American soldiers accidently kill four people (Near Baghdad)

[melnjones]

Sorry, it's Portuguese, I'll go look for an English link and post it.

http://br.news.yahoo.com/050109/6/qns3.html
Soldados americanos matam quatro pessoas por engano

Agência JB


BAGDÁ - Soldados americanos mataram quatro pessoas - dois policiais e dois civis iraquianos - por engano, depois de um ataque contra um comboio. O incidente ocorreu ontem, no Sul de Bagdá. No mesmo dia, a força aérea americana bombardeou, também por engano, um edifício na cidade de Mosul, e matou 14 pessoas.

On edit...
It talks about it in this link...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=5&u=/ap/20050109/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq - American troops opened fire after their convoy was struck by a roadside bomb at a checkpoint south of Baghdad, killing at least two policemen and three civilians, police said Sunday, a day after the U.S. military acknowledged five people were killed when it bombed the wrong house during a search operation in northern Iraq.

[sam sarrha]

1. they got a family of 12 ......7 were children this morning....

[mikehiggins]

2. As opposed to all those Iraqis who were just asking for it, right?

What's the body count now, Dubya?

[malaise]

3. Check this out

http://www.counterpunch.org/ramakrishnan01072005.html

Over on the internet there is much hand-wringing over what might have been done to prevent deaths in the 2 hour window of warning. We need not feel so badly. What, after all, did it avail us to be given even a whole year-and-a-half of warning? If Vietnam was the televised war, Iraq surely was the advertised one. Not one country broke off relations with the aggressors.

Nor are 'official' wars the only disasters known in advance. Writing in the New York Times this week, Nicholas Kristof estimated that around 165000 people die per month from malaria, 240000 from AIDS, and 140000 from diarrhea. That's per month, in case you missed it. And that's not counting genocides like Rwanda and Darfur.

While the outpouring of concern and coin is wonderful, let us not forget the man-made tragedies, many conceived, planned and executed with meticulous care, some even with the best intentions, all of which may not pack the visual wallop of a single monster wave towering over a row of palm trees as panic-stricken Western tourists scram, but that totally dwarf the Tsunami in the damage they cause.

[leesa]

4. Oh Jeez! Another "accident"...unlike the 100,000 Iraqi "accidental" deaths

Ooops. Oops. You'd think the military would tire of their ceaseless "accidents"