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.
http://www.jihadunspun.com/intheatre_in ... /home.php&
Dozens Massacred As US Bombs Iraqi Village
War, News and Stories of Iraq
Moderator: Super Moderators
Jump to
- ON THE AIR ~ AM/FM/XM RADIO
- ↳ Art Bell's Midnight in the Desert
- ↳ Art Bell Classic Shows & Somewhere in Time Chat
- ↳ Art Bell Archive
- ↳ Art Bell Archive 12-2001 to 5-2002
- ↳ Fantastic Forum 'Original Radio Room'
- ↳ Art Bell/The New Frontier
- ↳ Dreamland ~ Whitley Strieber
- ↳ George Noory/C2C AM Topics/Radio topics
- ↳ Ian Punnett/Saturday Host
- ↳ George Knapp/C2C Sunday Host
- ↳ John B. Wells Caravan To Midnight
- ↳ Ham Radio/DXing
- Ship's Galley
- ↳ FFPirates on Twitter
- ↳ Announcements/ FYI
- ↳ Rapa - from the Ship's Archives
- ↳ Ship's Galley ~ Fantastic Forum Community
- ↳ The Crow's Nest
- ↳ First Time Posters Thread
- ↳ Laugh a bit with Ole 68
- ↳ Garden & Galley
- The Starboard Tack
- ↳ UFO
- ↳ Quantum Physics/Edge Science
- ↳ Paranormal
- ↳ Ancient Archaeology
- ↳ John Lear Archive
- ↳ Conspiracies/Black Ops
- USA
- ↳ Economy
- ↳ Media Watch
- ↳ Energy Policy
- ↳ American Survival
- The Blue Planet...
- ↳ Awakening of global consciousness
- ↳ The Natural World
- ↳ News from a parallel universe
- ↳ Environment in Crisis
- ↳ All Creatures Great and Small
- NEWS BREAK
- ↳ Alt News Blog
- ↳ National
- ↳ Global
- ↳ Weird Nooz
- SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- ↳ FF IT Tech
- ↳ Earth/ Weather/ Climate
- ↳ Health
- ↳ Astronomy/ NASA/Physics
- ↳ Technology
- ↳ Chemtrails
- ↳ The 10th Planet
- FANTASTIC PUB
- ↳ The Brig
- ↳ Politics and Government 2014 - Present
- ↳ Food
- ↳ The Murky Bilge
- ↳ Music
- ↳ Religion/Metaphysics
- ↳ Philosophy
- ↳ Books, Documentaries, Movies, TV Shows
- ↳ USS TEXAS - BB35 Archive
- ↳ Poetry Forum
- ↳ Pirates and Skeptics -P&G, etc
- ↳ Photography
- SETI @ home
- ↳ FANTASTIC FORUM ~ SETi Team
- ↳ Team Art Bell
- Archive
- ↳ Third Party Candidates - 2004
- ↳ USA Archive
- ↳ Various
- ↳ Who Needs eBay?
- ↳ Iraq
- ↳ Politics and Government 2010-2013
- ↳ MAD'S Mali Journal
- ↳ Wild Card Thread
- ↳ Bush/Cheney '04 Campaign
- ↳ William Henry ~ Stargates in the Age of Tara
- ↳ Hemp Industry
- ↳ We the People
- ↳ Politics and Government 2004-2009
- ↳ Lost Harbour & Dry Dock
- ↳ Fantastic Forum Productions
- ↳ Star Trek Forum
- ↳ USS TEXAS ~ BB 35 Restoration/Preservation Project
- ↳ Politics and Government Pre-2007
- ↳ Fantastic Forum - Editor's Cut