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U.S. Accidentally Kills 9 Iraqi Civilians
Military Says 3 More Innocents Injured During Operation Chasing Alleged Al Qaeda Fighters
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The civilians were killed Saturday near Iskandariyah, 30 miles south of the Iraqi capital, U.S. Navy Lt. Patrick Evans told The Associated Press. Three more civilians were wounded and taken to U.S. military hospitals nearby, he said.
Evans did not give details about exactly how the people were killed, but said the killings occurred as U.S. forces pursued suspected al Qaeda in Iraq militants in the area.
The incident and the events surrounding it are under investigation, he said.
Iraqi police said the victims, including two women, were in two houses in the village of Tal al-Samar, which was bombed by American warplanes late Saturday. They were all Sunni members of the al-Ghrir tribe, an officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to media.
The U.S. air strike came after an American convoy came under enemy fire in Tal al-Samar, and soldiers called for air support, the Iraqi officer said.
Shortly after the incident, American officers met with a Muslim sheik representing citizens in the area, Evans said.
"We offer our condolences to the families of those who were killed in this incident, and we mourn the loss of innocent civilian life," he said in a statement e-mailed to the AP.
Saturday's strike was the deadliest known case of mistaken identity in recent months.
In November, a leader of one of the so-called awakening councils - Sunni tribesmen allied with American forces, fighting to oust al Qaeda from their hometowns - said U.S. soldiers killed dozens of his fighters during a 12-hour battle north of Baghdad.
The leader, Mansour Abid Salim of the Taji Awakening Council, accused American troops of mistaking his men for militants. The U.S. military admitted killing 25 men, but said they were insurgents operating "in the target area" where al Qaeda was believed to be hiding.
The U.S. military investigated that incident, but the two versions of events were never reconciled.
A month later, the U.S. military said its forces accidentally killed two people during a raid in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, and that one of them was later revealed to be an awakening council member.
In other developments:
Meanwhile, a new study has found that U.S. military hospitals treated a significant number of wounded and sick children in the early years of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, and military doctors say children keep arriving at their hospitals today.
With no true front line or battle zone, the war makes children especially vulnerable to stray bullets and other combat hazards, one study author said. And with Iraq's own medical system collapsing, families seek out the U.S. military to help their children with more conventional ailments.
"I took care of children burned from a kerosene heater, regular car accidents, other injuries secondary to the conflict itself," said study co-author Dr. Philip Spinella, who served as an Army doctor in Baghdad in 2004 and 2005.
Military doctors routinely treat children wounded by rocket-propelled grenades and roadside bombs, said Spinella, who now works at Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford.
The study, published in the February issue of the journal Pediatrics, is based on Army hospital data from December 2001 to December 2004.
(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
At left, U.S. Army Capt. Kerri Mullen, Brigade Surgeon for 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, treats an Iraqi girl's burns Friday at a one day medical clinic in Beijia village in Arab Jabour, south of Baghdad.
"The majority of our patients at any given time are Iraqi nationals," Air Force Maj. David Norton, who runs the intensive care unit there, said in an e-mail. "With respect to children in particular, we see far too many. Iraqi children, through no fault of their own, are forced to grow up quickly and are oftentimes the unfortunate victims of an adult world."
Army 1st Lt. Lee Jackson, a pediatric nurse at the Balad hospital, said in an e-mail that the ICU sometimes seems like a pediatric unit because of the number of children there. Neither Jackson nor Norton was involved in the study.
"We take great joy in the recovery of our pediatric patients and we grieve for each one that has a poor outcome," Jackson said.
The study found that almost 6 percent of the pediatric patients in military hospitals died, a death rate similar to that of adult non-U.S. coalition patients.
The researchers, all current or former military doctors, wanted to quantify what they had seen with their own eyes. Analyzing hospital data, they discovered children made up 4 percent of admissions and 10 percent of bed-days in U.S. military hospitals in the early years of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
More than 1,000 children were admitted to U.S. military hospitals during the three-year study period.
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Caring for children generates enormous good will among the people of Iraq, Dr. Eaman Algobory, an Iraqi medical officer in Baghdad for the International Office for Migration, said in a telephone interview from Jordan.It's like an angel touched their heart.
