Knight-Ridder has the details. The US military admitted yesterday that large parts of Anbar province are controlled by Sunni insurgents. The US has lost the war for control of Iraq, and so has their Green Zone-based Iraqi government.
Knight-Ridder has the details. The US military admitted yesterday that large parts of Anbar province are controlled by Sunni insurgents. The US has lost the war for control of Iraq, and so has their Green Zone-based Iraqi government.
According to Dahr Jamail, who is in Iraq.
LA Times- apparently there is also video footage from an aerial drone of the aftermath. It takes a high officer to order drone surveillance.
Briones said he took pictures of at least 15 bodies before his camera batteries died. He said he then helped other Marines remove the bodies and place them in body bags. He said his worst moment, and one that haunts him to this day, was picking up the body of a young girl who was shot in the head.
“I held her out like this,” he said, demonstrating with his arms extended, “but her head was bobbing up and down and the insides fell on my legs.”
As he spoke, his mother, Susie Briones, 40, a Hanford community college teacher, who was sitting beside him at the kitchen table, silently wiped away tears.
Earlier she confided to a reporter that her son called frequently from Iraq after he experienced nightmares over the little girl.
“He called me many times,” she said, “about carrying this little girl in his hands and her brains splattering on his boots. He’d say, ‘Mom, I can’t clean my boots. I can’t clean my boots. I see her.’ ”
AP- 2 killed and one of CBS’ main Iraq reporters in critical condition in Baghdad.
Rioting in the streets of Kabul against the Americans.
UPDATE: The situation is far worse than reported in the US media.
US troops then opened fire and killed at least four people, an AFP photographer at the scene said. He said two men were shot dead next to him, and two other bodies were found after the burst of gunfire. Several were wounded.
The coalition said there were “indications that at least one coalition military vehicle fired warning shots over the crowd.” It said it regretted the incident and was investigating.
The shooting set off more fury as protesters held aloft one of the bodies and chanted: “Death to America, Death to Karzai.”
“These traitors killed at least 10 people. Death to them,” a protestor named Ahmadullah told an AFP reporter, referring to the American troops.
Another said: “These cowards opened fire into the crowd and killed them like sheep. First they drove into the people’s cars, destroyed them and then fired onto the people who were only throwing stones at them.”
The coalition troops left the scene as Afghan police arrived. The growing mob turned on police, setting alight a police post and several police vehicles, the photographer said. Afghan police also opened fire.
Crowds later marched through the capital. One group of around 1,000 people pushed through the city centre to a diplomatic quarter, and smaller mobs of a couple of hundred men rioted elsewhere.
Some of the marchers were carrying knives. One man said: “Where are the Americans?”
AP-”Who covered it up, why did they cover it up, why did they wait so long?” Murtha said on “This Week” on ABC. “We don’t know how far it goes. It goes right up the chain of command.”
Murray Waas once gain with Pulitzer-level material, way ahead of everyone else. This adds to my hunch that John Ashcroft is going to end up snared in this for breaking the law. His role was similar to that of Ed Meese in Iran-Contra; covering up instead of investigating.
Not 7, not 15, 24 Iraqi civilians were killed ‘in cold blood.’