Bodies in Baghdad Street After U.S. Raids Intensify

Iraq Ministry of Information, via Reuters ^ | 3-26-03 | By Hassan Hafidh

[Oldeconomybuyer]

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Up to 15 people were killed in a poor Baghdad residential district on Wednesday in what enraged residents said was a missile strike during intensified air raids on the city.

Reuters correspondents counted at least 15 scorched corpses lying in the street in Baghdad's Shaab district, amid blackened and mangled cars and rubble from broken buildings. Flames poured from an oil tanker truck.

"There are at least 13 killed and some 30 injured. Two missiles hit the street," local civil defense official Haneed Dulaimi told Reuters. Yelling residents pulled a man with a bloody head from rubble. A pregnant woman was among the dead.

U.S. and British spokesmen said they had no immediate information on the explosions, which, if a missile strike is confirmed, will be a major setback for British and U.S. efforts to reduce public opposition to the war.

Britain's defense minister, Geoff Hoon, told parliament he too had no information.

"Certainly we will look again at ways in which we can minimize civilian casualties," he said, but he warned that the risk of civilian casualties was growing. "As we move forward, those risks are increased and obviously, as the aerial campaign has demonstrated, there are risks to civilians," he said. "But I do not believe that that in any way has slowed down the campaign nor will we allow it to."

Air raids began at dawn on the seventh day of the war and rumbled on sporadically through daylight hours.

As blasts rocked the capital, word filtered out of a major overnight battle between Iraqi infantry and U.S. tanks near the town of Najaf to the south.

[snip]

[wideawake]

Take the gloves off. This is about winning.

[Mister Baredog]

- Up to 15 people were killed in a poor Baghdad residential district on Wednesday in what enraged residents said was a missile strike during intensified air raids on the city

I guess this means if Saddam wants to place car bombs around Baghdad and kill civilians(like his hit squads are doing as we speak) the the international media will declare that we just better forget the whole thing. This is the best example so far that proves the old axiom:THE INMATES ARE RUNNING THE ASYLUM!

[blau993]

Wouldn't it be nice if the pukes from Reuters would apply the same skepticism to statements made by Iraquis that they apply to statements made by our side?

Does anyone doubt that Saddam and his henchment are capable of lobbing in an artillery round and then claiming this is "collateral damage" caused by an American air strike?

[TADSLOS]

Bodies in Baghdad Street After U.S. Raids Intensify

How do bodies intensify exactly? I know their stench will.

[palmer]

ark alert

[Steely Tom]

On the eighth day of the war, the mean bad American military, lead by mean bad George Bush, has at last launched Operation Kill The Iraqi Poor.

NPR is playing this story up big time.

(steely)

[brewcrew]

NPR is playing this story up big time.

Anything and everything to make this administration look like baby killers. Never ceases to amaze me.

[soycd]

What? I thought we were going after the baby milk factories before slaughtering the citizens.

Has the evil US forces messed up the script?

[refreshed]

"U.S. and British spokesmen said they had no immediate information on the explosions, which, if a missile strike is confirmed, will be a major setback for British and U.S. efforts to reduce public opposition to the war."

Bull. Reuters, since the start of this war, has lost any credibility they ever had with me. Once, there was a day when I thought they are just another news bureau, now they expose themselves (through the whole article and other articles) to be as tilted as they come. A "major setback" is Reuters consistently trying to show how the the Coalition has no regard for the average Iraqi. Bull.

[shhrubbery!]

(I posted on another thread:) I saw video on Fox of the alleged missile strike damage to the 'residential' area of Baghdad.

To me it looked exactly like what you see in the aftermath of a terrorist strike in Israel: a crumpled and burnt vehicle, and damage to surrounding shops.

If it turns out to be an errant U.S. cruise missile strike, that's regrettable. But it sure looked like something else to me.

[Roy Tucker]

Judging from the source of this information, the Iraqi Government, the old economy is not all your buying.

[monocle]

Something is fishy here. The coalition has been careful to avoid civilian casualties and it is highly unlikely that two missiles would be off target in the same location in which a gas tanker is parked.

[alnick]

"Iraq Ministry of Information, via Reuters "

Reuters knows better than this.

[Calpernia]

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And the press isn't pounding this info too hard.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Wed Mar 26, 6:47 AM ET

Here is the fuel truck that just happened to get in the way of a "cruise missile"   ...  this story is horsehockey...
 

An Iraqi soldier passes a truck destroyed during recent air strikes on Baghdad, March 26, 2003.

[Enduring Freedom]

Who cares?

Any army unwilling to separate from civilians are the source of any atrocities.

Reacting to the CNN Factor is a fool's game.

Americans want the military to win the war as soon as possible.

Preempt the nonsense by ending the regime at all costs NOW!

[Gumption]

Until I see a crater, this is a planted bomb.

[PISANO]

Personnaly, while I mourn any ENEMY civilian loss, I really don't give a damn!! The object of WAR is to MINIMIZE our military casualties and maximize ENEMY casualties. Simple.....they die........we don't.

[RogueIsland]

NPR is playing this story up big time.

NPR has had almost 100% negative coverage since this thing began. And I'm not exaggerating. I listen to them to and from work and they sound like Radio Saddam.