IRAQ: Women and children killed in US air strikes on Ramadi, doctor says

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/82258ac04fd3320770b549e6eb532c14.htm

BAGHDAD, 18 October (IRIN) - Two days of US air attacks against insurgents in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi have caused heavy casualties among the city's civilian population, a doctor and a senior Iraqi government official in Ramadi said.

"We have received the bodies of 38 people in our hospital and among them were four children and five women," Ahmed al-Kubaissy, a senior doctor at Ramadi hospital, said on Monday night. "The relatives said they had been killed by air attacks in their homes and in the street."

Al-Kubaissy said his hospital had also treated 42 people injured in the air strikes on Ramadi, a stronghold of the Islamist insurgents, 110 km west of Baghdad.

A senior Iraqi government official in the city, said three houses had been totally destroyed in the air attacks on Sunday and Monday and 14 dead civilians had been found inside them. A further 12 civilians had been critically injured in the same air strikes, he added.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Some day that little operation, along with a shit-load of others

will be identified as war crimes done in the name of "kick ass and steal their gas".

[WildClarySage]

2. Oh but those are Freedom Bombs. Fox News said so.

[Jacobin]

3. And Judy thinks its cute to be called

"Judy Run Amok"

This country is so far off the path that it is frightening.

[Sparkman]

4. Colateral damage....what's your problem, you wimp. Do you support.....

just kidding! But the war-mongering and profiteering chicken-shit-hawks are just waiting for anyone to cry foul, and report the deaths of innocent men, women and children along with any combatants.
Rest assured, even the Iraq Body Count web site numbers will be found to be WAY under reported BECAUSE THEY ARE ONLY COUNTING WELL DOCUMENTED DEATHS and the U.S. can blame no one else for these deaths and the crippling and the malnutrician and illnesses from God knows what hellish pathagens. THANKS FOR THE REFERANCE NNNOLHI.

[Career Prole]

5. The report of the attack at the humvee amazed me when I heard it.

"The US military statement said at least 20 suspected militants were killed when a US Air Force F-15 jet bombed a group of men suspected of burying a roadside bomb on Sunday, but Reuters quoted an Iraqi police officer in Ramadi as saying that those who died in that incident included children as young as 11."

I thought to myself, "My God, do they actually expect people to believe it takes twenty people to plant a bomb?!"
From the lack of buzz, I guess people did.

You can bury a damned building with a twenty-man crew.

[oregonindy]

6. they were just in the way of freedom.