US air raid kills 14 Iraqi family members-official

[allemand]

Tue Jan 3, 2006 5:46 AM ET

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - A U.S. air strike killed 14 members of one family in the town of Baiji in northern Iraq, an Iraqi security force spokesman said on Tuesday.

The air raid destroyed one house, killing the 14 people inside, said the spokesman for the Joint Coordination Center, which handles information and liaises between U.S. and Iraqi forces.

Another four houses were hit and three people were injured in the raid on Monday night, he said.

"We have this information from the Iraqi police and army in Baiji," the spokesman said.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-01-03T104629Z_01_ROB335262_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-USA-STRIKE.xml

[saigon68]

1. "KILL THOSE(Insert racial epithet here) Heads", shouted the Chimpanzee

"They are unclean ", he continued.

[ClintonTyree]

2. In the "war on terra".........

if you want to make an omelet you're going to have to break a few eggs. A lot of eggs. Many more than you should need for the omelet but they're "collateral" eggs, eggs that just happened to be in the way of chef bush when he's clanking and banging around the war "kitchen".

What was bush's answer as to how many Iraqi civilians have died in his "war on terra"? In a nonchalant, matter of fact way he said. "around 30,000 or so", like he was talking about how much brush he'd cleared on his "ranchette" that day. We all know the number far exceeds that "30,000 or so" but to bush it doesn't matter. No price is too high to pay (as long as it's not he who's paying it) for that rich, black goo beneath the surface if Iraq's soil.

Was it another "smart bomb" that took these people out? :mad:

[leftchick]

3. faux news reporting that 14 INSURGENTS were killed

:puke:

[NI4NI]

4. Faux is Fast!

As of now, Reuters hasn't even reported they were insurgents, only that the securty police force there have no comment.
Trying to cover the Chimps ass again?

[rodeodance]

5. news such as this will be depressed. These air raids have increased

and will lead to nothing but MORE trouble.

[leftchick]

15. IMUS news on MSRNC stared to report it correctly

then INUT cut off the newsreader to talk football! :grr:

[indepat]

19. While US bombing of civilians is no terrorist act , it must be terrifying

nonetheless. P.S. The guys wearing the white hats do not commit terrorist acts when indiscriminately bombing civilians. :sarcasm:

[rodeodance]

6. Cnn website says 6 killed.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. air strikes in Bayji north of Baghdad killed six members of a single family, Wamir abd el-Wahab, a spokesman for the Salah ad-Din provincial governor's office, said Tuesday.

El-Wahab said three other family members were seriously wounded in the attack Monday and the father and a daughter survived relatively unharmed.

The house, the spokesman said, was flattened. "Why are they hitting civilians?" el-Wahab asked.

A spokesman for the U.S. military said air operations had taken place in the area overnight but had no further details. He said the incident was under investigation........

[rodeodance]

7. CNN: Iraqi official: U.S. air strikes kill 6

Iraqi official: U.S. air strikes kill 6

Tuesday, January 3, 2006; Posted: 6:46 a.m. EST (11:46 GMT)

[rodeodance]

8. cnn link

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/

[rodeodance]

9. "Why are they hitting civilians?" el-Wahab asked.

......The house, the spokesman said, was flattened. "Why are they hitting civilians?" el-Wahab asked.

A spokesman for the U.S. military said air operations had taken place in the area overnight but had no further details. He said the incident was under investigation.

In a statement, the military said it conducted 58 air missions over Iraq on Monday, including one strike by U.S. Navy F-14s "in the vicinity of Bayji."

"The F-14s strafed the target with 100 cannon rounds and expended one precision-guided munition with successful effects against insurgents placing an improvised explosive device," the statement said, but it wasn't clear whether that was the attack in question.......

[rodeodance]

10. they are only identified as 'family members' by cnn.

[allemand]

11. Reuters: "conflicting official accounts of the death toll"

There were conflicting official accounts of the death toll.

An Iraqi official in Tikrit at the Joint Coordination Center (JCC), which handles information and liaises between U.S. and Iraqi forces in the province, said 14 died when their house was destroyed in the raid late on Monday.

