Five Iraqi civilians killed in Ramadi clashes (by US soldiers?)

[leftchick]

http://www.deepikaglobal.com/latestnews.asp?ncode=24157

RAMADI, Iraq, Jan 5 (Reuters) Five Iraqi civilians were killed and two wounded when they got caught up in clashes that erupted between insurgents and US troops in the restive city of Ramadi on Wednesday, witnesses and medical sources said.

They said a gunbattle broke out after rebels detonated a roadside bomb near a US military convoy in the city some 110 km west of Baghdad, and opened fire on the troops.

Reuters Television footage showed two civilian cars riddled with bullets, their windscreens shattered and blood staining the seats and doors.

Crowds of men could be seen lifting the corpses of two veiled women from one car. A dead man covered in a blanket, his head in a pool of blood, lay in the garden of a nearby house.

''A multinational forces convoy in the vicinity of Ramadi was attacked this morning,'' a US military spokesman in Baghdad said. He had no more details on the incident or casualties.



An Iraqi boy reacts after seeing his sister and both of his parents killed in the car, in Ramadi, 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of Baghdad, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2005. Four Iraqi civilians were killed and two others were injured when U.S. soldiers opened fire after their convoy was attacked by rocket-propelled grenades in central Ramadi. The U.S. military had no immediate information about the incident. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

[Igel]

1. We'll never know, will we?

Bullets are neither Muslim nor Crusader, and do you think that civilians nearby are gonna say the "freedom fighter" that lives down the street and his buddies killed the people?

[leftchick]

3. The US Military has a record of this....

spraying bullets at anything after they are attacked.

[jmcgowanjm]

2. If you believe Mafkarat alIslam you'll know

Yesterday's report mentioned a fight breaking out
when USTroop insisted on unveiling a woman.

Here's the SOP-
USConvoy attacked, Humvees/Bradley's destroyed,
Bodies everywhere.

USTroops frustrated, open fire on anyone they see.

Frightened troops lacking both certainty about their mission
and a strong conviction about what they are doing often end
up committing war crimes, such as killing prisoners or
injured people. They see in these crimes an opportunity to
get even with their enemy. Racism combines with fear to
make this killing possible. It then becomes important to
win acceptance among other soldiers to justify the crimes.
The poor training and poor education of these soldiers
also stands in the way of reason and critical thinking. They
learn to copy existing models of behavior, without a code
of ethics or outside authority to prevent violations of rules
of warfare. Even those soldiers who are not convinced that it
is okay to commit war crimes find it hard to
resist.

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