Reply #10: BBC: Iraqis reject US Ishaqi findings

[IndianaGreen]

The US can't accuse the Iraqi government of being an insurgent group in order to dismiss the Ishaqi massacre story.

Iraqis reject US Ishaqi findings

Last Updated: Saturday, 3 June 2006, 14:14 GMT 15:14 UK

The Iraqi government has rejected the findings of a US military investigation into the deaths of 11 civilians in the village of Ishaqi, north of Baghdad.

A spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki said the report, which cleared the US soldiers of wrongdoing, was unfair.

The government will demand an apology and compensation, the spokesman said.

The US said allegations the troops had deliberately killed a family and then covered it up were "absolutely false".

A report filed by Iraqi police accused US troops of rounding up and deliberately shooting 11 people in the house in Ishaqi, including five children and four women, before blowing up the building.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5044244.stm