US soldiers accused of killing Iraqi farmers - 15 of them

[donsu]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200606/s1667845.htm


Iraqi police have accused the US military of killing 15 farm workers during a raid near Baquba, north of Baghdad.

But the US Army says the dead men were all insurgents who had opened fire on soldiers during an operation in the area.

In a statement, the US military says its troops came under small arms fire from a rooftop as they approached a house during a raid near Baquba.

It says soldiers and attack helicopters returned fire, killing 15 insurgents.

But Iraqi police and relatives of the dead men say the victims were poultry farm workers who had been sleeping in the fields when US troops attacked.
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and the killing goes on and on and on and on

[Karenina]

1. and on and on and on and on...

[w8liftinglady]

2. how many times have those soldiers been deployed?

I'm seeing a pattern between # of times and brutalities...