Iraqi Writer on US Killings

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Iraqi Writer on US Killings
by Dave Lindorff | Oct 16 2007 - 9:42am


Buthaina Al-Sasiri is a well-known and prolific Iraqi writer and journalist living in Cairo. In response to my last article (on American killings in Iraq), she offers these thoughts on the wholesale slaughter of Iraqis by American forces, and on the routine and deceptive mis-identification of those killed (males) as "members of Al Qaeda":

You may remember that the Iraqi resistance has called by the US spinners by different names at different stages of invasion and occupation:

1. First they were "dead enders" and "Saddam's hunchmen," etc. That was before arresting Saddam Hussein.

2. Next they were called insurgents, after the puppet government was installed . Insurgency means revolting against a legal, recognized
government.

3. At last they are being called Al Qaeda terrorists. Every anti-occupation group is now referred to as Al Qaeda. Every man killed by the troops is an Al Qaeda leader.

~snip~

(Note from Dave Lindorff: It might better be said that the US military is hiding its slaughter of innocent men, women and children in Iraq—and Afghanistan—behind the word Al Qaeda.)


Rest of article at: http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/10485