US army admits killing Iraqi civilians

[Aidoneus]

US army admits killing Iraqi civilians
Saturday 06 March 2004

The US occupation army has admitted killing four civilians in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk two days ago.

Major Josslyn Aberle, the spokeswoman for the 4th Infantry Division, on Friday said that the four were killed on Wednesday during clashes between occupation troops and Iraqi resistance fighters.

Those killed were relatives of resistance fighters the US soldiers were seeking to detain, she claimed. The circumstances of the deaths were being investigated, she added.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4A98C6FE-DB69-4F83-8CAE-F709B8E60340.htm

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another version:--

US aggressors blast family of four to death in bedouin tent.

An Iraqi family of four were killed and a fifth was injured on Wednesday in the village of Bayj, located 95km south of Kirkuk when US invaders intentionally blew it apart with gunfire.

The German Press Agency reported that US soldiers today attacked a bedouin tent near the village, opening fire upon it. The US invaders claimed that a person whom they suspect of planting bombs on the Kirkuk-Tikrit highway was inside the tent at the time.

Chief judge and district governor at-Tuz said that the attack left ‘Abd Mahmud al-‘Ubaydi, his wife, and two of their children dead while wounding Yasir al-‘Ubaydi, one of their nephews.

http://www.albasrah.net/moqawama/english/0304/iraqiresistancereport_1-30304.htm

[CTLawGuy]

1. puke

:puke:

[renegade000]

2. if this is true...wth?

destroying an entire structure just to get to one man?

we need trained peacekeepers.

[snoochie]

5. Did the IDF help train these troops?

Do the IDF do this in Palestine? I've heard accounts that say they do, but I would think if it were true it would be more widely known about.

[bemildred]

3. Winning more hearts and minds.

At least they didn't call them terrorists, they got to
be "relatives of resistance fighters".
:puke:

[DuctapeFatwa]

4. That's what they're there to do. That's what a crusade is for