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A really really sad story of a 12 years old boy killed by American soldiers
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http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/p...icle_1071.shtml
"Baghdad - It was 10:30 on a sweltering night when 12-year-old Mohammed al-Kubaisi climbed the concrete steps leading to his family's rooftop. The boy held two blankets so that he and his twin brother, Moustafa, could curl up together on the roof for the night, one of their favorite summer habits.
"Mohammed had just reached the top when he turned to watch the military maneuvers on the street below: American soldiers were patrolling with rifles. One soldier looked up in the darkness and saw a figure on the roof, watching him.
"A single bullet exploded into the air.
"Mohammed's mother recalled dragging her son inside and screaming as she held him, his blood pouring onto the floor. She said Mohammed was struggling to breathe when a group of U.S. soldiers slammed through the front door and pushed her aside as they searched the house ...
"...In the case of 12-year old Mohammed, soldiers visited the family to apologize. 'They asked us what compensation we wanted,' Latif, his mother said. 'My husband was incensed. He said he wanted 10 of their men to die in exchange'.
"The couple say the visitors told them a soldier had been arrested for their son's death. A military spokesman, Colonel Guy Shields denied that. Colonel Warren said the soldier who shot Mohammed was from the 82nd Airborne.
Family members insist the boy's death was not an accident. They say Mohammed could have been saved that night, if it had not been for the unyielding soldiers at a checkpoint in the Hay al-Jihad district in south Baghdad.
"...'I tried to rush him to the hospital in my car,' said a neighbor, 17 year-old Yaser Ala, 'They stopped us at the checkpoint because it was nearly curfew time."
"Ala drove back to the house where Mohammed bled to death in the car. They left the boy there until the curfew lifted at dawn, then drove to the hospital to confirm his death.
"Details of Mohammed's death were cited in a report released July 23 by Amnesty International. The London-based organization said it's researchers in Irq had determined that U.S. forces were at times trigger-happy and were ill prepared for policing Iraq.
"Unable to accept the death of his identical twin, Moustaffa al-Kubaisi recently moved to his aunt's house saying he could not bear being at home. In late July, he pooled his savings of 10,000 dinars, about $8, and bought a bicycle as a tribute for his dead brother."
"The death of one boy on June 26 is an almost-forgotten story as US forces continuue to face deadly attacks by armed insurgents. But Iraqis say the regularity of deaths among their own has hardened people's feelings regarding the American occupation.
"In numerous interviews, Iraqis said that more than factors like unemployment, fuel shortages, or elctricity blackouts - civilian casualties have raised their level of bitterness against U.S. soldiers and could prolong or even widen resistance.
"It has increased our hate against Americans," said Ali Hatem, 23, a computer science student at the University of Baghdad. 'It also increases the violence against them. In Iraq, we are tribal people. When someone loses their son, they want revenge'.
"Neither Iraqis nor American forces keep statistics for dead civilians like Mohammed, whose shooting the U.S. military calls a tragic accident." ...
"When asked whethr officers apologized to the families of Iraqis killed during a botched raid in Mansour on July 27, [Ricardo Sanchez, Commander of U.S. forces in Iraq] said, 'Apologies are not something that we have as a normal procedure in the military processes'.
"The U.S. military generally refuses to provide compensation to survivors of Iraqis killed in the crossfire or through misunderstandings, whether at military checkpoints or during patrols ...
"...the military has launched an internal investigation into Mohammed's death 'because it involved a 12-year-old boy, [Marc Warren, the senior U.S. miltary lawyer in Iraq] said yesterday.
"... 'No Americans have visited us to speak about what happened,' said Moustafa Ahmed, 28, who says his 24 year old brother, Uday Ahmed, was shot by a soldier from the 82 Airborne Division, 'And we don't feel we can go speak to them'.
"Uday had been fixing a neighbor's car to earn money. He walked a few blocks from his house in the southwest Baghdad district of Saidiya to an auto repair yard to look for a spare part. Walking across the yard, he held the car's ignition distributor, a metal object about the size and shape of a hand grenade.
"He was clearly visible from the roof of Doralt Police Station that abuts the repair yard. There, 82nd Airborne soldiers are posted behind sandbags, rifles at the ready.
"From atop the roof, a soldier spotted Uday Ahmed and fired. Details of what happened came from several witnesses in the yhard who were interviewed Thursday.
"... 'I heard the bang of a rifle shot and swung around,' said Ali Hassan, 40, who runs an outdoor falafel stand about 20 feet from where Uday stood. 'This man was holding a car part. He doubled over bleeding and then glanced up. At that moment, a second shot came from the roof of the police station ... It hit him and he dropped. There was blood everywhere.'
"The soldiers posted at the Dorah Police Station would not comment on Uday Ahmed's death and referred a reporter to the division's base two blocks away. Commanders there declined to discuss the case."
Well no wonder why Iraqis hate American soldiers
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| mndeg |
| i feel sorry for Iraqis in general |
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| arctic |
| Why do you keep posting political/news articles in the chillout room? There's a political/debate forum for a reason, you know. |
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| AussieTrance |
| sigh, take it somewhere else, seriously |
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| ahlamalek |
| yeah, we live in our own trance driven bubble... we don't care of the real word. go hide it in the political forum... |
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| arctic |
| quote: | Originally posted by ahlamalek
yeah, we live in our own trance driven bubble... we don't care of the real word. go hide it in the political forum... |
I'm asuming that was directed at me. How is posting something in the correct forum 'not caring of the real world'?
How is posting something in the political forum 'hiding' it? |
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| Massive84 |
it's sad yes
but you can't blame the soldiers since most of them are age 16-20 and are scared like .
only one to blame is the adminstration of usa. |
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| DJYaNiK |
They should all convert to Trance.
Poor saps don't know yet... Trance solves all. |
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| cap |
| lol, civilian casualities for the most part are used as anti-US propoganda for the muslim world. people don't care that the child is dead - only that the US was involved. |
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| hardstyle |
Well thats true :-/
Muislims hates American becouse what is going on in America.We promote everything what muslims hate |
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| AnotherWay83 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Massive84
it's sad yes
but you can't blame the soldiers since most of them are age 16-20 and are scared like .
only one to blame is the adminstration of usa. |
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| Bloodflower |
well to be true, go and ask ppl world wide!!!
that say again "IRAQs" hate americans ;)
its totally equal where u ask, believe me! |
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