Dr. Eaman Algobory,International Office for Migration
"It's like an angel touched their heart," Algobory said of the effect on Iraqis who have experienced the Army's medical care of children. "American soldiers in the field, if they see any child hurt, automatically they will try to protect them and evacuate them and try to save his life. This is well known in the street."
She was not involved in the new study, but has worked with Spinella and other military doctors to find care for children.
Few deployed doctors and nurses are pediatric specialists, but the U.S. Army Medical Command has adapted to what the study authors called "the increased load of pediatric patients."
The Army now offers pediatric trauma training to hospital staff before deployment and has added child-size equipment and liquid antibiotics to its supplies. Pediatric specialists are available by telephone.
"We've been able to overcome the difficulties," said Spinella, who added that the study and his comments do not reflect official military or government positions.
The researchers couldn't determine how many of the treated children had combat-related injuries, said study co-author Dr. Mark Burnett of Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, who served in Iraq in 2006 and 2007.
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2004 article by Pierre-Henry Bunel, a former agent for French military intelligence.
"For example, when one of us was late at the bus stop to leave the Staff College, the two officers used to tell us: ''You''ll be noted in ''Q eidat il-Maaloomaat'' which meant ''You''ll be logged in the information database.'' Meaning ''You will receive a warning . . .'' If the case was more severe, they would used to talk about ''Q eidat i-Taaleemaat.'' Meaning ''the decision database.'' It meant ''you will be punished.'' Those two files were kept in one file called in Arabic ''Q eidat ilmu''ti''aat'' which is the exact translation of the English word database. But the Arabs commonly used the short word Al Qaida which is the Arabic word for "base." The military air base of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is called ''q eidat ''riyadh al ''askariya.'' Q eida means "a base" and "Al Qaida" means "the base." For the worst cases they used to speak of logging in ''Al Qaida.''
"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this.
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Posted by downtowner97 at 03:37 AM : Feb 04, 2008
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Yes and that is so very wrong. For this arrogant piece of human trash to LIE to the People of this nation over and over and over to start a war, have NO exit plan once in it, then leave the mess for someone else to clean up. I personally hope the lower than life animal roast in helll for eternity! Sieg Heil Bush
Top Secret: Bush Told the Truth About WMD
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=26457045-1E9E-4795-9D31-0E5B73E74EE9
Foreign Intel Had Identified WMD Sites
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/007528.php
Saddam, Nikita and Virtual Weapons of Mass Destruction:
A Question of Threat Perception and Intelligence Assessment
David B. Rivkin, Jr., and Lee A. Casey
http://www.inthenationalinterest.com/Articles/Vol2Issue23/Vol2iss23RivkinCasey.html
THE SECURITY COUNCIL, 27 JANUARY 2003:
AN UPDATE ON INSPECTION
Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC, Dr. Hans Blix
http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/Bx27.htm
AP Reports ''Bush Lied'' Study Funded by Ultra-leftist George Soros
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/01/23/ap-bush-lied-study-not-revealed-funded-george-soros
Posted by brianbwb at 04:27 AM : Feb 04, 2008
hahaha you believe the drivel of a senile brit LOL
hahaha
tell it to osama bin laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri
tell it to the victims
Al-Qaeda (also al-Qaida or al-Qa''ida or al-Qa''idah) (Arabic: %u0627%u0644%u0642%u0627%u0639%u062F%u0629%u200E al-q%u0101%u0295ida, translation: The Base) is an international alliance of Islamic militant terrorist organizations founded in 1988
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda grew out of the Services Office, a clearinghouse for the international Muslim brigade opposed to the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In the 1980s, the Services Office%u2014run by bin Laden and the Palestinian religious scholar Abdullah Azzam%u2014recruited, trained, and financed thousands of foreign mujahadeen, or holy warriors, from more than fifty countries. Bin Laden wanted these fighters to continue the "holy war" beyond Afghanistan. He formed al-Qaeda around 1988.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/9126/
Posted by joyous88 at 05:27 AM : Feb 04, 2008
hahaha
he is both LOL
hahaha
it is intuitively obvious to the most casual observer that soros is a natural born liar as has been proved repeatedly with all his financed BS study reports.
got it moonbat
brianbwb,
Re: "The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this."
Talk like that might explain his mysterious "suicide".
