By Ahmad Mustafa, Special to Gulf News
Published: September 26, 2008, 23:32
A news story from Iraq a few days ago was based on US Army statement that an air strike on a village near Tikrit killed seven civilians, among them three women and a child.
The military statement said the target was a man believed to be the leader of a bombing network in the area north of Baghdad. Reports quoted Iraqi officials and neighbours as saying that the family whose members were killed in the air strike had no links with insurgents.
The US said its forces surrounded the compound and called on its occupants to surrender after the main suspect, who was armed, had shown "hostile intent" at a doorway and had been shot dead by troops.
After killing their so-called suspect, the troops called in the air strikes. And, as usual, the US blamed the "terrorists" for using civilians to advance their evil - according to the army statement. Can any sane person comprehend this: soldiers surround a house and after killing the man they considered a suspect, call in air strikes to crash the house on the heads of its occupants.
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