US tank fires kill three Iraqi children : Barbaric Uncivilized War Criminal
Posted by musliminsuffer on June 4, 2007
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US tank fires kill three Iraqi children : Barbaric Uncivilized War Criminal
BAGHDAD – Three Iraqi children died when a US tank opened fire on suspected insurgent bombers in the western city of Fallujah, the US military reported Saturday.
A tank crew observed Friday three men that appeared to be installing a roadside bomb on the side of a highway southeast of the restive city and opened fire with its main gun. The army claimed that the men escaped. Only three children were found dead instead.
“Civilians in the area reported two children, ages seven and nine, were killed by a blast in the area by the canal,” said the statement.
“A third, age 11, was transported by civilians to the Jordanian hospital nearby but later succumbed to his wounds.”
The military could not say if the children died as a direct result of their shell and a patrol that subsequently reached the site discovered two separate blast sites.
“Due to dust and debris, the tank crew’s view of the blast was obscured immediately after they fired. It is not clear at this time if there were secondary explosions at either site from IED material,” the statement said.
Three more US soldiers die in Iraq
Three more American soldiers have been killed in action in Iraq, the military said Saturday, after the deadliest month for US forces here in two-and-a-half years.
Two of the soldiers died on May 30, statements said, bringing that month’s death toll to 121, the worst since US marines famously stormed the insurgent city of Fallujah in November 2004.
A third soldier was shot dead in Baghdad on Friday, becoming June’s first casualty, according to US command.
These latest fatalities bring the number of US soldiers who have died in combat and from other causes in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion to 3,474, according to a count based on Pentagon figures.
US troops find rockets destined for Green Zone
US paratroopers raided a Baghdad militia stronghold and found an arsenal of rockets they believe were destined to be fired at the fortified Green Zone, the military said Saturday.
In recent months the US embassy, the Iraqi parliament, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s office and other buildings inside this protected area have been attacked several times by rockets and mortars.
On May 2 four civilian contractors working for the US embassy were killed and five more were injured two weeks later. Vice President Dick Cheney’s visit on May 9 to the embassy was marred by a rocket attack.
American troops found the weapons dump on Friday after a local citizen tipped them off.
“It was found in an area known to locals as the ‘Jaish al-Mahdi Forbidden Zone,’ where some rocket attacks on Baghdad’s International Zone have originated,” a US statement said.
Jaish al-Mahdi is Arabic for Mahdi Army, Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s militia, and the stockpile was found a short distance north of Sadr City, his east Baghdad stronghold.
“The cache contained 20 107mm rocket warheads, three fully assembled 107mm rockets, one 60mm mortar and a sandbag full of blasting devices,” the statement said. Soldiers destroyed the weapons with a controlled detonation.
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