Iraq Rejects US Probe Clearing Troops of Killings...

bridgit

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Iraq Rejects US Probe Clearing Troops of Killings...

'BAGHDAD - Iraq vowed on Saturday to press on with its own probe into the deaths of civilians in a U.S. raid on the town of Ishaqi, rejecting the U.S. military's exoneration of its forces.

First they lied about the weapons of mass destruction, then there was the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal and now it's clear to the world they were guilty in Haditha.

Abdullah Hussein, an engineer in Baghdad
Adnan al-Kazimi, an aide to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, said the government would also demand an apology from the United States and compensation for the victims in several cases, including the alleged massacre in the town of Haditha last year.

"We have from more than one source that the Ishaqi killings were carried out under questionable circumstances. More than one child was killed. This report was not fair for the Iraqi people and the children who were killed," he told Reuters.

The U.S. military had issued a statement about Ishaqi saying allegations that U.S. troops "executed a family ... and then hid the alleged crimes by directing an air strike, are absolutely false".' http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0603-05.htm

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Sat Jun-03-06 03:26 PM
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1. Listen to them, in their own words, if you can, if you dare, they have

their own story to tell, one they need to share.

World Tribunal on Iraq, Istanbul: Program 1; part 1 (2005)
The World Tribunal on Iraq met for it's final session June 24-27, 2005 in Istanbul Turkey. Watch selections of the 54 testimonies given from the Panel of Advocates and Witnesses who came from around the world, including from Iraq, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Excerpts of speech by author Arundhati Roy are included. Two one-hour programs are presented, each divided here into two 30-minute parts.

http://www.archive.org/details/worldtribunaloniraq

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bridgit

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Sat Jun-03-06 03:35 PM
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2. that's right, we spend mountains of money shedding rivers of blood...

to hand people we care so little for all our grander, loftier poetries such as: freedom, liberty, sovereignty; to then tell them to "shut the hell up" while juking them for their oil, and geopolitical landscape. this has to be thee sloppiest installation of a regime since bush came to washington

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Union Thug

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Sat Jun-03-06 04:05 PM
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3. Did anyone expect them to be found guilty? Maybe I'm old and cynical,

but these faux investigations are almost always a sick joke. And let's face it, Americans don't give a shit so long as they have their cell phones and iPods.

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bridgit

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Sat Jun-03-06 04:07 PM
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4. yup, bobby socks & milkshakes it's all the same...

my sense is that someone is guilty somewhere though

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