US military massacres Iraqi civilians near Syrian border

[IndianaGreen]

US military massacres Iraqi civilians near Syrian border
By Tom Carter and Joseph Kay
2 November 2005

In the immediate aftermath of the vote on the Iraq constitution, the US military has stepped up its campaign of violence in several cities near the Syrian border. The new wave of killings underscores the cynicism of the claims that the referendum embodied the birth of democracy in Iraq—compliments of US missiles, bombs, bullets and torture chambers.

In the border city of Al-Qaim, US warplanes dropped bombs that killed 40 people and wounded 20, according to an article October 31 in Al Jazeera. The hospital doctor said most of the victims were women and children, and a local tribal leader explained that there were no weapons nearby.

An Associated Press television news crew near the Syrian border filmed Iraqis searching the rubble for their belongings and digging out the corpses of family members, which they rolled in blankets. In three of the bundles were mere children.

One man told AP, “At least 20 innocent people were killed by the US warplanes. Why are the Americans killing families? Where are the insurgents? We don’t see democracy. We just see destruction.”

The US has also launched an offensive against the nearby town of Hsaiba, which is located on Iraq’s border with Syria and is the town through which Syrian-bound rail traffic from Baghdad passes. Reporter Mahmud Al-Rawi told Al Jazeera that six homes in Hsaiba were destroyed by American warplanes, which have been conducting almost daily bombings of the town. As of this writing, the city has been encircled by US ground forces, which are preventing anyone attempting to flee the carnage from getting past.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/nov2005/irq-n02.shtml

[GetTheRightVote]

1. 55% see the Bush Pres as a failure and reports like this are the reason wy

why, they are so evil it makes me sick.

:kick:

[Carolab]

2. I wonder if the AP will release this?

"An Associated Press television news crew near the Syrian border filmed Iraqis searching the rubble for their belongings and digging out the corpses of family members, which they rolled in blankets. In three of the bundles were mere children."

This needs to come out in the so-called MSM.

[IndianaGreen]

3. The AP editors will kill the story

Like the rest of the MSM, they want us to believe that the insurgency in on its death throes and the insurgents are either Al-Qaeda or Saddam's hangers on.