Posted by FeelFree1 at 05:42 AM : Feb 04, 2008
wrongggg again moonbat shill for retarded radical fascist nazi terrorislamic jihadist slavers and murderers
On 6 August 2005, Cook was with Gaynor on the mountain Ben Stack in Sutherland, Scotland, when he suffered a severe heart attack. Some early reports suggested that he had died before reaching the summit,[14] but according to his last SMS he had already climbed it and was descending,[15] despite earlier reports that neither of the walkers had a mobile phone. Cook''s wife said that he collapsed and that she had called out and attracted a stranger in order to use his mobile at 2:23 pm. Due to the lack of time, Gaynor was not winched onto the helicopter and walked down the mountain with the wanderer.[16] Cook was flown from the mountain at 3:01 pm, to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness where he was pronounced dead at 4:05 pm. The post mortem revealed that Cook died of hypertensive heart disease,
I was confusing the death of Robin Cook with the death of Dr. David Kelly. My mistake.
What do you know, "terrorislam6"? They say that even a broken clock is right twice per day.
You are gaining on it.
maxify55,
Re: "It''s probably not even legal. It''''s war. Get over it and leave the big dog on the porch and stop whining...sheez"
Is this your advice to the families of these dead civilians?
Pay no attention to the thousand or tens of thousands of others.
Just remember the number "nine".
Posted by FeelFree1
Or is that your advice to the families of the dead US soldiers, lied into harm''s way to "fight" a computer database of CIA operatives?
Notwithstanding that Patton was a psycho, and a McCain type loose cannon, In the case of Iraq, what are we defending, and why are we attacking?
If only that was the case.
How many tens of thousands more have we "accidentally" killed?
Since our lying, cowardly traitor in chief now blames the invasion on "faulty intelligence", all of them.
Iraq did not kick the dog, the dog got out of his enclosure, turned rabid, and is now biting everyone it thinks doesn''t like rabid dogs.
Think about what usually happens to such animals...
wronggg shill for retarded radical fascist nazi terrorislamic jihadist slavers and murderers
the Iraqi war is legal, demonic-rat hero oscar, emmy, nobel prize winning al bore says so,,,
it actually never ended since it only stopped by the signing of a ceasefire,,, just like the korean war,,,
the resumption of hostilities was only a matter of time since iraq broke the ceasefire agreement,,,
blame saddam for iraq,,, Even clintoon and the dems wanted the resumption of hostilities back in 1998,,,
"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country." - Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
"Iraq''s search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power." - Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
Moreover, no international law can prevent the United States from taking actions to protect its vital interests, when it is manifestly clear that there is a choice to be made between law and survival. I believe, however, that such a choice is not presented in the case of Iraq. Indeed, should we decide to proceed, that action can be justified within the framework of international law rather than outside it. In fact, though a new UN resolution may be helpful in building international consensus, the existing resolutions from 1991 are sufficient from a legal standpoint. - Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/gore/gore092302sp.html
thank you evangelical conservatives for turning Amerika in to a Nazi police state
who taught the germans how to be nazis?
The status of People of the Book (Jews and Christians) under Islamic rule.
7th-21st century. The notion of Dhimmitude, originating in the 7th century, still applies today to non-Muslims under Islamic rule%u2014whether Jews or Christians, whether in Saudi Arabia or in Sudan. Dhimmitude began in 628 CE when Mohammed and his forces conquered the Jewish oasis at Khaybar. They massacred many of the Jews and forced the rest to accept a pact ("Dhimma") which rendered them inferior to their Muslim conquerors. Over the centuries, the ideology of Dhimmitude expanded into a formal system of religious apartheid.
Institutionalized apartheid. In Shari%u2019a law, there are official discriminations against the Dhimmi, such as the poll-tax or jizya.
No legal rights. Jews may not testify in court against a Muslim and have no legal right to dispute or challenge anything done to them by Muslims. There is no such thing as a Muslim raping a Jewish woman; there is no such thing as a Muslim murdering a Jew (at most, it can be manslaughter). In contrast, a Jew who strikes a Muslim is killed.
http://www.dhimmi.com/dhimmi_overview.htm
http://www.dhimmi.com/
http://www.dhimmi.com/victimsgallery.htm
who taught the germans how to be nazis?
