G.I.'s Fire on Family in Car, Killing 2, Witnesses Say

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/13/international/middleeast/13IRAQ.html?hp

American soldiers on Monday night killed an Iraqi man and a boy and wounded four others in a car that was driving behind their convoy after a roadside bomb went off nearby, said witnesses, a police official and relatives of the family in the car.

The soldiers, traveling in a convoy of two Humvees, opened fire on the family, which was riding in a dark blue station wagon, after the bomb exploded on Palestine Street about 300 yards from the Oil Ministry, witnesses said.

The family's driver, a man whose first name was Haider, was killed, as was a 10-year-old boy named Mustafa in the seat beside the driver, said family members, a neighbor and a police officer. Mustafa's mother and two of his siblings and his aunt were injured and taken to local hospitals.

"You want to know the truth?" said Lt. Muhammad Ali, an Iraqi policeman who was driving away from Al Kindi Hospital with several colleagues after taking one of the women there. "I'll tell you the truth. The Americans did this. I know after this conversation they will fire me from my job, but that's what happened."

[kalian]

1. Peace and democracy.....

brought by the "benevolent empire"... :eyes:

[NickB79]

2. Winning hearts and minds left and right

Of course, Bush's definition of winning hearts and minds is to have their hearts and brains in jars of formaldehyde.

[Tinoire]

3. No way in hell! Not our boys!

They're so... "pure".

:puke:

Really really sickening. You have to weep for them all though... the dead and the killers.

[KG]

4. tell me again how this cluster fuck is actually a humanitarian mission?

oy.

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. Read on - it gets worse - (sigh)

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.. From the Article:

"The Humvees, which witnesses said did not appear to have been damaged, then turned in the wide road, which was slick from a driving rainstorm, they said.

Soldiers opened fire on the family in the station wagon traveling behind them, said the witnesses, relatives of the victims and Lieutenant Ali, the police officer. The station wagon crashed into a wall about 200 feet past where the bomb had exploded, and soldiers soon began pulling bodies out, the witnesses said.

About 9:20 p.m., more than two dozen soldiers from the First Armored Division were walking around the scene, inspecting the wrecked car, the ground and the area of the median where the bomb had exploded. One soldier warned a reporter and a photographer to leave the area, saying that "something is about to happen that you won't like." A couple of armored vehicles sat on Palestine Street, blocking several lanes as rain continued to fall.

At nearby Al Kindi Hospital, in the room where three of the wounded from the car were being treated, a woman yelled at a visitor and a Palestinian interpreter as soon as they walked in. "God curse the Americans!" shouted the woman, a relative of the victims. "God curse those who brought them to us!"

/snip/

This will continue as long aws the USA is in there, - don't they get it ?

Another two generations of Iraqis festering hatred for the Americans,

may as well get out now, save a few American lives

The country is basically "fecked"

George W. Bush's "Peace" - a miserable failure (gross understatement I know)

(sigh)

[Judi Lynn]

6. Doesn't sound if all the "survivors" will live. What a damned pity. n/t

[lumpy]

7. This sort of thing makes my blood boil.

I have lost all respect for the military. What is wrong that there is no control over what US soldiers do, allowing free reign to kill innocent people in revenge. God won't help this corrupt country.

[Judi Lynn]

8. Different story, no new info. other than this:

(snip) ''We want to leave Iraq because of the Americans and the (U.S.-installed) Governing Council,'' a distraught and weeping Wijdan said at the hospital. (snip/...)

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/013/world/American_troops_kill_driver_ch:.shtml

[amber dog democrat]

9. This will teach them

to respect us. Don't forget we are bringing democracy and freedom to these people.