US military using brutality, fear, and intimidation in Al-Adamiyah

[Barrett808]

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American soldiers fired sound bombs and shots in the air to dispel the masses in front of the mosque.

Many residents here believe that Shia members in the IGC have told the Americans that everyone in Al-Adamiyah support Saddam, in order to push the Americans to exact revenge against the predominantly Sunni area.

What the Americans failed to understand was that according to the residents of this area, the demonstration wasn't only for Saddam, but just as much for a pure Iraqi government, which thus far the CPA appointed IGC is anything but.

When there was no compliance, they began shooting the demonstrators. In the end, a total of 13 were killed, the number comprised not only of demonstrators but people shopping and walking on the sidewalks.

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Some men who attended the demonstration say they witnessed five Iraqi men who were wounded by the American soldier's gunfire. They say that these five men were taken under a nearby bridge and executed by the Americans. The bodies were found later and taken to the morgue in Al-Adamiyah. The US military here has not commented on any such atrocity.

However, along with this dispatch I submit to you a photo from inside the Al-Adamiyah morgue of two of five, unidentified bodies, each shot at close range, execution style. Gunpowder burns mark the skin on them. One man has been shot at close range in the back of the head.

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[acmavm]

1. Okay, is anyone shocked by this story? Does anyone really not

understand that this is just standard operational procedure when it comes to control and forced submission in any country that we decide isn't meeting our requirements of cooperation and compliance? What is wrong with people in this country? The United States has a long and tawdry history of this kind of crap. Sometimes we send in our own death squads (Tiger Force) and sometimes we have puppet regimes do the dirty work for us (Guatamala).

[FloridaPat]

2. We are doing this everywhere is Iraq. I am totally sick about

what is being done in our name. I found out recently that we killed around 4 million civilian Vietnamese trying to get them to go against communism. We are doing the same in Iraq. Our leaders for the last 40 years should be on trail for war crimes.