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Our Troops Call'd Cold Blooded Murderers
Topic Started: Jul 28 2008, 09:06 AM (451 Views)
mynameis	Jul 28 2008, 09:06 AM Post #1
Internet Jujitsu Posts: 1,567 Group: Members Member #50 Joined: 01/15/08	U.S. Military Says Soldiers Fired on Civilians RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. NY Times Sunday, July 28, 2008 BAGHDAD — The American military admitted Sunday night that a platoon of soldiers raked a car of innocent Iraqi civilians with hundreds of rounds of gunfire and that the military then issued a news release larded with misstatements, asserting that the victims were criminals who had fired on the troops. The attack on June 25 killed three people, a man and two women, as they drove to work at a bank at Baghdad’s airport. The attack infuriated Iraqi officials and even prompted the Iraqi armed forces general command to call the shooting cold-blooded murder. It also bolstered calls from Iraqi politicians to pressure the American military to leave Iraq after this year, when a United Nations mandate expires, unless the United States agrees to permit its soldiers to be subject to criminal prosecution under Iraqi law for attacks on civilians. In a statement issued late Sunday, the American military said that “a thorough investigation determined that the driver and passengers were law-abiding citizens of Iraq.” It added that the soldiers were not at fault for the killings because they had fired warning shots and exercised proper “escalation of force” measures before they opened fire on the people in the car. But the findings called into question the way the military handled the aftermath of the shootings. For example, a key assertion of the news release issued by the military on the day of the killings was that “a weapon was recovered from the wreckage.” But the military said Sunday that no one claimed to have found a weapon in the car or had seen a weapon taken from it. Instead, one of the soldiers at the scene reported seeing an Iraqi police officer pull something from the burned car and then place it in the front seat of an ambulance, according to Lt. Col. Steve Stover, a spokesman for the Fourth Infantry Division, which patrols Baghdad. http://www.prisonplanet.com/us-military-says-soldiers-fired-on-civilians.html http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/world/middleeast/28iraq.html?hp



look-up	Jul 28 2008, 10:25 AM Post #2
Posts: 1,642 Group: Admins Member #63 Joined: 01/15/08	I'm glad they've made the admission that they were civilians, but what is the issue with not admitting the soldiers are at fault? Either they are at fault, or the people who determined they are not at fault, are at fault, since they create the procedures soldiers will follow. One thing is for sure, warning shots toward a civilian, non-threatening vehicle is not a reason to shoot additional shots. Did the vehicle attempt to flee after hearing the warning shots? Ask youvelves something. What would YOU do if you were in that vehicle? I'd run like hell and hope I could dodge bullets like batman.
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Flippy	Jul 28 2008, 01:40 PM Post #3
Posts: 578 Group: Members Member #8 Joined: 01/12/08	Haven't you learned from Fox News, Admitting Fault = a sign of weakness. Iraq was not a mistake either...
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hanuri	Aug 17 2008, 11:16 AM Post #4
Posts: 58 Group: Members Member #791 Joined: 08/09/08	It also bolstered calls from Iraqi politicians to pressure the American military to leave Iraq after this year, when a United Nations mandate expires, unless the United States agrees to permit its soldiers to be subject to criminal prosecution under Iraqi law for attacks on civilians hah THAT I would like to see. no , they yare untouchable. they are liberators , spreading the democracy RIGHT?
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hanuri	Aug 17 2008, 11:21 AM Post #5
Posts: 58 Group: Members Member #791 Joined: 08/09/08	some heritage will boy george leave behind .......oh wait he´s made sacrifices too. he does not play golf anymore. sure he´s the man who knows what being responsible means . those who have lost sons , daughters , husbands will surely appreciate george´s way of taking responsibility.
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