New US Attack on Civilians Feeds Calls for Iraqi Withdrawl

[peace4all]

New US Attack on Civilians Feeds Calls for Iraqi Withdrawl
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0110-01.htm


Published on Monday, January 10, 2005 by the Financial Times/UK

Second US Attack on Civilians Feeds Calls for Iraq Withdrawal

by Stephen Negus in Baghdad

BAGHDAD - US soldiers mistakenly opened fire on Iraqi police and civilians after an ambush south of Baghdad yesterday, killing five people.

The incident came less than 24 hours after a mis-aimed US bomb was dropped on a home in the north of the country, killing another five Iraqis.

Combined, the incidents will feed calls that US forces set a date for their withdrawal, a demand made by several Iraqi political factions during the run-up to the January 30 elections.

On Saturday the conservative Sunni organisation, the Association of Muslim Scholars, joined the calls after meeting US representatives to demand a timetable for withdrawal. The group was reported to have said it would abandon its election boycott in return for a departure date for US forces.


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[Deja Q]

1. $50 says * is telling the troop commanders to do this... to actively

encourage public dissent to get 'em out...

Then, shortly later and what lovely timing too, Iran and Syria and who knows whom will come after us with their supposed or real WMDs... Or Patriot Act II...