Iraqi Family Shot Dead by Panicking US Troops

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0810-07.htm

Published on Sunday, August 10, 2003 by the lndependent/UK
Family Shot Dead by Panicking US Troops
Firing blindly during a power cut, soldiers kill a father and three children in their car

by Justin Huggler in Baghdad

The abd al-Kerim family didn't have a chance. American soldiers opened fire on their car with no warning and at close quarters. They killed the father and three of the children, one of them only eight years old. Now only the mother, Anwaar, and a 13-year-old daughter are alive to tell how the bullets tore through the windscreen and how they screamed for the Americans to stop.

"We never did anything to the Americans and they just killed us," the heavily pregnant Ms abd al-Kerim said. "We were calling out to them 'Stop, stop, we are a family', but they kept on shooting."

The story of how Adel abd al-Kerim and three of his children were killed emerged yesterday, exactly 100 days after President George Bush declared the war in Iraq was over. In Washington yesterday, Mr Bush declared in a radio address: "Life is returning to normal for the Iraqi people ... All Americans can be proud of what our military and provisional authorities have achieved in Iraq."

But in this city Iraqi civilians still die needlessly almost every day at the hands of nervous, trigger-happy American soldiers.

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Putting bullets through them is not the best of ways to win them.

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Not sure this 2-day old news needs a new thread...

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What about the family. Im sure they had AK's in their hands.

Im growing tired of the justification of our militarie's 'self-defense' on innocent civilians. Of course none of this would be happening if Bush and Company didnt want oil so badly.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=59163&mesg_id=59163


I am locking this one.


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