U.S. convoy's driving questioned in wreck that kills Iraqis

[unhappycamper]

U.S. convoy's driving questioned in wreck that kills Iraqis
By Hannah Allam | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Wednesday, January 6, 2010

HILLAH, Iraq — Dazed and blood-spattered, an Iraqi woman stumbled among the bodies of her relatives Wednesday on a strip of highway south of Baghdad where a U.S. military convoy had struck a passenger van in a deadly accident.

Badriya Hussein whispered prayers over the blanket-covered bodies and then looked at the stricken American soldiers standing nearby. "Why?" she asked. "Why?"

Iraqi forces and witnesses at the scene said the U.S. convoy was driving in the wrong lane when the vehicles collided, killing five members of one family and injuring seven more Iraqis and three American soldiers.

The 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, which is part of the Oregon National Guard, disputes that its convoy was in the wrong lane, calling the incident a tragic accident.

Even if the military's version proves to be true, the damage is done, however. Iraqi TV stations and wire services immediately reported that Americans driving on the wrong side of the road had caused the fatal crash, with one channel inexplicably bumping the death toll to 19.


Rest of article at: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/81776.html

[HopeHoops]

1. Was the "death toll to 19" channel a FOX affiliate station?

Wait! Does Murdoch own Iraqi TV stations? What else could explain such a flagrant fabrication of a "fact"?

[T Wolf]

2. "Tragic accident" or SOP? The US military and its for-profit mercs bring death whereever they

go.

Even to those they are there to "protect and defend."

As long as we are killing them, they will never run out of people willing to kill us.