U.S. Snipers Ignored Ceasefire

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U.S. Snipers Ignored Ceasefire
Printed on Tuesday, April 13, 2004 @ 19:30:53 CST



Report by Lisa Ashkenaz Croke, YellowTimes.org
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WASHINGTON (NFTF.org) -- Accounts from Fallujah residents who either witnessed or were shot during three failed ceasefires seem uniform; U.S. forces fired indiscriminately at any person who dared venture outdoors.

"They say there is a ceasefire and they said 12:00. People went out to do some shopping, and everybody who went out was shot, and this place was full and half of them were dead. I don't know why. Please, you do your best to ask them why," clinic director Mekki Al Azar pleaded to filmmaker Julia Guest, who herself had slipped into Fallujah with a group bringing medical supplies to the near-decimated town.

Yesterday on the American independent news and politics show, Democracy Now (DN), guest and journalist Aaron Glantz, who interviewed Fallujah residents in Baghdad, confirmed accounts in Al Jazeera and United Press International (UPI) that U.S. forces in Fallujah are treating all residents as insurgents, firing indiscriminately at women, children and the elderly.

"When I arrived" (Sat., April 10), reported Guest, "I found a woman who I think was in her 70's who had decided to try to help her sons get out of the city. They decided to leave the family group, and so she just had taken the decision to walk of the front door waving a white flag, because they knew they were in a heavily -- there was a lot of shooting in their area. And she was shot in the stomach and the foot. So, I found her in the hospital with one of her sons in quite a state and she was evacuated in a small van that volunteered to come out from Baghdad and picked her up and took her back to Baghdad."

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:(

he was a non-combatant...

They have been claiming all 700 deaths were INSURGENTS. It is an incredibly despicable thing to witness. :(

I can see this will calm the Middle East.

a reporter was saying that people were afraid to leave their houses because of US snipers.