IRAQ: Thousands flee US military onslaught on Haditha

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/1737924dfe9294f1ff3ec0dc955d48ab.htm

BAGHDAD, 6 October (IRIN) - Nearly 1,000 families have fled their homes in Haditha in western Iraq following the launch of a US-led military operation to hunt down in insurgents in the town in the Euphrates river valley, according to residents in the area.

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The combined military operation by 2,500 US and Iraqi government troops backed by warplanes began in Hadithi on Tuesday and followed on from a similar offensive against Islamic insurgents in villages near al-Qaim on the Syrian border which began on 1 October.

The IRCS said earlier this week that over 900 families had abandoned their homes in the al-Qaim area, which lies further upstream in the Euphrates valley.

The main hospital in al-Qaim said it had treated dozens of civilians who had been injured in crossfire between the insurgents and 1,000 US troops conducting house-to-house searches and had admitted several bodies of people who had been killed.

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"My wife was hurt as we ran out of our house in an exchange of fire between those inhuman US soldiers and the insurgents. Our city will be destroyed like Fallujah and it is the innocent people who will suffer as a result," moaned Salah Kubaissy, 46, who was seeking shelter in an abandoned school.

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Inhuman US soldiers..... how the fuck you going to win in Iraq.

send them all to the Hague? I'm afraid it won't be soon enough. Everything he touches turns to shit and we haven't much time.

Like our little chimp cares if some brown people get killed for nothing! God told him to kill you for christ's sake! America needs your oil, case closed.

Gyre

looks like on a daily basis. The price that innocent people pay for our political hubris. Imagine this was your family:

"Our city will be destroyed like Fallujah and it is the innocent people who will suffer as a result," moaned Salah Kubaissy.

Real people with real lives getting really crushed. This is our doing, our responsiblity. But apparently the only thing that can get the attention of the sheeple is higher gas prices.

Encourage Dems not to fund this War. $10 Billion not accounted for! Until that money is accounted for there will be no more funds to continue the Occupation of Iraq!!!

From the article:

They broke into my house and started to shout at me and my wife. She was having a bath, but they just took her naked and pushed her into the kitchen, saying that if she moved she was going to die," Shaker Hakeem, 39, another local resident, told IRIN.

Medical sources said the US-led forces had arrested two doctors at the main hospital in Haditha. US troops burst in complaining that everyone there was part of the resistance, they said.

"They entered our hospital without the minimum of respect to our patients and arrested many of them. Even two doctors were arrested as they were carrying out a small surgical operation," said Haki Hadethi, a senior doctor at the hospital.
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No doubt the reporter who dared to try to get the word out about this, rather than glorifying some G.I. giving a kid a piece of gum will be getting shot, with no apology, AGAIN.