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babsbunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-11 05:43 PM
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WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head, U.N. says
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/31/122789/wikileaks-iraqi-children-in-us.html

By Matthew Schofield | McClatchy Newspapers

A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence, during a controversial 2006 incident in the central Iraqi town of Ishaqi.

The unclassified cable, which was posted on WikiLeaks' website last week, contained questions from a United Nations investigator about the incident, which had angered local Iraqi officials, who demanded some kind of action from their government. U.S. officials denied at the time that anything inappropriate had occurred.

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/31/122789/wikileaks-iraqi-children-in-us.html#ixzz1WkA2qalZ
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babsbunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-11 05:46 PM
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1. I know this is a dupe, and I am sorry
But it seems everyday I amm saying, outloud, I am ashamed to live in this Country. Wish I could go far away.
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