Women and children killed in US raid: Iraq

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/October/focusoniraq_October32.xml§ion=focusoniraq&col=

5 October 2007

BAGHDAD - At least 17 Iraqis including women and children were killed in a US air raid near the city of Baquba on Friday, Iraqi officials and witnesses said.

‘Seventeen people were killed, 27 were wounded and eight are missing including women and children,’ a defence ministry official told AFP.

US helicopters attacked the village of Al Jaysani, near the mainly Shia town of Al Khalis, around 2 am (2300 GMT), destroying at least four houses and killing up to 25 people, witnesses said.

The US military said earlier that its forces killed 25 suspected insurgents during an operation near Baquba targeting an Iranian-linked commander believed to be smuggling weapons across the border from Iran.

[leftchick]

1. now stop that! She looks like al-qaida to me!

:sarcasm:



An Iraqi man stands near his wounded wife at a hospital in Baghdad after being wounded in Baquba. US operations near Baquba have killed at least 25 people the American military said were "criminals", but Iraqi officials said women and children were among the dead.(AFP/Ali Yussef)

where the hell is the 'Iraqi government' on this continued slaughter?

[tkmorris]

2. Don, this'll drop like a stone I expect

It's easy to be outraged the first time, or even the fifth time, but this is like the 1,507th time we've seen a story like this. It's crazy, and wrong, and barbaric, and so many other things. And old hat too. I just don't know how to respond anymore.

:cry:

[unhappycamper]

3. A little more on this story:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=259x4931

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. AIR RAIDS? after 5 YRS of occupation?

I thought the surge was a complete and utter success.

[Benhurst]

6. Move on. Nothing to see here. We have to kill them to give them their freedom.

[Ian David]

5. They weren't killed. They were "Posthumously Liberated," according to the bush NewsSpeak. n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. Thanks, Ms. Perino. Can you give me that little shake of your vacuous,

empty, blond head, please? Yes, that one.


now we know where all the universe's dark matter is created.