The AP Admits That US Did Kill Some "Suspected" Terrorists
The Associated Press actually published a story saying that US soldiers in Iraq have actually killed some terrorists:
“US Airstrike Kills 8 Suspected Insurgents Near Bagdad”
“BAGHDAD, Iraq — A U.S. airstrike killed eight suspected terrorists and destroyed a building south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Friday. The attack occurred Thursday night in Arab Jabour, a mostly Sunni Muslim suburb south of Baghdad. American troops came under "heavy enemy fire during a raid targeting Al Qaeda in Iraq terrorists and foreign fighter facilitators," the U.S. military said in a statement. Coalition aircraft swooped in, dropping precision bombs on a building where eight suspects had barricaded themselves, the statement said. All eight were killed. No U.S. forces or Iraqi civilians were injured in the attack, the military said. An Iraqi army officer, who asked for anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to media, confirmed the raid and number of people killed. He added that Iraqi soldiers did not take part in the clashes.”
Of course, the rest of the article is dedicated to supposed mistakes made by American forces, including an accompanying picture of “a man injured in a US Army air raid…in a hospital in Fallujah….”
“A separate U.S. airstrike hit a Kurdish position in northern Iraq, killing at least five Kurdish troops and wounding six, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Friday.
Kurdish officials put the casualty toll at eight killed and six wounded, and said the men were guarding a branch of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan — led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a key supporter of U.S. efforts in Iraq.
The U.S. military said the attack was launched after ground forces identified armed men in a bunker near a building they thought was being used to make bombs. The troops called for the men to put down their weapons in Arabic and Kurdish and fired warning shots before helicopters fired at the bunker, the military said.”
No word from the “crack” reporters for the Associated Press as to why the soldiers did not put down their arms when told to, why they didn’t communicate who they were, or why the Kurdish authorities didn’t say who they were, OR if the men were confirmed to be Kurdish or Iraqi at all, for that matter. It’s not like they haven’t found foreign fighters in Iraq before. Is it possible that they didn’t speak Kurdish or Arabic? Hmmm.
“US Airstrike Kills 8 Suspected Insurgents Near Bagdad”
“BAGHDAD, Iraq — A U.S. airstrike killed eight suspected terrorists and destroyed a building south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Friday. The attack occurred Thursday night in Arab Jabour, a mostly Sunni Muslim suburb south of Baghdad. American troops came under "heavy enemy fire during a raid targeting Al Qaeda in Iraq terrorists and foreign fighter facilitators," the U.S. military said in a statement. Coalition aircraft swooped in, dropping precision bombs on a building where eight suspects had barricaded themselves, the statement said. All eight were killed. No U.S. forces or Iraqi civilians were injured in the attack, the military said. An Iraqi army officer, who asked for anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to media, confirmed the raid and number of people killed. He added that Iraqi soldiers did not take part in the clashes.”
Of course, the rest of the article is dedicated to supposed mistakes made by American forces, including an accompanying picture of “a man injured in a US Army air raid…in a hospital in Fallujah….”
“A separate U.S. airstrike hit a Kurdish position in northern Iraq, killing at least five Kurdish troops and wounding six, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Friday.
Kurdish officials put the casualty toll at eight killed and six wounded, and said the men were guarding a branch of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan — led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a key supporter of U.S. efforts in Iraq.
The U.S. military said the attack was launched after ground forces identified armed men in a bunker near a building they thought was being used to make bombs. The troops called for the men to put down their weapons in Arabic and Kurdish and fired warning shots before helicopters fired at the bunker, the military said.”
No word from the “crack” reporters for the Associated Press as to why the soldiers did not put down their arms when told to, why they didn’t communicate who they were, or why the Kurdish authorities didn’t say who they were, OR if the men were confirmed to be Kurdish or Iraqi at all, for that matter. It’s not like they haven’t found foreign fighters in Iraq before. Is it possible that they didn’t speak Kurdish or Arabic? Hmmm.
Labels: iraq, war on terror
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