WikiLeaks Revelation Damages U.S.-Iraq Talks On Keeping American Troops Past 2011

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WikiLeaks Revelation Damages U.S.-Iraq Talks On Keeping American Troops Past 2011
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/09/02/311058/wikileaks-us-iraq-talks-troops-2011/


McClatchy reported earlier this week that a recently released U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks shows evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians in 2006, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, and “then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence.” The Iraqi government said today that it will revive the stalled investigation into the allegations. The AP also reports that “some officials said that the document was reason enough for Iraq to force the American military to leave instead of signing a deal allowing troops to stay beyond a year-end departure deadline.” “The new report about this crime will have its impact on signing any new agreement,” said Sunni lawmaker Aliya Nusayif.


links
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2011/09/ap-iraq-plans-new-inquiry-into-2006-us-shootings-090211/
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/31/122789/wikileaks-iraqi-children-in-us.html#ixzz1WhYZIkXM
http://news.yahoo.com/leaked-un-letter-may-trouble-us-iraq-talks-151051038.html

[Ohio Joe]

1. Good, we need to be out of there - nt

[xchrom]

2. while i feel very badly for iraqi citizens -- if this gets us out --

then there will be far less chance will will do such a thing again -- if we stay -- not so much.

[sad sally]

11. Feel bad for the Afghan people too - same stuff is happening there.

Only difference is we say Operation Enduring Freedom, known as the Afghanistan War going on since October 6, 2001, is said to be a NATO operation - yeah, right.

Afghan Investigators Say U.S. Troops Tried to Cover Up Evidence in Botched Raid
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. and ABDUL WAHEED WAFA
Published: April 5, 2010

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan officials investigating the deaths of five Afghan civilians gunned down in February during a bungled raid by American Special Operations forces believe that troops tampered with evidence at the scene, the lead investigator said Monday. NATO officials disclosed that they were looking into the allegations.

Evidence tampering helps explain why NATO officials were so “confused” initially and offered inaccurate accounts of the killings, said the Afghan official, Merza Mohammed Yarmand, of the Ministry of Interior’s criminal investigation division.

The Feb. 12 nighttime raid left three women — two of them pregnant — and a local police chief and prosecutor dead. It was one of the latest examples of Special Operations forces’ killing civilians during raids, deaths that have infuriated Afghan officials and generated support for the Taliban despite efforts by American and NATO commanders to reduce civilian casualties

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/world/asia/06afghan.html?hp?du

[slay]

3. Whatever it takes

to get us out of there is worth it. if it works, Assange is a hero! hell i think he's hero anyways for providing us a transparency neither party D or R will provide.

[msongs]

4. the truth will set us free nt

[Luminous Animal]

5. The oligarchs will have their way. They know no boundaries.

[Broderick]

6. I thought we were out of Iraq and Afghanistan

Shrug?

And we closed Gitmo.


Jobs can be plucked from trees like ripe juicy sweet fruit.


And the air is much more sweet being cleaner.

[mwrguy]

7. Good! Go Assange!

This will save untold Iraqi lives.

[krabigirl]

8. Good for Assange! Bring the troops home now.

[EFerrari]

9. Cool.

[Justina For Justice]

10. Oh, The Poor Oil Companies Will Have to Pay for Own Protection Now.

I certainly hope the WikiLeaks exposure of these horrible killings of civilians will cause the Iraqis to demand that the U.S. troops leave. We only want to keep them there to protect our oil companies, not the Iraqi people.

Too bad for the poor oil companies, they will have to pay for their own protection, rather than U.S. taxpayers footing more of their expenses. (But Xe, f/k/a Whitewater, will be happy to take over the protection business, I'm sure.)

Great going, WikiLeaks!