Posted on 06/01/2006 3:19:46 PM PDT by Axlrose
The BBC has uncovered new video evidence that US forces may have been responsible for the deliberate killing of 11 innocent Iraqi civilians.
The video appears to challenge the US military's account of events that took place in the town of Ishaqi in March.
The US said at the time four people died during a military operation, but Iraqi police claimed that US troops had deliberately shot the 11 people.
A spokesman for US forces in Iraq told the BBC an inquiry was under way.
The new evidence comes in the wake of the alleged massacre in Haditha, where US marines are suspected of massacring up to 24 Iraqi civilians in November 2005.
'Massacre'
The video pictures obtained by the BBC appear to contradict the US account of the events in Ishaqi, about 100km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, on 15 March 2006.
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The US authorities said they were involved in a firefight after a tip-off that an al-Qaeda supporter was visiting the house.
According to the Americans, the building collapsed under heavy fire killing four people - a suspect, two women and a child.
But a report filed by Iraqi police accused US troops of rounding up and deliberately shooting 11 people in the house, including five children and four women, before blowing up the building.
The video tape obtained by the BBC shows a number of dead adults and children at the site with what our world affairs editor John Simpson says were clearly gunshot wounds.
The pictures came from a hardline Sunni group opposed to coalition forces.
It has been cross-checked with other images taken at the time of events and is believed to be genuine, the BBC's Ian Pannell in Baghdad says.
Isn't this the BBC that ran video of alleged prisoner abuses in Iraq that turned out to be a porn flic?
You smell rats because there are rats. This tale is being told by a group called the BRussells Tribunal, which has something to do with an Iraqi doctor claiming to have knowledge of the incident but whose story doesn't quite square...
BBC Reporter Gobsmacked by BBC's Distorted War Reporting
Watts - "BBC Tried to Mould My Story"
Reporter, Who Quit Over Alleged Fake Iraq Story, Found Dead
FBI Accuses BBC of Wrecking Operation to Infiltrate al Qaeda
and so on...
Of course they think our marines shot children in the head.
Even some resident freepers think so. In fact, they think they know it's true because the media told them so, and the media is never wrong nor biased, so it must be true.
I invite you to read their brainfarts scattered throughout the Haditha threads.
Becuase the Left now dominates and has dominated for some time the universities that grind these jackasses out by the thousands every year, sending them into all manner of influential professions, journalism being one of the most prevalent.
Agree 100%.
Good post. Thanks.
One of the things about the "altruistic" left is that they never pass up a chance to get even with somebody for a personal slight, especially is they can smear the entire brethren and get a few of them killed in the bargain.
They think they're clever. They're really just savages.
Refresh my memory if you can.
What was the recent major screw-up at the BBC? It was reported several weeks ago that they committed a major gaffe or error on a story or something. Not much was said abouot it, of course, but it was fairly major in breadth.
Yep. They would have been better off in New Orleans.
Are you suggesting our guys are guilty just because there are lying cowards in the world?
It's sickening to watch so many Americans buy this story rather than standing by our troops until the full story is out and our guys have had their say.
Agree 100%.
I guess we're just not the touchy-feely sensitive type.
Geez, what an idiot (not you - the author McGirk).
Hundreds of thousands?
Put the Kool-Aid down and step back from your half-empty glass.
l want to get Capone.
l don't know how.
Here's how you get Capone:
he pulls a knife, you pull a gun.
He sends one of yours to hospital,
you send one of his to the morgue!
That's the Chicago way!
And that's how you get Capone. --The Untouchables
"As for the hundreds of thousands killed in Iraq I wish for once I could read someone in this forum have a little RESPECT for life. We are, in a sense, SUPPOSEDLY Christians RIGHT???"
Yes we are Christian. Being a Christian is not synomous with being an easy target. All that has to happen for the killing to stop is for them to stop the bombs, stop beheading people, stop the sabotage.
Our guys were attacked and responded. Perhaps they lost all reason and did go on a rampage. I sincerely doubt it and don't particulary care if they did. Its not like they stopped for the heck of it and started going thru houses at random. They were patrolling in a known hotbed and were attacked. The words of the terrorists are given more credence than the men and women who volunteered to go over there and risk their lives to protect ours. The next thing we'll hear is that its our fault we were bombed because we were patrolling there.
Its far far more likely that our enemies saw this as an opportunity to damage us politically and the leaders in place lack the fortitude to stand up to the pressure.
That's kind of a stretch. I think that the situation is supsicious, but only because of what I'm seeing through military channels. Clearly, the U.S. military thinks that something bad may have happened, and is not rushing to support their guys, like they normally do.
The MSM, of course, is lying, biased, and untrustworthy, and you're not going to get any closer to the truth looking at their nonsense. The things to watch are the military investigations, the actions of Marine chain of command in Iraq, and what the U.S. government says. So far, it's not particularly encouraging.
We need to find out what happened, regardless of whether or not the MSM is going to distort the truth for propaganda purposes.
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