U.S. airstrike kills Iraqi judge - police - Bush is just bombing the hell out of these people

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http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-32690320080326

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. airstrike killed five Iraqi civilians including a judge in the northern town of Tikrit on Wednesday, Iraqi police said.

U.S. forces acknowledged that civilians had been struck during a battle with suspected al Qaeda Sunni Arab militants which included strikes from fixed-wing aircraft.

"After the airstrike, coalition forces continued to receive heavy enemy fire as armed terrorists ran from the target and attempted to hide in neighbouring homes using the occupants as human shields," they said in a statement.

"Preliminary assessment indicates that despite coalition forces' efforts to protect them, several civilians were injured or killed during the ensuing gunbattle," it said.

[Loge23]

1. Sounds like the wheels are coming off...

...just in time for the American people to be educated by Frontline as to why this atrocity occurred to begin with.
Now the Green Zone is being attacked regularly.
Better get the choppers ready.

[seemslikeadream]

2. just bombing the hell out of these people

It smells like burning flesh to me



http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/places/germany/brandenburg/brandenburg-001.html

The actual killing facility was located on the ground floor; a number of rooms were used for receiving and collecting the arriving patients, undressing them, and presenting them to the physicians. The gas chamber and the crematorium were on the same floor. The Brandenburg gas chamber was disguised as a shower room, but at first no showerheads were installed and patients were therefore told that they were entering an "inhalation room" for therapeutic reasons. Only later were showerheads added. A small adjacent room served as storage for the carbon monoxide tanks, and, from there, physicians could operate the valve that allowed the gas to enter the gas chamber.<22> The crematorium was located next to the gas chamber and consisted of two mobile ovens attached to the chimney of the building and heated with oil. But the chimney was too low for this task, and flames often escaped from the top. In addition, an unpleasant smell of burning flesh engulfed the city. In about July 1940, the crematorium was moved due to these problems. The mobile ovens were set up in an isolated house surrounded by a high wooden fence and located about three miles from town, and the corpses were driven there in a post office van at night.<23>" (Friedlander, 88-90)

[KansDem]

3. OK, the article is unclear about who said this...

"After the airstrike, coalition forces continued to receive heavy enemy fire as armed terrorists ran from the target and attempted to hide in neighbouring homes using the occupants as human shields," they said in a statement.

Who are "they?" Are "they" the Iraqi police or US forces?

And I'm always suspicious of these "using civilians as human shields" stories.

[JohnyCanuck]

5. Reminds me of those pesky rebels and traitors to the king

who hid behind rocks and trees. Spitting on the rules of civilized warfare as conducted by gentlemen, they refused to form up in open fields in neat squares which would have made them suitable targets for the British canon fire. Fancy that, the terrorists ran from the target and attempted to hide in neighbouring homes. Now who could have expected that. Too bad for our side that they didn't stand their ground on the target and allow themselves to be wiped out by the depleted uranium laced rounds from the A10s and helicopter gunships. But then that's urban warfare for you I suppose. No one said it was going to be easy, except for Rummy, Dick Cheney and the Chimp in Chief (and the rest of the neocon warmongers who mostly have never worn a uniform).

[Supersedeas]

4. flying blind like a canary in a coal mine