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Posted on 10/12/2007 4:50:17 PM PDT by SandRat
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, 2007 – A coalition air strike yesterday that killed terrorists also claimed the lives of a large number of innocent victims, military officials said.
During an operation to pursue senior al Qaeda leaders in the Lake Thar Thar region, troops encountered small-arms fire from the target building. Responding in self-defense, coalition aircraft engaged the enemies inside the building.
After the air strike, ground forces discovered that 15 terrorists, six women and nine children had been killed. Troops determined that two suspects, one woman and three children also were wounded. Ground forces also detained one suspected terrorist after the strike.
Coalition force medical experts administered treatment to those injured, who were later taken to a nearby military facility for further aid.
A Multinational Force Iraq statement issued today said coalition forces are investigating the incident, which is a standard practice with all incidents involving civilian injuries or deaths.
“We are working closely with local Iraqi officials and tribal leaders to ascertain and provide a full accounting of events. We are further committed to ensuring the needs of those affected are thoroughly respected and provided for,” the statement said.
Army Maj. Brad Leighton, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman, lamented the civilian victims.
“We regret that civilians are hurt or killed while coalition forces search to rid Iraq of terrorism,” he said. “These terrorists chose to deliberately place innocent Iraqi women and children in danger by their actions and presence.”
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq news releases.)
FR WAR NEWS! Sorry, but if the old man (terrorist) is in the house conducting a meeting, all bets are off. I don’t like the idea of women and children being involved in this, but it wasn’t our choice was it? Dad and Mom made that choice.
Coalition? Time to end that. The coalition be us.
“15 terrorists, six women and nine children”
I see that the woman and children have no fathers? Were the women family to the terrorist?
Like all the based reporting coming out of Iraq, there is no way to tell if this was collateral damage or if it was just a whole family of terrorist.
We could have just stopped a breading machine of terrorist or some innocence got cough up in the fighting. There will not be any reporting on the follow up so we will never know the truth.
The point of the article is to show that we kill woman and children. Is there any reason the report could not say “15 terrorists killed with their supporters”? We don’t know that they were innocence any more than we know they were innocence.
Coalition Air Strike in Iraq Claims Lives of Terrorists, Civilians
That’s why they call it “war.
Will Smith; “Oops”
Jeff Goldberg?: “Oops? What do you mean - Oops?”
“Independence Day”
I agree with you. This is what it was all about. "Let's do another up the posterior examination of these evil members of our military." Contempt doesn't begin to describe with I hold in my heart for the left in our country these days.
The terrorists and insurgents do NOT wear uniforms.
They imbed themselves within the civilian population and the civilians do NOT seem to object.
Being able to identify the good buys from the bad guys is impossible.
A recent suicide bomber was a man in a burka, so even wearing women’s traditional clothes is ok with the radical’s style of “war”.
You go and try to sort the flyspecks out of the pepper while under attack.
Get back to me and let me know how you do......
I’m on your side.
After the air strike, ground forces discovered that 15 terrorists, six women and nine children had been killed. Troops determined that two suspects, one woman and three children also were wounded. Ground forces also detained one suspected terrorist after the strike.
I can imagine no one so calloused as to be indifferent to the suffering and death of innocents. That said, however, the fact remains that in war such things inevitably occur. They cannot be wished away.
What would the critics have us do? Should we (in their opinion) forswear the use of force if such force could conceivably result in the injury or death of mere innocents?
That can be an intellectually consistent position only if one is willing to go all the way, and openly embrace the pacifist ethic. For it is impossible to successfully prosecute a war--and there is no reason to even attempt it--if a nation's leaders should conclude that the death of even one innocent person is an unacceptable price to pay.
And for those of us who treasure our hard-won freedoms, it is scary to think that our president and Congress might ever come to such an unfortunate conclusion.
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