodies of Iraqi women and children loaded on the back of a pickup truck like garbage? Is there ever a flicker of remorse; a split-second when he fully grasps the magnitude of the horror he has created? March 15 was another defining moment in America’s downward moral-spiral in Iraq. Eleven members of an Iraqi family were killed in a wanton act of slaughter executed by American occupiers. Photos taken at the scene show the lifeless bodies of young children, barely old enough to walk, lying motionless in the back of a flatbed truck while their fathers moan inconsolably at their side. What parent can look at these photographs and not be consumed with rage? The US military openly admits it attacked the house in Ishaqi where the incident took place. Reuters reports that, “Major Ali Ahmed of the Ishaqi police said US forces landed on the roof of the house in the early hours and shot the 11 occupants, including five children.” “After they left the house they blew it up”, he said. “The bodies, their hands bound, had been dumped in one room before the house was destroyed,” (policeman) Hussein said. Police had found spent American issue cartridges in the rubble.” (Reuters) The autopsy report at the Tikrit hospital said, “All the victims had gunshot wounds to the head”. Iraqi policeman Farouq Hussein noted, “It is a clear and perfect crime without any doubt”. The evidence provided by Reuters suggests that we have entered the “My Lai phase” of the Iraq war, where the pretensions about democracy and liberation are stripped-away and replaced with the gratuitous butchery of women and children. The carnage in Ishaqi illustrates the growing recklessness and desperation of Washington’s failed crusade. Military spokesman Major Tim O’ Keefe justified the attack saying they were searching for “a foreign fighter facilitator” for Al Qaida in Iraq. He added, “Troops were engaged by enemy fire as they approached the building. Coalition Forces returned fire utilizing both air and ground assets….Two women and one child were killed. The building was destroyed.” In fact, 11 women and children were killed and there’s no evidence to verify that the house was being used as an Al Qaida safe-house. The US military made similar claims after bombing raids in January and December when a total of 17 family members were killed. The grim fact is that is that the lives of Iraqi women and children are of no real consequence to US officials. As General Tommy Franks boasted, “We don’t do body counts”. The victims of American aggression are simply dismissed as collateral damage undeserving of any further acknowledgement.' Zie: http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12404.htm Nu deze oorlogsmisdaden niet meer in de doofpot kunnen worden gehouden is het Amerikaanse leger gedwongen de zaak te onderzoeken. De BBC World Service bericht: 'US military probes Iraq killings
US military investigators have flown to Iraq to study reports that marines shot dead at least 15 civilians, including seven women and three children. The incident is said to have happened in Haditha on 19 November 2005. The military's initial claim that the civilians died in a roadside blast was disproved by an earlier investigation. Investigators will now ask if the civilians died in crossfire or were targeted in a vengeful killing spree, prompted by the death of a marine.
Iraqis often accuse US troops fighting insurgents of committing war crimes. Local residents in Haditha say the marines went on the rampage after one of their number was killed in a roadside blast and another two were injured. They say the soldiers began shooting dead passers-by and the inhabitants of nearby homes.' Lees verder: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4827424.stm Zie ook de Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1735748,00.html