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U.S. forces accused of killing 17 Iraqi civilians
Bangladesh News.Net
Friday 8th December, 2006
Iraqi and U.S. officials are giving differing accounts of an overnight raid north of Baghdad that killed up to 20 people.
The U.S. military says coalition forces killed 20 suspected terrorists, including two women, during a ground and air operation in the Thar Thar area.
But a local official, the mayor of Ishaqi, says the raid killed at least 17 civilians, mainly women and children. He says two homes were leveled in the operation.
A U.S. military statement said ground forces called in air support when they came under heavy gunfire, and that a cache of weapons was confiscated during the raid.
In southern Iraq, British and Danish troops detained five suspected militia leaders in raids on the outskirts of Basra.
They said they confiscated a large cache of arms, including rockets, rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles.
The U.S. military also said three American soldiers died in two separate roadside bombings in Baghdad Thursday.
Meanwhile, a senior U.S. commander in Iraq says most American combat troops could be withdrawn by 2008 - if Iraqis move toward national reconciliation.
Lieutenant General Peter Chiarelli told reporters at the Pentagon through a video link from Iraq that the U.S.-led coalition is winning militarily.
However, he acknowledged that progress has not been fast enough toward meeting strategic objectives.
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Anonymous
12-09-06, 03:17 AM |
U.S. forces accused of killing 17 Iraqi civilians
War is war the fact is American troops have not killed enough and have been to lax on their campaign. The Arabs have learned put your civilians in harms way then scream about it when they get killed and the west will roll over and play nice. How did Saddam keep the peace?
http://www.cpa-iraq.org/pressreleases/20040224_mass_graves.html
http://www.shianews.com/hi/articles/politics/0000374.php
The above seems to be the only way to keep these nuts at peace. So....You want peace then do the following.
They should have laid waste to sadar city salted the earth in and around this hell hole and hung moqtar al sadr from a light pole.
The entire Sunni triangle should have been clamped down nothing in or out and all weapons seized and destroyed.
Any building used as a weapons cache is leveled.
Any building used as cover to fire upon our troops is reduced to a smoking crater.
Iran has fomented way to much violence, armed, supported, financed and fueled the current esculation in terrorism and should be put in check with no delay. Next put troops on the border of Iran and syria with orders to shoot first ask questions later and both countries told they no longer are allowed to pretend like they have nothing to do with the escalating violence..
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Anonymous
12-09-06, 05:02 AM |
Why only bad news?
So 17 deads,including “innocent"women,children;but how many fighters were killed?
How do you know those women children did not fire at US soldiers?
War is not pretty and it produces corpses,that is a fact.
It is time that the media starts to change its habit and report good news,good progress,good achievements instead of just reporting bad news ONLY.
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