Despite 'End' Of Combat, U.S. Assists In Iraqi Raid

[Francesca9]

Source: NPR

Earlier this week, American and Iraqi forces raided this village, killing seven people, including a young boy. The incident has stoked sectarian tensions and raised questions about just how Iraqi and American forces conduct their operations — especially since President Obama announced that combat operations in Iraq are over.

A boy pours guests small cups of Arabic coffee inside the funeral tent. Then Mahmoud Hassan, 43, walks reporters toward a house and shows them where he was sleeping when the raid began.

"I was covered with a blanket, and they shot me. They thought that I was dead," Hassan says. "Then immediately they got inside this room ... and started shooting. And I was there, watching them."

Hassan points to a smear of blood on the wall and an even thicker pool of blood on the floor. This is where he says his 70-year-old brother and three nephews were killed.

"There was one small kid, he was in the fifth ," Hassan continues. "They shot his father in front of him. Then they shot him dead also."

Hassan says both Iraqi and American soldiers did the shooting.

"Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!" shouts the otherwise reserved Hassan, when asked if he's sure that Americans took part. "The Americans were all over this house."

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It is not over until it is over

[indepat]

1. Killing us and them softly with our semantics

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[obxhead]

2. This will continue for decades as well I imagine.

The only way to end it is to get out of Iraq. All the way out.

[Jumping John]

3. It seems that the Iraq war and the war against terrorists are not the same. Obama said,

"Going forward, a transitional force of U.S. troops will remain in Iraq with a different mission: advising and assisting Iraq’s Security Forces; supporting Iraqi troops in targeted counter-terrorism missions; and protecting our civilians."

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So yea, all those killed were obviously terrorists.

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[YankeeLeft7x]

4. End in Iraq? lol

The U.S. wants to give an illusion it no longer takes direct military action in Iraq but that is an outright lie!!!!