U.S. has killed more than 100 civilians in 3 months — U.N. report

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U.N. Report on Iraq Details An 'Ever-Deepening' Crisis
U.S. Airstrike on Insurgents Also Kills 15 Civilians

By Joshua Partlow and Colum Lynch
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, October 12, 2007; Page A14

BAGHDAD, Oct. 11 -- A U.N. report issued Thursday outlined an "ever-deepening humanitarian crisis" in Iraq, with thousands of people driven from their homes each month, ongoing indiscriminate killings and "routine torture" in Iraqi prisons.

Also Thursday, a U.S. airstrike in Iraq killed 15 civilians -- nine women and six children -- and 19 suspected insurgents, the military said. "We regret that civilians are hurt or killed while Coalition forces search to rid Iraq of terrorism," Maj. Brad Leighton, a U.S. military spokesman, said in a statement.

U.S. troops targeting leaders of the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq came under fire while approaching a building near Lake Tharthar in Anbar province northwest of Baghdad, and aircraft fired on the site in response, the military said. The bombing also wounded six people, including a woman and three children.

The assessment by the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq, which covered a three-month period ending June 30, found that civilians were suffering "devastating consequences" from violence across the country. It documented more than 100 civilians allegedly killed by U.S.-led forces during airstrikes or raids.

The report described Iraq in more dire terms than last month's congressional testimony from top U.S. military and embassy officials, which stressed improvements in the security situation.

"The killings are still taking place, the torture is still being reported, the due process issues are still unresolved," said Ivana Vuco, a U.N. human rights officer in Baghdad.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/11/AR2007101102138.html

[acmavm]

1. Yep, this administration is run by a bunch of rogue crazed

killers. They must get off at the thought of all the blood they've spilled.

I'm sure they're major source of unhappiness is that they can't do it here to their 'enemies'.