WikiLeaks: Iraqi Children In U.S. Raid Shot In Head, U.N. Says

McClatchy:

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.

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[sergal stew]

08:49 PM on 09/05/2011

Westbro got it right....Thank God for dead...

[Drjimmy72296]

07:50 PM on 09/04/2011

It's a damn shame that the soldiers who did this and the officers who ordered the raid, along with W, Rummy and Cheney couldn't be turned over to the Iraqis to face Islamic justice.

[Markulyseas]

10:57 AM on 09/03/2011

So? Is this news? This is war and war is genocide. There are no good soldiers in war. All are conditioned to murder people with any available weapon. Remember the My Lai massacre and the Hanoi Hilton?

[sergal stew]

08:49 PM on 09/05/2011

I agree, it's annoying when people say "support the troops" No I won't support murderers who aren't fighting for anything other than hegemony

[Markulyseas]

10:57 AM on 09/06/2011

Thank you sergal, we are all citizens of village earth, a speck on the Universal Screen :)

[blindsquirl]

08:29 PM on 09/02/2011

Look what the politicians have done to our young men....

Turned them into NOTHING except paid KILLERS...and EVERY LAST ONE of them want a big hug because "they are fighting (ha ha) and dieing for our freedom"...what a load of HORSE SHITE.

[douglassnow]

01:14 AM on 09/03/2011

You can't "make" baby-killers this bestially depraved--just give them scope to be what they naturally already are. But no doubt these fine young troops of ours WERE under orders. So there are two questions immediately: (1) Who were they? And (2) WHOSE ORDERS were they following?

I have no doubt that that at the end of our investigation we will find particular insane, criminal sadists in the high command of military operations in the Iraq--masturbating over the pictures taken by the soldiers at the scene and carefully collected for them--as we have seen so many instances of in Afghanistan, and as there are so many instances of the Nazis having done--but first things first. Let us identify these soldiers, and shoot them. And let us identify their superiors, and shoot them also. Then let us find the politicians who knowingly authorized such infamous atrocities, and hang them.

[blindsquirl]

04:47 PM on 09/04/2011

douglassnow, Straight-up...you are one of a vanishing breed. Patriot is a complimentary term used by those who have NO understanding of what being a PATRIOT is all about....ONE of those things is respect for the RULE of LAW.
I commend you for still having a sense of JUSTICE in a time when ONLY money, flag-waving and ruthlessness are seen as "patriotic"....
May the Long-time Sun, shine upon you and your family.

[blindsquirl]

08:02 PM on 09/02/2011

So much for the "honor and fighting for our freedom" BS that the military lays on us...soldiers are the toys of the rich boys....soldiers will KILL ANYBODY including you and I for free room and board plus a few shekels from their bosses.
The "leaders" are MORALLY DEFUNCT....soldiers have become executioners and AMORAL on their own.
Next time ya see a soldier, give 'em the FINGER....they have earned it !

[Slickone]

05:56 PM on 09/02/2011

Smells like Vietnam to me. But anyone with any sense at all could have told Dubya that going into Iraq would be very much like Vietnam.

[jrb35]

05:44 PM on 09/02/2011

Even McClatchy disputes the claim that they were shot execution style. Yet everyone hear believes it without a shred of evidence.

"According to the preliminary report, none of the bodies bore only a single gunshot wound, contradicting one Iraqi police officer's account that each of the dead had been shot once in the head.

One body had two gunshot wounds to the head. Five others showed signs of entrance and exit wounds to the head caused by "flying projectiles," which the report noted could be "consistent with either bullets or shrapnel." Four others showed signs of entrance and exit wounds to the chest or abdomen, also attributed to flying projectiles.

The 11th person had "crushing of the head and neck," the cause of which was undetermined.

The portion of the report that Knight Ridder reviewed made no mention of whether the bodies had been handcuffed, as an Iraqi police officer had claimed."

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2006/03/22/122730/multiple-wounds-mark-bodies-of.html#ixzz1WplF5xlT

[blindsquirl]

04:55 PM on 09/04/2011

are you some sort of automaton?? If you hear it from the U.S. Propaganda Machine...it is and must be the ONLY truth....you give intelligence and real Americans a bad name.

[Drjimmy72296]

07:49 PM on 09/04/2011

You're citing a report from five years ago that relied on a Pentagon investigation that's now been discredited.

And from the THIRD paragraph: But it wasn't possible to say from the portion of the report Knight Ridder was allowed to see whether other pages backed Iraqi police's suspicions that U.S. troops executed the 11 or bolstered the U.S. position that they died during a firefight as the Americans attempted to capture an al-Qaida operative.

[Cristian Christianovich]

03:02 PM on 09/02/2011

Does anyone know which war was the last one fought for freedom or against tyranny? Was it WWII? Seems like all these more recent wars are all corporate wars.What was the tipping point? When did greed take complete control?I know there was a significant shift when JFK was assassinated.Was that it?

[Neets101]

04:30 PM on 09/02/2011

Seems like that was the beginning of the end, yes.

