Raid in Iraq kills 8; relatives deny terror ties

[thepurpose]

U.S. says forces were fired on; Sunni group calls attack ‘terrorist massacre’

BAGHDAD, Iraq - American troops killed eight people — four of them women — after taking heavy fire during a raid Wednesday on a suspected terrorist’s house northeast of Baghdad, the U.S. command said.

But relatives of the dead disputed the U.S. account, saying their family had nothing to do with any terrorist group.

Outside the pockmarked house, which relatives said belonged to Mohammed Jassim, bullet casings littered the ground and blood stained the sand. Family members cried and consoled one another as the bodies of the women were taken away.

“This is an ugly criminal act by the U.S. soldiers against Iraqi citizens,” Manal Jassim, who lost her parents and other relatives in the attack, told Associated Press Television News.

Iraq’s major Sunni clerical organization, the Association of Muslim Scholars, condemned the raid as a “terrorist massacre.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15034566/

[kangaroo77]

1. 69 died in the last 24 hours

But if you read the media reports you would swear that less than 10 people died.
The truth is being supressed. Iraq is in the middle of a civil war.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MOU737628.htm

[newyawker99]

2. Hi kangaroo77!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: