...before people wise up to the fact that there is no fucking excuse for what has been going on in Iraq and what continues to go on in Iraq? Am I the only one sick to death of all the excuses I see day after day even here of all places?
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L0147659.htmFACTBOX-U.S. troops and civilian complaints in Iraq
01 Jun 2006 14:24:15 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Adds Hamandiya incident, April 2006)
BAGHDAD, June 1 (Reuters) - U.S. forces are investigating whether Marines killed 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha last year.
Here are some other incidents that have made headlines about U.S. forces' treatment of civilians in Iraq:
April 28, 2003 - Troops of the 82nd Airborne Division open fire as 100 or so demonstrators surround their base in the Sunni town of Falluja. Officers said they returned fire against two men with rifles and said up to 10 people were killed. The local hospital put the casualty toll at 13 dead and 75 wounded......
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....May 4 - 101st Airborne Division says troops kill two men and a woman after being fired on from house in Samarra, adding the dead were involved in attack. Police name two dead women aged 60 and 20 and a mentally handicapped man and say they were unarmed. Relatives tell Reuters troops fired on them in a room.
May 30 - U.S. forces shoot dead two women in a car near Samarra. Troops say driver ignored signs to stop. Relatives and police say one of dead women was pregnant and going to hospital
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How many more?