A police officer in Tikrit later contested that account and put the toll at six with three wounded but the JCC spokesman insisted 14 had been killed. No independent information was immediately available and the U.S. military offered no comment.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-01-03T112903Z_01_ROB335262_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-USA-STRIKE.xml

[0007]

12. Man, do I feel safe, knowing that junior is doing his goddamn job.

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[sabra]

13. So sad... didn't Sy Hersh warn that there would be an increase

in air strikes?

[DemonFighterLives]

14. A million $ in munitions

A dozen civilians dead, 100 insurgents created.
Those are not good stats, but dubby does not care. The population is reduced and the oil secured and there was a sudden uptick in weapons production which is spurring the burgeoning economy.
:argh:

[allemand]

16. BBC: 2 children among the dead

Ghadban Nahd Hassan, 56, told AFP news agency that 14 members of his family had been in the house when it was it bombed.

"I was with some friends in a small shop 100m away from the house when I heard the bombing at around 2130 (1830 GMT)," he said.

"I rushed over to see. My house was destroyed and there was smoke everywhere."

So far, the bodies of a nine-year-old boy, an 11-year-old girl, three women and three men have been found in the rubble.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4577578.stm

[BeHereNow]

37. Those weren't children, they were small insurgents...

according to Faux News.

HOW DO WE STOP WHAT IS BEING
DONE IN OUR NAMES?

HOW?

I'm positively sickened by this story and
even more so by the corporate media spinning
on behalf of the murderous thugs responsible for it.

BHN:cry: :banghead: :mad: :puke:

[leftchick]

17. Yahoo Photos of body recovery. I am feeling free...

aren't you? :cry:



Iraqis search for the bodies of victims of an alleged U.S. airstrike in Beiji, 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday Jan. 3, 2005. Iraqi police said U.S. aircraft bombed a house Monday night and that seven people were killed and four injured. The U.S. military had no immediate comment on the alleged airstrike or deaths, but the U.S. Central Command said in a press release that Navy F-14s in the vicinity of Beiji strafed a target and dropped a precision-guided bomb 'against insurgents placing an improvised explosive device.' (AP Photo/Bassim Daham)



Residents using their hands remove the rubble a collapsed building in the northern city of Baiji, 200 kilometres (140 miles) north of Baghdad. The bodies of eight Iraqis, including two children, were recovered from the rubble of a house in northern Iraq after it was reportedly bombed by US aircraft.(AFP/Dia Hamid)

[leftchick]

18. AFP Link on Yahoo...

rate it up...Eight bodies recovered after US bombs Iraqi house

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060103/wl_mideast_afp/iraqusunrest_060103122818

[allemand]

20. WP: U.S. Air Strike Kills Iraqi Family of 12

Attack Was Directed at Suspected Bombers, U.S. Military Says
By A Washington Post Special Correspondent

Tuesday, January 3, 2006; 11:12 AM

TIKRIT, Iraq, Jan. 3 -- A U.S. air strike that Americans said was directed at suspected bombers killed a family of 12 in their home north of Baghdad Monday night, Iraqi officials said Tuesday. A Washington Post special correspondent watched as rescuers removed the bodies of women and children still in their nightclothes. (...)

In a statement, the U.S. military said an unmanned drone in the area had tracked three men digging in a road about 9 p.m. Monday. Insurgents commonly plant bombs in such craters to catch passing convoys of U.S. and Iraqi officials. (...)

Maj. Abdul Jabbar Kaissi, a security officer with Salahuddin governorate, said the air strike killed the 12-member family of Ghadban Nahi Kaissi, a farmer and relative of the governor of Salahuddin province, Ahmad Mahmud Kaissi. U.S. forces surrounded the area Tuesday morning as bulldozers removed rubble and emergency crews pulled out bodies. The Post special correspondent watched as crews removed the bloody body of an older woman, her head covered in a black scarf, and two younger women in nightclothes with their heads uncovered for sleep.

Rescuers brought out the bodies of three boys on their thin mattresses. They were wrapped in the blankets in which search teams said the boys had been sleeping when the explosives hit. The boys appeared younger than 10.

