US opened fire at elementary school, killed 7 children, injured 3 more

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Updated: US opened fire at elementary school, killed 7 children, injured 3 more

by skywriter
Sun Jun 03, 2007 at 11:01:41 AM PDT

Added at the end of diary is link showing insurgents taking break from civil war to step up attacks on occupation troops.

I would think this would have made headlines but it didn't. The corporate news media cares when American children are killed in school. But Iraqi kids? No.

* Around 10.30 am, an American helicopter opened fire on a primary school at Al-Nida ( 9 km north west of Mendli ) killing 7 pupils and injuring 3 other pupils with huge damage to the school building. Eyewitnesses confirmed this report while the American side said that they opened fire on the building after being fired from it.

This was reported by McClatchy (formerly Knight-Ridder) news reporters in Iraq four weeks ago, and yet...

Why did this event not make the corporate news in the US, except as a fleeting blip, an aside from one reliable news service. It was the second lead item on the widely read Juan Cole May 9. Cole linked to an item in a round up by McClatchy reporters in Iraq. And then it became a cold case in only one month, forgotten in the cavalcade of daily mayhem that knows only one truth: George W. Bush set the fire.

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