U.S. soldiers plant weapons on fake rebels

[norml]

U.S. soldiers plant weapons on fake rebels
6/26/2005 9:10:00 AM GMT


A U.S. citizen working in Iraq sent several photographs he obtained from a soldier in Iraq to writer Mark Kraft. Apparently, they had been passed along between several sources before reaching their intended target.

The pictures were particularly controversial and newsworthy, in that they appear to show U.S. soldiers planting weapons on Iraqi teenagers. They were passed on to Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker, who mentioned them in an interview on May 11, 2005.

"After I did Abu Ghraib, I got a bunch of digital pictures emailed me, and -- was a lot of work on it, and I decided, well, we can talk about it later…You have some general rules, but in this case, a bunch of kids were going along in three vehicles. One of them got blown up. The other two units -- soldiers ran out, saw some people running, opened up fire. It was a bunch of boys playing soccer. And in the digital videos you see everybody standing around, they pull the bodies together. This is last summer. They pull the bodies together. You see the body parts, the legs and boots of the Americans pulling bodies together. Young kids, I don't know how old, 13, 15, I guess. And then you see soldiers dropping R.P.G.'s, which are rocket-launched grenades around them. And then they're called in as an "insurgent kill"."

Hersh had no plans to go forward with the story at the time, citing the inconclusive nature of what happened, and the risk it could have to his sources. Kraft however believed there is an overwhelming public interest that they be released. It should be up to the media and the general public to determine for themselves what occurred that day.



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[Massacure]

1. Vietnam all over again.

[bullimiami]

2. they scream all day 'support the troops support the troops'

but when some demented freaks in us uniforms do this sort of crap they never prosecute them.

for me these bad apples spoil the whole bunch and the rot starts at the top.

[kansasblue]

3. I'm not sure if these are the same pics, but I saw some with

young boys with and without weapons. The site had a picture of the boys/young men without weapons and then one with. But I just thought that if you just turn the pictures areound and you have a young man with a weapon and then the weapons are removed and another picture is taken. I'm not saying that set ups don't happen I just think that with out further proof these pics don't tell us much.