Reply #11: UPI story from a locked thread: "Baghdad's streets turn deadly"

[Minstrel Boy]

This is a nightmare. Wake up, America, and get the hell out!


By daybreak, U.S. M1A2 tanks were stationed throughout key intersections of the neighborhood, which had fallen quiet. But the charred remains of two Humvees -- in a section of town completely controlled by Sadr's men -- and the huge numbers of dead and wounded crammed into the local hospital told a story of carnage in which dozens of Iraqis found themselves caught between militia members and the heaviest weapons in the U.S. Army arsenal.

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No less than 12 bodies of civilians -- including two young children -- could be seen in the hospital, where the morgue was overflowing with dead, leaving bodies wrapped in shrouds on the patio in front of the building. And these were the bodies of the unclaimed, unidentified victims -- family members had been claiming their dead all morning and had taken at least another 12 away for burial, according to doctors.

More dead were also shipped to Baghdad's Kindi Hospital, which has a larger refrigerator facility.

"I never saw a more despicable and evil action by the Americans (last night)," Dr. Tariq Atham said. "Even (Ariel) Sharon (Prime Minister of Israel) or Saddam are better. Saddam hurt us Shiite a lot, but what we're seeing from the Americans is shit. They shot children and women in the face and neck every time. Saddam never did that."

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040405-032500-2261r