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Dozens Massacred As US Bombs Iraqi Village

Post by Iris » 08-31-2005 08:04 PM

Dozens Massacred As US Bombs Iraqi Village
By Omar al-Faris, JUS
and Muhammad Abu Nasr, Free Arab Voice
8-31-5

The battle of Qaim has taken a dramatic turn but the direction depends on whether you believe US propaganda or reports from the ground. While US press claim that their recent bombing raids have killed "high level militants, local eye witnesses tell a much different story.

US forces said they had killed a known al-Qaida militant in western Iraq overnight in air strikes which a hospital official said had killed 47 people. An Iraqi security source claimed at least 56 people were killed in the bombings, but the US military said it did not have an exact number of casualties.

That was the picture painted by American dominated press after US warplanes launched three waves of strikes near Qaim, a staunchly Sunni area in Western Iraq near the Syrian border.

In a dispatch filed at 3:50pm Mecca time Tuesday afternoon, the Qa,im correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short while before, US warplanes had bombed a children,s health care center and neighboring houses in the as-Salman area in the west of the city. Witnesses said that the American aircraft targeted civilian houses and the children,s health care center in the as-Salman area with massive 500-pound bombs. The clinic was completely destroyed as were four nearby homes.

Some 50 local residents, all of them civilian, among them 25 women and children, perished in the savage air raid. At the time of writing, most of the victims were still buried under the rubble. Dr. Salman al-Kubaysi of al-Qa,im General Hospital told Mafkarat al-Islam that the hospital had already taken in more than 35 bodies of victims, among them 17 children and eight women in addition to six people with severe injuries.

"Intelligence leads Coalition forces to believe that Abu Islam and several of his associates were killed in the air strike," a US military spokeswoman said in Baghdad. Abu Islam is a common name among Arab Muslims and the relationship of this individual to Al-Qaida said to have been killed is tenuous at best. US spokesmen had no further information on his identity.

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