Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Innocenti e invisibili

US Marine claims unit killed Iraqi civilians as deserter seeks
asylum
6 minutes ago
TORONTO (AFP) - A former US Marine said his unit killed more than
30 innocent Iraqi civilians in just two days, in graphic testimony
to a Canadian tribunal probing an asylum claim by a US army deserter.
AFP/US Army-HO/File Photo
Marine Sergeant Jimmy Massey appeared as a witness to bolster claims
by fugitive paratrooper Jeremy Hinzman, that he walked out on the
82nd Airborne Division to avoid being ordered to commit war crimes
in Iraq (news - web sites).
Hinzman, 26, claims he would face persecution if sent home to the
United States, in a politically charged case which could set a
precedent for at least two other US deserters seeking asylum in
Canada.
Massey told Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) that men
under his command in the 3rd battalion, Seventh Marines, killed "30
plus" civilians within 48 hours while on checkpoint duty in Baghdad.
"I do know that we killed innocent civilians," Massey told the
tribunal, relating the chaotic days after the US-led invasion of
Iraq in March 2003.
Massey said that in some incidents, Iraqi civilians were killed by
between 200 and 500 rounds pumped into four separate cars which
each failed to respond to a single warning shot or respond to hand
signals, at a Baghdad checkpoint.
At the time US soldiers feared suicide bombers would try to ram
checkpoints, he said.
Searches found no weapons in the vehicles or evidence that those
killed were anything but innocent civilians, said Massey.
He also said marines also killed four unarmed demonstrators, and
more Iraqis the next day during another spell of checkpoint duty
in the occupied Iraqi capital.
"I was never clear on who was the enemy and who was not," said
Massey.
"When you don't know who the enemy is, what are you doing there?"
asked the 12-year Marine, later honorably discharged from the service
with severe depression and post traumatic stress disorder.
Hinzman earlier argued in the tribunal which started on Monday and
was due to end on Wednesday that he gradually realised after joining
the army in 2001 that he could not bring himself to kill another
person.
"I was faced with being deployed to Iraq to do what the infantry
does, kill people, and I had no justification for doing so," said
Hinzman.
Hinzman and his wife and two-year-old son arrived in Canada early
this year, after deserting from his unit, and action which carries
a maximum five-year term in jail.

with severe depression and post traumatic stress disorder.
Azz... Quindi uno anche molto affidabile nelle sue testimonianze! :)
*LOL*
-Stefano

 perseguitato se sono "incidents"? :)
"Incident" significa tanto "incidente" quanto "caso", "evento",
"avvenimento", "episodio", "contrattempo" ecc. Come sapresti, se conoscessi
l'inglese (cfr., per una rapida verifica del tuo "inglese",
400C1EF4...@people.it
).
Namib

Come sapresti, se conoscessi l'inglese
...disse il bue all'asino... :)
*LOL*
-Stefano

 ...disse il bue all'asino... :)
Un testo "inglese" dell'asino: 
400C1EF4...@people.it
: "This shit was
*wrote* *from* ams67". Bye.
Namib

Un testo "inglese" dell'asino
...disse l'asino.... :)
-Stefano

 1 fortuito; probabile; inerente
Come aggettivo, mammalucco. Come "sostantivo dà "caso, avvenimento".
Memento: 
400C1EF4...@people.it
 . Bye.
Namib

 ...disse l'asino.... :)
400C1EF4...@people.it
: "This shit was *wrote* *from* ams67". Bye.
Eclissati, suvvia.
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