Posted on 11/18/2004 6:05:19 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
BAGHDAD, 18 November 2004 — Arabs voiced outrage yesterday at the shooting of an unarmed Iraqi by a US Marine in Fallujah, calling for an immediate investigation of this war crime.
US and other television channels this week broadcast footage that showed a marine shooting an unarmed and wounded Iraqi at point blank range in a mosque in Fallujah, where a massive US-led assault began over a week ago.
The Arab League called for “an immediate enquiry into this incident and for the soldier who committed this act, considered a war crime, to be severely punished,” if he is found guilty, said spokesman Hossam Zaki.
The US military said Tuesday that it had opened an investigation into the incident but that the soldier involved had been withdrawn from the battlefield.
Zaki also called for investigations into similar incidents in Fallujah and in other Iraqi cities which have not been revealed through the media.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement also condemned the “crime against humanity” saying it showed the values that the United States wants to “install in Iraqi cities and throughout the rest of the region.”
Viewers said images, which Arab televisions aired repeatedly of the killing, fueled growing hatred against America and helped create more “terrorists”.
“I am not a Jihadist, I am just a normal Muslim but such scenes are pushing me to Jihad,” said Dubai-based engineer Abdallah. “We don’t expect this from the representative of democracy in the world.”
“This is one of the things we saw on TV. God knows how many crimes they have committed which we have not seen,” he added.”
Newspapers across the region also vehemently condemned the action.
“This footage reveals the most atrocious war crimes and shameful human rights violations, which are unworthy of those who present themselves as defenders of freedom, democracy and human rights,” said Al-Bayan in the United Arab Emirates. The Abu Dhabi newspaper Al-Ittihad wrote that “international public opinion calls on American to swiftly arrange the trial, in total transparency, of the soldier who committed this crime.”
Violence continued unabated in Iraq yesterday with a car bomb killing 14 people and reports of tens of newly trained policemen being kidnapped. The number of the kidnapped policemen varied with Agence France Presse putting the number at over 60 and the Associated Press 31. They were kidnapped on Sunday as they returned from training in Jordan, one of the few who managed to escape said in Karbala yesterday.
“We were around 65 policemen returning from training in Jordan when around 20 masked gunmen entered our hotel on Sunday morning in Trebil,” said the policeman.
“They hooded all the policemen, tied their hands and took them away,” said Leith Naama Al-Kaabi. “I managed to escape thanks to one of my colleagues. He was frog-walked into my room by a gunman but he managed to convince him that he was a car-dealer and that he didn’t know who I was. The attacker hit me on the head with his gun and I lost consciousness,” he recounted.
“When I awoke, I realized that the one who saved me and my room-mate had not been kidnapped. So we took a taxi and returned to Karbala,” he was quoted as saying.
Fifteen Iraqis were killed and 22 wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his car into a US armored vehicle in the northern oil city of Baiji. Witnesses said the bomb, which blew up in a market area near the center of the city, damaged the US vehicle and wounded some troops, prompting them to open fire.
A US military spokesman confirmed that a suicide bomber had driven into what he believed was a Bradley infantry fighting vehicle but he had no information on casualties.
Clashes between US-led troops and insurgents later erupted in several parts of Baiji prompting the US military to seal off the oil refinery in the north of the city to protect it from attack.
— Additional input from agencies
I don't think the guy the Marine took out was the one that did this to Hassan.
"Arabs voiced outrage yesterday at the shooting of an unarmed Iraqi by a US Marine in Fallujah,"
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Arabs voiced outrage yesterday at the shooting of an unarmed Iraqi by a terrorist in Fallujah, calling for an immediate investigation of this war crime.
Silly me.
Tell them as soon as we get through hearing the outrage from them over innocent people having their heads cut off on national TV, militants shooting from behind civilians, shooting while carrying a white flag and blowing up marines with suicide bombs strapped to wounded fighters, then can they voice outrage over something else.
It other words, outraged Arabs, get in line.
In my humble opinion, they should all be killed...down the the very last one.
"Kill them all. God will know his own."
Bishop of Toulouse to the Papal Knights, during the Albigensian Crusade of the 1200s
in related news, Saudi Arabia's entire royal extended family was arrested for funding worldwide terrorism, including the 9/11 mass-murder events in New York City and Washington DC, and Beslan, as well as numerous homicide bombings in Israel and elsewhere.
POS people!
Yah sure, right after the war crimes trials of all the roaches involved in the beheadings of total innocents!!!
The man shot in that mosque was, only minutes before, shooting at our soldiers. He was a combatant, and he died a combat death.
Margaret Hassan, and those killed before her were not fighting anyone, in many cases, those beheaded were long time residents of Iraq and were involved with HELPING the Iraqi people. I guess these terrorists don't want the Iraqis to feel any gratitude toward those from the outside who are willing to help. They want those Iraqis to stay dependent on the strongmen who want to rule over them the way Sadaam did. Theyare now threatening the Iraqis with death if they try to vote. The Iraqi people ought to show these folks how strong they are and vote in HUGE numbers, ratting out those who would do them harm along the way.
Hypocrisy at it's finest.
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Oh, I thought this was voicing outrage at the beheadings of unarmed hostages by terrorists or the stabbing of an unarmed Jew in Belgium.
Never mind.
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http://junkyardblog.net/archives/week_2004_11_14.html#003759
The link above asks why we've seen no pictures of the slaughterhouses found in Fallujah. Apparently those killers were the good guys and their victims didn't matter.
''We don't show acts of killing,'' Jihad Ballout, Al Jazeera spokesman, said of the decision not to show the slaying of the longtime director of CARE in Iraq. ``We've never done it before, outside war.'' Adnan Abdul-Rahman, a 34-year-old Syrian government employee, was one of those loosely linking the two killings and placing blame for both at the feet of the United States. He said Hassan's death was ``a normal response to the crimes which the Americans are committing in Iraq.'' ''Violence breeds violence,'' he said. Al Jazeera was among the stations airing the Marine shooting. The station said Tuesday it also had received a videotape showing a blindfolded woman believed to be Margaret Hassan being shot in the head at close range, but had chosen not to broadcast it.
Yep. A US Marine defends himself and his comrades, and the hyenas howl! A woman who married an Iraqi and dedicated her life to helping those in need is held hostage and beheaded, and not one peep! In WW2, the Japanese used to fake death and then blow themselves and Allied troops up, just like the terrorists in Iraq. The Japanese in WW2 also used to set up booby-traps using corpses to kill Allied troops. We started doing just what that Marine did. No howls by anyone then. Japan never signed the Geneva Convention either. But then, the media still respected America and our troops, and understood that war is war, not a Sunday School picnic.
But it is "OK" for them to kidnap civilians, hold them hostage, behead them, string them up on bridges and dance around a celebrate like hyenas with wasps in their underwear! But we are just supposed to sit and take it and not defend ourselves! Feh! These terrorists are just as much our enemies as the Nazis and Japanese militarists were 60 years ago and they should be treated accordingly. And the Saudis are certainly no real true friends of the US, they never have been.
As the Cockney's reportedly said to Churchill when he was sending the RAF to Berlin after London was bombed - give it 'em back!
And here I'd thought they were talking about Margaret Hassan.
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