US troops accused of new murders in Iraq

[Rose Siding]

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In the latest in a string of allegations against US forces, Juburi said 29 Iraqis were killed in May in separate incidents in the towns of Latifiyah and Yusifiyah, south of Baghdad, and in the capital itself.

"On May 13, US forces launched an air assault on a civilian car in Latifiyah and killed six people," Juburi told reporters.

"On the same day US aircraft attacked the house of a civilian, Saadun Mohsen Hassan, and killed seven members of his family," he added.

Juburi said US forces carried out another air strike the next day on the house of Sheikh Yassin Saleh Shallal in Yusifiyah, "killing 13 people -- including women and children."

Three other Iraqis were killed in US raids in Baghdad, he said.
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Maliki also suggested a South African-style truth and reconciliation committee to reintegrate former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party into society as part of a broad new strategy to reestablish security.
Thousands of Baathists lost their jobs in the wake of the 2003 US invasion after a de-Baathification committee was set up, provoking resentment from Sunni Arabs in particular who felt they were being unfairly targeted.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060606/pl_afp/iraq

[AnOhioan]

1. What in the hell are we doing to that country???

Why in the hell are the bastards responsible still in charge??

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. They have all the guns, and the "right" to use them any way they

see fit.

[Rex]

3. No difference in massacring with bullet or bomb.

Just the delivery system for murder is different.

[uppityperson]

4. "broad new strategy", make it like it was? Reinstate Saddam's people?

well