US troops handcuffed and then shot children and elderly in Iraq

[Charrington]

US troops handcuffed and then shot children and elderly in Iraq and engaged in a cover-up.


Air strike called to destroy evidence of U.S. troops murderous action in Iraq

According to a diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks, U.S. troops willfully massacred an Iraqi family in the town of Ishaqi in 2006, handcuffing and then shooting 11 people in the head including a woman in her 70′s and five children ages five and under.

EDIT by Mark: Pic was removed, if you want to see it click the link.

McClatchy is reporting that the soldiers then called in an air strike on the house to cover up evidence of the killings.

This account differs sharply from an official version of the 2006 incident, which indicated that coalition forces captured an al Qaeda in Iraq operative in the house, which was destroyed in a firefight. The WikiLeaks cable, however, corroborates accounts by Ishaqi townspeople and includes questions about the incident by Philip Alston, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.

The cable is dated twelve days after the incident, which took place March 15, 2006. In it, Alston says that autopsies performed in Tikrit on bodies pulled from the wreckage of the farmhouse indicated that all of the dead had been handcuffed and shot in the head.

If true, this action, although not as egregious as the My Lai massacre of March 16, 1968, wherein 347-504 unarmed civilians were shot to death by U.S. forces during the Vietnam conflict, still speaks volumes about war and the atrocities committed for war’s sake.

As history tells us man is capable of great inhumanity to man, and the term “civilized” is simply an ideal and not a reality.

Tell us your thoughts on this allegation and if you think that troops from “civilized” nations such as the United States could, in fact, commit such an atrocity.

Many thanks to McLatchy.com for their contributions to this story.



http://madmikesamerica.com/2011/09/wikileaks-cable-u-s-troops-murdered-iraqi-children-elderly-in-raid/

[Mark]

i dont put a lot of faith in wikileaks

[Charrington]

i dont put a lot of faith in wikileaks

I don't either really but then I don't have much faith in the War Machine either. So many atrocities have been committed, I would not put it past them.



There is Just Soooo much stuff like that going on it's sickening.

[Kilika]

And there is also a lot of lies being spread as well to make the US look bad, both by their enemies, and by antiwar nuts. Wikileaks founder is no friend of the US, at all.

Don't trust Wikileaks or the UN. And seeing the UN got involved, I don't trust the story one bit of it. These kinds of stories really accomplish nothing as it's always a he said she said.

I think it's called propaganda.

[Charrington]

And there is also a lot of lies being spread as well to make the US look bad, both by their enemies, and by antiwar nuts. Wikileaks founder is no friend of the US, at all.

Don't trust Wikileaks or the UN. And seeing the UN got involved, I don't trust the story one bit of it. These kinds of stories really accomplish nothing as it's always a he said she said.

I think it's called propaganda.

Who do you think runs wikileaks?

[Kilika]

The intelligence community.

I don't think it's at all what it is promoted as. I consider it a trojan horse, and all information from it should be treated as suspect till verified. But then much of the info isn't verifiable, so it becomes nothing but rumor and sensationalism designed to stir people up because they know most people only read headlines and hear half of sound bites.

Do you honestly think one guy, Assange, could even come close to running such an operation as being a whistleblower site like that? Are you sure? How can one person pull it off without getting a lot of highups really mad? One guy spilling the multi-government beans, and the world's intelligence community can't stop him? Bull dung. Technologically, I know better.

And how convenient that their patsy is a low ranked military guy that allegedly passed the info. And look how his prosecution has gone. If it's so cut and dry he did all that, what's the deal? They should have tried and convicted already, but instead they aren't getting a court-martial going till September...

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/29/bradley-manning-optimistic-on-brink-of-wikileaks-court-martial/

This guy worked in intellignece as part of his job! It's too pat, sorry. I'm not buying one bit of it, especially with the UN and Amnesty International involved, and it looking like they are trying to make him out as the poor mistreated gay guy.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8616397/WikiLeaks-Bradley-Manning-endured-army-homophobia.html

Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of leaking classified US government documents to WikiLeaks, complained that he was bullied by colleagues because he was gay

[Charrington]

Do you honestly think one guy, Assange, could even come close to running such an operation as being a whistleblower site like that?

No way on earth...

Really what I was thinking was who would benefit by leaking specific information and why. In this case above it would seem clear IF the story is authentic then it's possible that someone or someones wanting the US to inter in to the fray is behind such things.

It's possible like you say, that it's just another outlet for Psyop type info to be released by several different communities to achieve their agendas under the guise of "conspiratorial leaks" - I don't buy it either. I just wonder who and why.