Iraqi Police, Witnesses: 10 Civilians Killed in US Raid in Baghdad

[Purveyor]

Source: Voice of America

Iraqi police and witnesses say U.S. forces have killed 10 civilians and wounded several others during a raid on a building in a mostly Sunni neighborhood in southern Baghdad.

Police say an unknown number of people were detained after U.S. helicopters attacked the building during the pre-dawn raid in the Sihha district.

There has been no comment from the U.S. military.

On Thursday, the military said it was investigating the deaths of five women and four children in a village, Babahani, south of Baghdad, where U.S. forces had been conducting ground and air operations. A statement said structures in the area have been used as safe houses for al-Qaida in Iraq.




Read more: http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-09-28-voa15.cfm

[acmavm]

1. Damn, what the hell is going on? What does this say about the

mentality of the people we've got over there with weapons?

I've read and heard all the yak yak yak about 'they're scared, they're under pressure, they're this and they're that' (they're being Americans occupying somebody elses country). But really, killing women and children is becoming, or has become rather, commonplace.

This is bullshit.

[Megahurtz]

2. Yet Congress

won't stop the massacre.:( What does that say about them?

Horrible.

[leftchick]

3. The US Kills indiscriminately in Iraq Daily! LOOK at these poor people

perhaps the fuckers in congress who keep funding this genocide need to see the results of US "terror missions"!!

:grr:



Iraqi women react during a funeral after a U.S. air strike in the Sihha district in Dora southern Baghdad, Iraq, early Friday, Sept. 28, 2007. Iraqi police and witnesses said U.S. troops backed by helicopter gun ships raided an apartment building in a primarily Sunni neighborhood in southern Baghdad on killing at list 10 civilians and wounding 12. The U.S. military said it was checking into the report. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed)

[DrDan]

5. and all the talk of Sunni-on-Sunni fighting and death, Shi'a-on-Shi'a fighting and death,

how much is really Blackwater-on-Sunni and Blackwater-on-Shi'a . . .

I wonder how much is being covered-up, hushed-up, made-up . . .


Goddamnit - this SOB has ruined a whole nation . . . perhaps 2 nations if you count ours as well . . .

[Doctor_J]

4. How long until the UN intervenes on behalf of Iraq? And where would

we be without the internet? In 1940 Germany, probably.