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by Eli Stephens left i on the news Entered into the database on Thursday, June 22nd, 2006 @ 18:15:33 MST |
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U.S. forces killed three Iraqi farmers and wounded four during an air raid
Tuesday over Buchahin, to the northeast of the capital. The civilians were resting at a poultry farm when they were caught in the
bombings, according to Hadi al Azawi, member of a human rights organization
in Baquba, PL reports. The U.S. command claimed that the mission was to eliminate members of the
international Al Qaeda network. AP Television News footage showed bloodstained mattresses and bullets inside
a chicken processing plant in the village where residents say U.S. soldiers
killed those civilians. A Palestinian woman was killed today in Gaza after a pair of Israeli missiles
veered off target, one of them slamming into a house. It was the latest in
a series of botched air strikes that have killed a dozen Palestinian civilians
in the last eight days. The strike, which also injured a reported 13 people in the southern town
of Khan Yunis, came a day after another strike killed three Palestinian children,
whose bodies were paraded today before burial through Gaza streets seething
with angry citizens. Mutilating captured soldiers and beheading them (if that is what happened
to the two U.S. soldiers who were just captured and killed) is an atrocity.
Is it any more of an atrocity than dropping bombs on people from high in the
sky and obliterating them that way? Not as far as I'm concerned. But somehow,
these non face-to-face murders never seem to draw the same degree of condemnation
(or any condemnation at all, for that matter), even when the former involve
the killing of soldiers engaged in a war/occupation, and the latter involves
civilians. Needless to say, those remote murders by pushbutton are precisely
the kind of murders that the Americans in Iraq and the Israelis in Palestine
specialize in. _________________ Read from Looking Glass News Air
Raids Terrorize Gaza Residents, Target Key Infrastructure Air
strikes hit Gaza building, roads US
air raid kills 14 in Iraqi family -official US
increases air attacks in Iraq General
admits to secret air war U.S.
Airstrikes Take Toll on Civilians The
media and the "air war" Israel:
Rogue Nation Committing Genocide |
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