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Human rights groups have documented scores of cases in which civilians have been shot and killed after approaching US military roadblocks too quickly, or not following instructions to keep away from US military convoys as they pass.
As in "this should not even be posted on ATS" I meant from my perspective.
It's obvious that you got the story from elseware and did not conjure it up. The thing is that we are not getting the full truth as you say and I don't have a problem with you relaying information.
The problem is that no one relays information for the good of our troops. It's always things such as this. I just find it ridiculous that this makes news yet blowing up thousands of women and children from your own people is not. I know you did not write the story as I said and is it ATSNN worthy as far as the rules go.
The problem is that no one relays information for the good of our troops. It's always things such as this. I just find it ridiculous that this makes news yet blowing up thousands of women and children from your own people is not.
Residents of Nasaf, a town just outside Ramadi, west of Baghdad, said a roadside bomb exploded next to a U.S. armoured patrol as it passed near the Ibn al-Jawzi mosque shortly after prayers on Friday.
Following the explosion, U.S. troops opened fire, the residents said, shooting towards those emerging from the mosque
15 Iraqis including 8 children are dead after US forces opened fire on people exiting a mosque in Nasaf
An attack on a US military patrol followed by heavy US gunfire has left 15 Iraqis, including eight children, dead and 17 wounded in a town west of Baghdad, residents said on Saturday. Following the explosion, US troops opened fire towards those emerging from the mosque, the residents said. But the US military said its troops had not been involved in any firing in the area.
"US forces were not involved in any shooting incident in eastern Ramadi or anywhere near a mosque," Captain Jeffrey Pool, a spokesman for the Marines in Ramadi, said in an e-mail reply to written questions.
Iraqi Children Paying High Price for Freedom: Thousands are Dying, Thousands are Dead!
Killing one person is murder, but killing 50-100,000 has become accepted US foreign policy.
“We don’t do body counts” General Tommy Franks, US Central Command www.iraqbodycount.net...
Obviously, every day I pray there is less casualty, but I know what we are doing in Iraq is right.
-- George. W. Bush Fort Hood, Texas, Apr. 11, 2004
100,000 Civilian Deaths Estimated in Iraq
"Most individuals reportedly killed by coalition forces were women and children. The risk of death from violence in the period after the invasion was 58 times higher (95% CI 8·1-419) than in the period before the war.
If this incident did occur it serves to highlight the problems with this war. To open fire on children is despicable. As time goes on more will be uncovered on this story and hopefully the truth surrounding the incident will be published.
15 Iraqis including 8 children are dead after US forces opened fire on people exiting a mosque in Nasaf
Originally posted by I See You
I want to add that my best friend is in Iraq fighting this bullcrap war and calls me weekley. On one particular occasion he called me midweek.
What he was upset about was that he had to shoot a woman and her child because the scumbag with the RPG was using them as a sheild and was about to fire at his comrades and himself.
Originally posted by Bikereddie
You said...
15 Iraqis including 8 children are dead after US forces opened fire on people exiting a mosque in Nasaf
Wrong.. the US has denied this. The link you gave supports this.
Maybe, just maybe, you got it wrong? No offense intended here, but the link does go against what you initially posted.
15 Iraqis including 8 children are dead after US forces opened fire on people exiting a mosque in Nasaf, a town west of Baghdad near Ramadi according to a doctor treating the wounded
Originally posted by Bikereddie
Wrong.. the US has denied this. The link you gave supports this.
Maybe, just maybe, you got it wrong? No offense intended here, but the link does go against what you initially posted.
Originally posted by Souljah
Bottom line is that the Military MUST always have a "Clean Record" - espeically in this War in Iraq today, where every move is Recorder and Watched. Ofcourse they say "They did not do it" - anything else would be a complete Surprise.