Not My Lai...try Tulle and Gueret...

[Junkdrawer]

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Later that month the German Army began a campaign of repression throughout France. This included a policy of reprisals against civilians living in towns and villages close to the scene of attacks carried out by members of the French Resistance. As one official wrote on 15th April, 1944 that the authorities "wanted to strike fear into the population and change their opinion by showing them that the evils they were suffering were the direct consequence of the existence of the marquis and that they had made the mistake of tolerating them."

On 5th June, 1944, General Dwight D. Eisenhower asked the BBC sent out coded messages to the resistance asking them to carry out acts of resistance during the D-day landings in order to help Allied forces establish a beachhead on the Normandy coast.

This included attacks on the occupied garrisons in the towns of Tulle and Gueret. In revenge for the French attack on the German garrison 120 men were hanged in Tulle on 9th June. Later that day another 67 were murdered in Argenton.

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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FRresistance.htm

Our troops are being attacked by roadside bombs planted by the Iraqi resistance. The fact that US reprisals are so widespread that a cousin of the Iraqi Ambassador was killed in cold blood tells me that our troops are pursuing a policy of reprisal killings.

[Junkdrawer]

1. From The Globe and Mail...

WASHINGTON — Stark evidence is emerging of deliberate reprisal killings of about two dozen civilians, including women and children, by a handful of U.S. Marines last November in what may prove to be the worst atrocity yet by U.S. forces in Iraq.

On the eve of Memorial Day weekend, when Americans honour their armed forces with parades and marching bands, President George W. Bush's administration was girding for a new spate of horrific revelations. Although no charges have yet been laid, the Pentagon is in damage-control mode and the top Marine general has flown to Iraq to steady his charges.

In closed sessions, senior military officers have been briefing key lawmakers about the two-month-old investigation, which is nearing completion. As many as a dozen Marines could face charges to include murder, dereliction of duty and making false reports for trying to cover up what happened.

It is alleged that a small squad of Marines killed at least three separate groups of people in cold blood — five men in a taxi and two larger groups, including women and children, in two houses in the city of Haditha. It appears to have been a deliberate set of reprisal killings after a Marine was killed by insurgents, according to reports pieced together from those who have attended the briefings.

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060526.wxiraq27/BNStory/International/

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. One thing is certain, if they weren't sent there, these incidents

would not have happened. The buck stops at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

[Junkdrawer]

3. I don't think the German soldiers in France improvised...

I don't think the Marines in Haditha improvised either.

[TheDebbieDee]

4. Oh, so that's why there have been so many daily

reports of dozens of bound civilians found shot in the head throughout Iraq.

[Junkdrawer]

5. Guerrilla Warfare 101...

The Resistance kills soldiers like sitting ducks.

The Occupiers round up innocents and kill them in revenge.

The population gives more support to the Resistance.

More soldiers killed.

More reprisal killings.

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[Redstone]

6. And again and again and again.

Redstone

[Junkdrawer]

7. It's a tricky PR game...

In Iraq, they have to make it clear that attacks on soldiers will be met with reprisals.

At home in the US, they have to deny that they engage in reprisal killings.

But then, I've seen Bush declare Code Orange in NYC, and then send his wife and kids to NYC to prove there's no danger.

[DemoTex]

8. Tulle and Gueret are lessons well taken in the context of Haditha.

So is My Lai-4.

[Junkdrawer]

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