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US forces shot and killed a nine-year old Iraqi girl as she came out of her school
following final exams in Baghdad. A medical specialist in Baghdad’s al-Yarmuk
General Hospital told the correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam that an American
sniper opened fire on ‘A’ishah Ahmad ‘Umar, killing her.
For its part, the US military occupation forces announced that they had begun
an investigation of the Marine who shot the little girl and promised to punish
him if he is found guilty.
A source in the Iraqi puppet army told Mafkarat al-Islam that the American
soldier was very drunk at the time of the killing and that he was withdrawn
from his observation post after the incident.
The father of ‘A’ishah, who works for the Railroad Department said
that residents in the area where his little daughter was killed told him that
the American had been betting with his buddies whether he could hit the little
girl who had come out of the school some 700 meters from the US observation
post.
For its part the American propaganda TV station called “al-‘Iraqiyah”
blamed what it called “terrorists” (by which they meant the Iraqi
Resistance) for the shooting of the little girl, but statements by the US military
and the Iraqi puppet forces exposed the “al-‘Iraqiyah” story
to be a lie.
