Case study: Iraqi civilian deaths

[hussar]

On the day Human Rights Watch publishes a report on the suspected killings of dozens of Iraqi civilians by the American army, our correspondent visits survivors of one the most tragic and disturbing cases.

To drivers speeding along the main north-south highway through Baghdad, it just looks like a car under a protective cover parked outside a modest house in al-Slaikh district.

It's only on closer inspection that the calamity that occurred in Adil Kawwaz's white Brazilian-built Volkswagen Passat becomes clear.

Adil's brother-in-law Ali Jawad lifts up the blanket to reveal the savage effects of a sustained volley from members of the US Army 1st Armored Division who opened fire without warning on the car on the evening of 7 August.

The bodywork is punctured by more than 20 bullet holes and broken glass fills the inside.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3212156.stm

[izzie]

1. Yes I read that, and it will be what these people recall.

When I was in Saudi they were till talking about the Turks and how they hated them. Well I lived in the South and they were still mad about the Civil War so guess people are the same all over.