Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Altri quattro feriti assassinati a Falluja dai Marines

Cos' sostiene il reporter americano che e' stato testimone oculare  
dell'irakeno ucciso nella *moschea* di Falluja
Marines Killed Four Wounded Iraqi Prisoners: US Reporter
BAGHDAD, November 17 (IOL & News Agencies) – The US pool reporter, who
broke to the world the killing of a wounded, unarmed Iraqi prisoner by
a marine, further revealed that more prisoners were shot dead though
they did not appear threatening in any way.
NBC correspondent Kevin Sites was quoted by the Associated Press
Wednesday, November 17, as saying that US Marines killed three more
unarmed and wounded Iraqi prisoners in a Fallujah mosque Saturday,
November 12.
He added the wounded had been left in the mosque for others to pick up
and move to the rear for treatment. No reason was given why that had
not happened.
The shooting in the Fallujah mosque became public Tuesday, November
16, with the airing of the footage taken Saturday by Sites.
In his report, Sites said the man who was killed didn't appear to be
armed or threatening in any way, with no weapons visible in the
mosque.
Sites said he saw the marine raise his rifle and fire point blank at
the head of a man, who was slumped against a wall in a mosque.
US networks and television channels in other countries have widely
shown Sites' footage, taken Saturday, but halted it in the second
before the shot was fired.
The incident could cause major political problems for the government
of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and his US backers at a time when Iraqi
authorities are seeking to contain a backlash among Sunnis to the
Fallujah offensive.
Rumsfeld in the Dark
The US military promised a thorough investigation into the incident
with the First Marine Division saying in a statement released in Iraq
that the marine "has been withdrawn from the battlefield pending the
results of the investigation."
The military said it wanted to determine whether the marine acted in
self-defense, violated military law or failed to comply with the
international Law of Armed Conflict.
"We follow the Law of Armed Conflict and hold ourselves to a high
standard of accountability," the marine commander in Fallujah,
Lieutenant General John Sattler, said in a statement.
"The facts of this case will be thoroughly pursued to make an informed
decision and to protect the rights of all persons involved," he said.
Hawkish Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, in Ecuador for meetings
with his Latin American counterparts, had little to say about the
incident.
"I've not seen that," said Rumsfeld. "I've been told that an American
general has addressed the subject and any discussion of what may or
may not have taken place which I'm not knowledgeable about would
clearly be handled by the military forces and the leadership there in
Iraq."
Some 10,000 US marines and army forces, alongside some 2,000 Iraqi
national guard soldiers unleashed a long expected onslaught on the
resistance hub on November 8, capping long nights of massive US raids.
The successive raids have caused massive damage in the city, with dead
bodies still littering the streets.
The current offensive looked set to come at a heavy price for the US
military as at least 39 American troops have been killed and up to 250
others evacuated to the US military hospital in the German city of
Landstuhl so far, according to US military estimates.
The US military also said about 1,200 resistance fighters have been
killed in the bloody incursion.
The killing of wounded Iraqi prisoners come as a grim reminder of the
Abu Ghraib abuse scandal where US troops harassed, in all forms and
types of the word, Iraqi detainees.
Washington also said it would investigate the horrible scenes, deemed
by law experts as gross human rights violations, but only few soldiers
were sentenced to jail terms and others are still on trial.
Maysoun Hirmiz, 36, a Christian Iraqi merchant in Baghdad, told the AP
she was not satisfied by an announcement by the US military that it
had removed the Marine from the battlefield and will investigate
whether he acted in self defense.
"They will say or do the same thing they did with the soldiers who
committed the abuses against Iraqis detainees in Abu Ghraib prison,
and they are still free, enjoying their lives while they destroyed
other peoples' lives," Hirmiz said.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7308.htm

Correzione: altri tre feriti...

not happened.
Peccato che non e' stato in grado di dimostrare che erano le stesse
persone.  Oltretutto nella moschea dove era entrato c'erano 5 corpi. Uno
era morto, e gli altri 4 erano feriti. Uno e' stato ucciso. Gli altri 3
no. Possono essere morti in seguito per le ferite ma nessuno li ha
assassinati ne il suo video mostra questi omicidi.
-Stefano

Sei il mio mito!!!
Ti prego continua così!!!