[blindsquirl]

08:20 PM on 09/02/2011

Cristian...it has gotten progressively worse since JFK, but even the Viet Nam War was about the Military-Industrial-Complex wanting to hand-out some stock dividends....

The last war which was a fight over tyranny and for freedom, was the U.S. Civil War.
A. Lincoln was elected president as the FIRST "republican" and immediately set about to kill as many Americans as possible....that legacy continues today because the Confederacy lost the war. Republicans (from 1st to last) have done everything they can to negate the U.S. Constitution and "freedoms" which were included in the Bill of Rights.
Keep America Beautiful.....IMPRISON all republicans!

[xdiesp]

10:09 AM on 09/02/2011

As soon as the first Abu Ghraib photo was released, that war was lost.

Get a mouthful of what the world accounts the US Army to be.

[blindsquirl]

05:06 PM on 09/04/2011

Mazar-e Shariff was the 1st glimpse of the "new" American....the CIA got over 500 foreign Taliban fighters to surrender because they were promised free transport back to their homelands, if they laid down their arms and came peacefully.
What they got was a CIA interrogator and a 9mm to the head. When these fighters got wind of what was happening, they tried to ESCAPE and were instead massacred. (some still bound with their hands behind their backs.)

[Aroddo]

07:20 AM on 09/02/2011

how come that this story was #1 yesterday and is now gone from the front page altogether?

[Labrat33]

11:14 PM on 09/01/2011

The irony? The majority of those who supported and still support these wars claim to be "pro-life."

[ThirdWorldAmerika]

02:28 AM on 09/02/2011

They tend to only be perceived as pro-life...unless it involves different races/cultures.

[xdiesp]

10:10 AM on 09/02/2011

Pro american life, that is. Not a big difference.

[Labrat33]

10:51 PM on 09/01/2011

The Reader's Digest (not exactly a liberal magazine) reported some years ago that U.S. soldiers routinely ran over children playing in the streets in Iraq UNDER OFFICIAL ORDERS! For fear that they might be attacked if they slowed or stopped, if they came upon children in the streets whom they couldn't drive around, they would accelerate and mow them down. On returning home, they were not permitted to talk about it. Imagine having to live with that. Many no doubt wind up committing suicide because they know what they did and cannot live with it.

[DebbyM]

11:50 AM on 09/02/2011

God, I feel so sorry for those 'poor' soldiers. Spare me, or hand over your kid to be run down, handcuffed, shot up......Your military and government are morally bankrupt if that is the best you can do. Poor soldiers.

[CarlyQ]

10:45 PM on 09/01/2011

Between 4-15% of the general population are sociopaths. The stereotype about all sociopaths being killers is wrong. Most of these are too squeamish to kill but could do so and sleep like a baby if they felt they had to. But ALL sociopaths cause misery and pain to other people in one form or another.

My point, though, is that it is likely the same statistic at least exists in the military population. In fact, it's probably much higher given the sociopathic need for stimulation, chaos, power, etc. Throw in a dash of sanctioned murder and you've got the the perfect brew for these sorts.

Kids, though. How sad.

[guntotinganglion]

01:59 AM on 09/02/2011

The truly sad thing is, this is not an isolated incident. Life of all ages becomes very cheap in the eyes of those with the power to end lives with impunity. It doesn't help having the US military and the idiotically named "Coalition of the Willing" referring to everyone they see as a threat as terrorists.

Dahr Jamal (US unembedded reporter) reported this from an e-mail exchange he received a copy of from a friend...

"She told me that, with no electricity, it is impossible to go to sleep when it is 40 degrees Celsius unless they get really tired after midnight. Her husband leaves the doors open because they are afraid that the American and Iraqi troops will bomb the doors if they don't respond from first door knock during searching raids. Leaving the doors open is another terror story after the attack of the troops' vicious dogs on a ten-month old baby, tearing him apart and eating him in the same neighborhood just a few days ago. The troops let the dogs attack civilians. The dogs bite them and terrify the kids with their angry red eyes in the middle of the night. So, as you can see my dear Gerri, we don't have only one Abu Ghraib with torturing dogs, we have thousands of Abu Ghraibs all over Baghdad and other Iraqi cities."

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174819/dahr_jamail_iraq_reporter_schizophrenic_in_disneyland

[AndyWright68]

08:25 AM on 09/02/2011

And 100% of the political population.

[dsmithsfamily]

09:19 PM on 09/01/2011

we still have a long way to go as a peoples

[Al Nava]

08:25 PM on 09/01/2011

Why did we invade Iraq again, if all the "terrorists" were supposedly in Afghanistan?

[Boduognat]

01:59 AM on 09/02/2011

to bring Freedom, Democracy, Liberty, Prosperity, Civilisation (sic)....

and to grab the oil off course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rocQRgIy3io (JP Morgan chokes our economy)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-508157/Tony-Blairs-time-bank-job-make-times-expected.html

It wasn"t a War, it was armed robbery.

[Frenchautopilot]

03:22 AM on 09/02/2011

1. Make daddy proud.
2. Send big contracts to Cheney's friends in the MIC and Big Oil.
3. ? There is no #3.