Accusations against U.S. enrage Iraqis

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Accusations against U.S. enrage Iraqis

By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A third set of allegations that U.S. troops have deliberately killed civilians is fueling a furor in Iraq and drawing strong condemnations from government and human rights officials.

"It looks like the killing of Iraqi civilians is becoming a daily phenomenon," the chairman of the Iraqi Human Rights Association, Muayed al-Anbaki, said Friday after video ran on television of children and adults slain in a raid in March on the Iraqi village of Ishaqi north of Baghdad.

Al-Anbaki's comments came a day after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki upbraided the U.S. military over allegations that Marines killed two dozen unarmed civilians in the western city of Haditha, calling it "a horrible crime." They were his strongest public comments on the subject since his government was sworn in last month.

U.S. commanders have ordered new ethics training for all troops in Iraq. But the flow of revelations and investigations threatens to undermine Iraq's new government and public support in America for President Bush's management of the war.

Iraq's government also began its own investigation of the deaths in Haditha.

In addition to the Haditha case, in which Marines are alleged to have gunned down 24 civilians in a rage of revenge for a bombing that killed a Marine in November, seven Marines and a Navy corpsman could face murder, kidnapping and conspiracy charges as early as Friday in the April shooting death of an Iraqi man in yet another incident, a defense attorney said Thursday.


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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060602/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_civilians_killed

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Does that mean we're not winning hearts and minds and being welcomed

with flowers anymore?

[cantstandbush]

2. When the Iraqis finally get their shit together and stick together as

Saddam warned them to do, maybe then they will run us out of their country and fend for themselves.

[uppityperson]

3. ERROR: Acts of US enrage Iraqis

Edited to add that they enrage me also.