Stories from Fallujah . more war crimes

[no_to_war_economy]

“We documented this story with video-a family of 12, including a relative and his oldest child who was 7 years old. They heard this instruction, so they left with all their food and money they could carry, and white flags. When they reached the intersection where the families were accumulating, they heard someone shouting ‘Now!’ in English, and shooting started everywhere.”

The family was all carrying white flags, as instructed, according to the young man who gave his testimony. Yet he watched his mother and father shot by snipers-his mother in the head and his father shot in the heart. His two aunts were shot, then his brother was shot in the neck. The man stated that when he raised himself from the ground to shout for help, he was shot in the side.

“After some hours he raised his arm for help and they shot his arm,” continues the doctor, “So after awhile he raised his hand and they shot his hand.”

A six year-old boy of the family was standing over the bodies of his parents, crying, and he too was then shot.

http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000196.php

[Mizmoon]

1. I hope it's not true

we can't take it as true from that source.

[Ani Yun Wiya]

3. Why do you have doubts?

Where did 250,000 people go?
Heard of any head counts among the refugees?

[cvoogt]

2. We don't need to make up stories ...

the truth is awful enough as it is. I hope this isn't true, but there'd need to be corroborating articles from other sources.

on edit: some of the stories in that article sound like they contain a grain of truth, but we're only hearing one side of it. Either way we have to hope some of these stories are false, not for the honor of our own troops but for the sake of the citizens of Fallujah. As these stories pile up, the credibility of the US diminishes. Actually, it's probably already hit rock-bottom.

[clem_c_rock]

4. Dar Jamail's accounts, so far, have carried much more credibility

than anything you would get from the NY Times, Washington Post, etc.

For god's sake, it's pretty much unarguable they've used napalm in Falluja, killed over 100,000 Iraqi's, and the Prisoner abuse goes way up the chain and has basically ruined any credibility we ever had.