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/03/AR2006010300524.html?nav=rss_nation/special

[LynnTheDem]

21. "...bodies of women and children still in their nightclothes..."

"...bodies of women and children still in their nightclothes."

And far too many stupid Americans wonder why we're so hated by the world.

[ckramer]

22. And many people kept asking: Why do they hate us?

[raggedcompany]

23. All bombing is terrorism.

Chew on that.

[meganmonkey]

24. Tastes like the truth to me

:(

[leftchick]

25. Two of my favorite stickers....

and...

[Scurrilous]

26. This makes me feel sick.

:kick:

[Eugene]

27. (from BBC) US: a UAV observed them "following the common pattern

of roadside bomb emplacement."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4577578.stm

IOW: If you don't like their looks, blow 'em away and sort them out later.

This should work wonders for winning hearts and minds.

[xchrom]

28. waaaaaay to go bush!

that's how you build a democracy and secure america's interests -- just kill a buch of innocent civilians -- yeah nobody will be endlessly pised about that, will they?

how many now, bush?
how many?

and btw -- where are the weapons of mass destruction?

where is the imminent threat?

[leftchick]

29. kick

:(

[OKNancy]

30. kick

:kick:

[TheBaldyMan]

31. We come in peace, Shoot to kill n/t

[zippy890]

32. Iraq official: US air strike kills family

Tuesday 03 January 2006

A US air attack has killed 14 members of one family in the oil-refining town of Baiji in northern Iraq.

An Iraqi security force spokesman for the Joint Coordination Centre, which handles information and is a liaison between US and Iraqi forces, said that the Tuesday air raid destroyed one house, killing the people inside.

Another four houses were hit and three people were wounded in the raid on Monday night, he said.

"We have this information from the Iraqi police and army in Baiji," said the spokesman, who declined to give his name.

The US military had no immediate comment.

Baiji has seen considerable fighting from forces opposed to the US-led military presence, including efforts by fighters to disrupt oil and fuel flows through its refinery, the biggest in Iraq.

The closure of the refinery last month is causing shortages of fuel across the country.

US forces have used air power increasingly throughout the past year; official military data show that only one strike was carried out in March, and the average in the first quarter was five strikes a month compared with more than 50 in the last quarter.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/ADA709C4-E277-47A5-939D-DDDA2EEF0CAA.htm

Innocent people continue to die in Iraq.
Notice in the article the increasing use of air power by the US to carry out strikes. So as US draws its troops down and back home, air strikes will increase the Iraqi civilian death toll.

edited for spelling

[leftchick]

33. Corporate Media whore AP: U.S. Bombs Suspected Insurgent Hideout

<snip>

The U.S. military did not comment on the deaths. It said only that an unmanned aircraft spotted three men planting a roadside bomb in the city 155 miles north of Baghdad, and that Navy F-14s bombed a nearby building the three had entered.

AP Television News video showed dozens of people gathered Tuesday near the rubble of the building. Men carried several bodies wrapped in carpets from the rubble, chanting, "There is no god but God!"


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060104/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq


What a horrible way to die...



An Iraqi man weeps next to the bodies of victims of an alleged U.S. airstrike in Beiji, 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday Jan. 3, 2006. Iraqi police said U.S. aircraft bombed a house Monday night and that seven people were killed and four injured. The U.S. military had no immediate comment on the alleged airstrike or deaths, but the U.S. Central Command said in a press release that Navy F-14s in the vicinity of Beiji strafed a target and dropped a precision-guided bomb 'against insurgents placing an improvised explosive device.' (AP Photo/Bassim Daham)

[Kagemusha]

34. A nearby building just happening to contain a family.

Well that sucks.

And I don't know if you can say that air power is RAISING civilian casualties. Not like I want to pick on them but, infantry kill a lot of civilians too, "just in case," in this sad war.

[zippy890]

35. just horrible - 14 members of a family

took out a whole family, kids and all.

the 'collateral damage' of a criminal war.

does it matter less because they are Iraqi children? I know Duers don't think so. But the rest of americans, even if they do hear about this, which is unlikely, would they care?

[saigon68]

36. They don't care--They care more about

2 guys living together.