Cables Reveal 2006 Summary Execution of Civilian Family in Iraq

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http://news.antiwar.com/2011/08/29/cables-reveal-2006-summary-execution-of-civilian-family-in-iraq

Cables Reveal 2006 Summary Execution of Civilian Family in Iraq
Women and children had their hands tied behind their back and were shot in the head in house raid, which was covered up by the military

by John Glaser, August 29, 2011

As revealed by a State Department diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks last week, US forces committed a heinous war crime during a house raid in Iraq in 2006, wherein one man, four women, two children, and three infants were summarily executed.

The cable excerpts a letter written by Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions, addressed to then Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. American troops approached the home of Faiz Harrat Al-Majma’ee, a farmer living in central Iraq, to conduct a house raid in search of insurgents in March of 2006.

“It would appear that when the MNF approached the house,” Alston wrote, “shots were fired from it and a confrontation ensued” before the “troops entered the house, handcuffed all residents and executed all of them.” Mr. Faiz Hratt Khalaf, (aged 28), his wife Sumay’ya Abdul Razzaq Khuther (aged 24), their three children Hawra’a (aged 5) Aisha ( aged 3) and Husam (5 months old), Faiz’s mother Ms. Turkiya Majeed Ali (aged 74), Faiz’s sister (name unknown), Faiz’s nieces Asma’a Yousif Ma’arouf (aged 5 years old), and Usama Yousif Ma’arouf (aged 3 years), and a visiting relative Ms. Iqtisad Hameed Mehdi (aged 23) were killed during the raid.

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The details revealed in the cable are a valuable insight into how many of these house raids turn out. The raids, often carried out in the middle of the night, have become one of the primary strategies of the US war in Afghanistan, with tens of thousands orchestrated just in the last year.

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[polly7]

1. I'm so glad these cables are being released. God, those poor babies. nt.

[gateley]

2. No wonder the Government is trying to quash Wikileaks - the hits

just keep on comin'!

More shameful secrets. :grr:

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[RKP5637]

4. Makes one proud, doesn't it. n/t

[Mira]

5. I can recommend this in the hope that someone else

has something valuable to say. All I can do is puke - while Cheney is going free with his book tour.
And the soldiers who did this are re-integrating into our society and we are going on as if we did not do this and putting the horrors and the crimes behind us unexamined.

[jimlup]

6. This is so horrible... the US should be accountable for these war crimes

But it won't be. They don't care about having committed war crimes even if when they are exposed.

[Harmony Blue]

7. Wow...no wonder the Iraqi youth and future leaders of that country

will grow to hate the West. We are brewing a dangerous recipe, and it spells disaster for us in the long run. This is disgusting.

:puke:

[Angry Dragon]

8. Sounds like condi rice is guilty of covering up war crimes

she should be charged and arrested
this country salutes the war criminals

getting sick of this shit

[closeupready]

9. Words fail.

:mad: :cry: