Children killed as U.S. battles Iraqi rebels (Falluja prior)

[dutchdemocrat]

I read everywhere over the last few days that the killers of the Great Satan's mercenaries will be brought to justice.

What on earth did the Great Satan do to deserve such macabre killings?

Not a single US paper reported that civilians have been killed on a rather regular basis in Falluja. Nor did they link the action with what happened only a couple of days before.

Children killed as U.S. battles Iraqi rebels

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Eight civilians have been killed, including three children, and 25 have been wounded as U.S. forces fought running battles with insurgents in the Iraqi town of Falluja, a hospital official says.

Issam Mohammed, a doctor at the main Falluja hospital, said the wounded also included women and old people.

Reuters television footage showed some of the casualties being treated at hospital. A boy wounded in the head screamed in pain as doctors bandaged him.

Several explosions, apparently from mortar bombs fired by guerrillas, echoed through the streets, which were deserted apart from ambulances and U.S. military vehicles.

A mosque loudspeaker broadcast the call to Friday prayers, but residents had to stay huddled in their homes.

They said U.S. troops had come under attack when they entered the town's Hay al-Askari neighbourhood. They sealed off the area and conducted house-to-house searches. Soldiers carried out a similar operation in the Hay al-Shuhada district.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040326/325/epknb.html

Next Day

BAGHDAD - Nine civilians, including three children and a cameraman working for a foreign television network, were killed in central Iraq on Friday during clashes between the U.S. forces and Iraqi insurgents, Reuters news agency reported.

The clashes occurred in the central Iraqi city of Fallujah, injuring a total of 25 people, the report said. The city is known for its strong opposition to the U.S.-led occupation.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4671899

Quote Of The Week

So the biggest laugh is the comment in the New York Post.

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...Nor should anyone draw the wrong conclusions from yesterday's TV footage.

The fact that a small crowd of thuggish Sunni tribesmen cheered while their blood-maddened brethren hacked up charred corpses for grateful Western cameramen doesn't mean that Americans are widely despised in Iraq.

http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/17910.htm

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Grateful cameraman shot in the head?

[bif]

1. Hey, where are the flowers they're supposed to be throwing at us?

Didn't they get the memo?

[gottaB]

2. Please read the HRW Report and see their recommendations

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/iraqfalluja

Nothing there about needing more vengence and overwhelming response, but maybe worth reading anyway.

[mhr]

3. Four Children - Four Mercenaries - An Eye For An Eye ......

Is this not the same rhetoric we heard from the fundies and Neanderthals in this country after 9/11?

[Aidoneus]

4. tip of the iceberg

I posted information about a couple more events like that in the thread I started yesterday.

The city has faced the brunt of US aggressions since the beginning. Every week brings new atrocities carried out by the invaders and naturally the people there feel there is much to account for. Every week there were more random and non-random bystanders shot by the invaders, people kidnapped, mosques raided with their imans harassed and seized. Last week a hospital and several houses were fired on by the occupation forces in addition to more people shot. An Iraqi TV reporter for ABC was shot because he filmed something the occupyers didn't want him to.

The city of al-Fallujah is considered by the various resistance movements to be a 'liberated' city. A few days ago they issued a warning to the invaders not to enter it again--the response received by the mercenaries is an example of the fist backing up that warning.