The status of People of the Book (Jews and Christians) under Islamic rule.
7th-21st century.
Humiliation and vulnerability. Jews and Christians had to walk around with badges or veils identifying them as Jews or Christians. The yellow star that Jews had wear in Nazi Germany did not originate in Europe. It was borrowed from the Muslim world where it was part of the apartheid system of Dhimmitude.
Conditional protection. The protection of the Dhimmi is withdrawn if the Dhimmi rebels against Islamic law, gives allegiance to non-Muslim power (such as Israel), refuses to pay the poll-tax, entices a Muslim from his faith, or harms a Muslim or his property. If the protection is lifted, jihad resumes. For example, Islamists in Egypt who pillage and kill the Copts do so because they no longer pay their poll-tax and therefore are no longer protected.
http://www.dhimmi.com/dhimmi_overview.htm
http://www.dhimmi.com/
http://www.dhimmi.com/victimsgallery.htm
My heart goes out to any GI that has to live with a mistake.
War is an awful thing for everyone.
"I took care of children burned from a kerosene heater, regular car accidents, other injuries secondary to the conflict itself," said study co-author Dr. Philip Spinella, who served as an Army doctor in Baghdad in 2004 and 2005."
So the US government can provide free health care for Iraqi children, at the same time it refuses to pay for health care for American children.
This is acceptable?
Posted by terrorislam6 at 08:22 AM : Feb 04, 2008
Martin Luther - the creator of the Lutheran church. Check out his book, "On the Jews and their lies".
God save the Iraqi people from this madness.
Posted by Inventagod
That''s what I was considering, otherwise, it would be reported that 9 top level al Qaeda commanders were killed.
Mission Accomplished?
Posted by watcher269
It could, yes. Too bad these people got in the way of Bush''s war on terror, huh?
Where is the shame of the people that put this madman in our White House?
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Posted by ilikecats1 at 09:31 AM : Feb 04, 2008
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Why? There are 935 LIES posted on Public Integrity''s Web site that say it is correct. Care to give us ONE, just ONE, of those 935 LIES which in fact is a TRUTH? Otherwise you are dead wrong. Sieg Heil Bush!!
Posted by terrorislam6 at 08:22 AM : Feb 04, 2008
I don''t think you will find ANYONE "teaching" them there Sparky, no more than you will find anyone "teaching" the Klan or Joe McCarthy or any of the other radical right wing organizations that are classified as NAZI''s. It''s within you folks.. it''s something in you that keeps the mind from expanding. Something that makes you, for what reason no one has ever figured out, think you are superior. Sieg Heil and Amen.
Like the little shepherd boy that no one listened to when a real wolf came to attack his sheep.
This is just going to continue on and on. People who support our presence in Iraq have NO IDEA what is happening there or how it is effecting the Iraqi people. They want us gone!!
The whole situation in Iraq is very unstable and not nearly as "positive" as shrub or McCain make it out to be. The Shiites are NOT assimilating the Sunnis into the govn or the army and the Sunnis are getting pissed off.
If no political progress is forthcoming, and hiring of Baathist is only a baby step in the right direction, the stalemate will continue and the Sunnis will resort back to violence again.
We are in such FRAGILE condition there militarily. Our troops are over extended and breaking down. If the violence goes back up and it so easily could, we will be driven from Iraq.
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"Laura Bush promotes healthy living
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - In a rare break from tradition, first lady Laura Bush offered this week''s national radio address to promote healthy living and heart-disease prevention.
"President Bush has handed the mike over to me," she said, according to a White House transcript of the address, which will air Saturday. "And today, I''d like to talk about something that''s close to my heart %u2014 America''s heart health."
These kind of people see no value in individual life. And their excuses for killing get more bazaar by he day!
I forget nothing, and I look right in the eye for the reason for 9/11 every time I see the picture of George W. Bush.
Posted by ilikecats1 at 09:15 AM : Feb 04, 2008
When you characterize a person as "this thing" you are making a very wrong judgement.
Posted by Iceman_1960
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Like 9-11, how soon we forget.
Posted by ilikecats1 at 10:13 AM : Feb 04, 2008
Or like the General Slocum, how soon we forget.
You mean the Saudi mercenaries provided by Bush''s friend Kind Abdullah?
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