U.S. says bomb hit wrong house in Iraq

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/05/iraq.target/index.html

A bomb that killed six civilians Monday near Baiji, Iraq, missed its target by 65 feet (20 meters) and hit the wrong home, military officials said.

The bomb, which was dropped by a U.S. fighter plane, was aimed at a building that three men entered after planting a roadside bomb as an unmanned surveillance plane watched from overhead, the officials said.

A U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcat fighter jet strafed the building before the bomb was dropped, according to a U.S. military statement released after the nighttime attack.

The bomb had "successful effects against the insurgents," the statement added.

The strike flattened a family's home, killing six of the family members and wounding three others, said a spokesman for the Salaheddin provincial governor's office. A father and daughter survived with only minor injuries, he said.


An Iraqi man weeps Tuesday next to the bodies of victims of a U.S. airstrike in Baiji, Iraq.

[bballny]

1. oops sorry my wrong n/t

[saigon68]

21. Pace" It's time to kill the (insert racial epithet) Heads".

He's single handedly winning the war---ONE CORPSE OF A CHILD AT A TIME.

[MsKandice01]

2. The bomb had "successful effects against the insurgents,"

HUH???? How?? What are they talking about??

[leftchick]

10. they are fucking liars

trying to justify US Terrorist acts against innocent civilians.

[mom cat]

14. They are saying that terror works! The US is intentionally using

terrorists techniques from stepped-up bombing to death squads to terrorize the Iraqi public.
The sick comment about "successful effects against the insurgents" is just a reflection of how morally revolting our own reign of terror has become.

[Turbineguy]

17. I guess that means

if the bomb had hit the right building those civilians still would have died.

[lyonn]

23. Exactly, article didn't make sense. n/t

[Briar]

32. Terror

that's what bombing of civilian targets is all about.

[DS1]

3. So, if it killed the insurgents after hitting the wrong house, wouldn't

it have killed the family if it had hit the RIGHT house?

Pathetic. Stop dropping bombs on villages you fucking asshole chickenshit fighter jocks

[tatertop]

12. good point

[IA_Seth]

35. my first thought too! n/t

[NanceGreggs]

4. "... successful effects against the insurgents ..."

So what's the BIG DEAL? Just chalk up another six deaths to the 30,000 -- more or less, give or take, just an estimate ...

Hearts & Minds in Action ...

[MrMonk]

5. scared them into behaving

:sarcasm:

[NanceGreggs]

8. ... or angered them into hating all Americans.

And they wonder where the up-and-coming terrorists of tomorrow are going to come from ...

[merwin]

6. Yep, it just so happens that the family of 6 were all terrorists too!

[JohnyCanuck]

7. Well you know they don't value life as much as us Christian types,

so just give the dad a camel and a couple of goats in compensation and he'll get right over the death of his wife and kids and be just thankful that he is still free. :sarcasm:

[daleo]

16. i.e. "Punished them by killing their family and neighbors" n/t

[sallyseven]

9. We can't do anything right can we.

[Roland99]

11. Killing innocents is a "successful effect"??????

:mad:

[frylock]

13. well, i'm sure it's the first time that's happened..

probably won't happen again.

[Poll_Blind]

15. LOL, too damned true. n/t

PB

[ckramer]

18. U.S. says bomb hit wrong house in Iraq

A bomb that killed six civilians Monday near Baiji, Iraq, missed its target by 65 feet (20 meters) and hit the wrong home, military officials said.


http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/05/iraq.target/index.html

[rsmith6621]

19. Read This....Very Simular Circumstances...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2023822

[54anickel]

20. So what's Scotty got to say NOW? And I suppose we are to believe

this was the only "wrong target hit" of those 58 bombing runs on Monday? I'll bet the other 57 went without a hitch, those are the ones Scotty was talking about on Tuesday. :sarcasm:

[Xenotime]

22. So much for *'s smart bomb.....

LOOOSER

[sleipnir]

24. That pilot (perhaps two) are now officially war criminals.

Will they be charged?

"Just following orders" is not a valid excuse as we found with the Nazis. This is no different. Not at all.

Two more war criminals to add to the long list of those in Iraq and at home.

It's sickening.

[malaise]

25. I'm sick of these fuckheads

Anyone notice that Baby Noor is off of MSM.

[MsKandice01]

27. Why do you hate America?

Hehe.

[Mz Pip]

26. Ya think!?

So it killed 6, give or take a few. :sarcasm:

Mz Pip
:dem:

[0rganism]

28. Smart Bomb Fails Thesis Dissertation, Kills Innocents in Fit of Rage

"Yeah, we knew the bomb, he was high strung, easy to set off. Never quite got it together, was always blowing up during finals week," said a post-graduate acquaintance who preferred not to be named. "Personally, I blame the Examining Committee. They should have known he had an explosive personality. No one around here was surprised when he went to pieces."

[M155Y_A1CH]

29. Wrong house, wrong country...

Watch em' fumble the nuclear football next.
Just policing up the neighborhood, I suppose. BOOM!

[The_Casual_Observer]

30. This would only be news it the bomb hit the right house - They never

do.

[sabra]

31. ....

:-(

[lumpy]

33. Why didn't they blow up the

roadside bomb instead of taking a chance that innocents might be killed
by their damned 'smart bombs'?

[HuffleClaw]

34. they MISSED but...

"missed its target by 65 feet (20 meters) and hit the wrong home... had successful effects against the insurgents" ????