US soldiers killing civilians, the dead go uncounted
04/24/05
An American patrol roared past us with the soldiers gesturing furiously with their guns for traffic to keep back on an overpass in central Baghdad. A black car with three young men in it did not stop in time and a soldier fired several shots from his machine gun into its engine. The driver and his friends were not hit, but many Iraqis do not survive casual encounters with US soldiers. It is very easy to be accidentally killed in Iraq. US soldiers treat everybody as a potential suicide bomber. If they are right they have saved their lives and if they are wrong they face no penalty...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=632439
from Independent [UK], by Patrick Cockburn
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
An American patrol roared past us with the soldiers gesturing furiously with their guns for traffic to keep back on an overpass in central Baghdad. A black car with three young men in it did not stop in time and a soldier fired several shots from his machine gun into its engine. The driver and his friends were not hit, but many Iraqis do not survive casual encounters with US soldiers. It is very easy to be accidentally killed in Iraq. US soldiers treat everybody as a potential suicide bomber. If they are right they have saved their lives and if they are wrong they face no penalty...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=632439
from Independent [UK], by Patrick Cockburn
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 25. Apr, 10:00
