Iraqi police report of the US murder of family of 11

by **Rigorous Intuition** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:49 am

<a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/world/14139070.htm">Knight Ridder</a> This is a translation of the Iraqi police report obtained by Knight Ridder, including accounts of events not related to the Ishaqi raid. In the name of God, the most merciful This is the morning and afternoon events of 15/3/2006 1. Interior Ministry Operations: All forces belonging to the Interior Ministry will go on 100 percent alert status starting Wednesday 15/3/2006 until 1000 hours Friday 17/3/2006. 2. Coordination Center of Beji At 810 gunmen in a white vehicle, duck type (a reference to the local name for a Toyota model) kidnapped the child Mohamed (Badei Khaled) from Samaha school in Beji (map coordinates 617667). 3. Coordination Center of Dujail At 730 a benzene truck burned near Gassem al Queisy fuel station after one of its tires caught fire. The incident burned the driver (Hamed Abdalilah) and he was transported to the hospital (map coordinates 263519). 4. Coordination Center of Balad At 230 of 15/3/2006, according to the telegram (report) of the Ishaqi police directorate, American forces used helicopters to drop troops on the house of Faiz Harat Khalaf situated in the Abu Sifa village of the Ishaqi district. The American forces gathered the family members in one room and executed 11 people, including 5 children, 4 women and 2 men, then they bombed the house, burned three vehicles and killed their animals (map coordinates 098702). They were: Turkiya Muhammed Ali, 75 years Faiza Harat Khalaf, 30 years Faiz Harat Khalaf, 28 years Um Ahmad, 23 years Sumaya Abdulrazak, 22 years Aziz Khalil Jarmoot, 22 years Hawra Harat Khalaf, 5 years Asma Yousef Maruf, 5 years Osama Yousef Maruf, 3 years Aisha Harat Khalaf, 3 years Husam Harat Khalaf, 6 months (Signed) Staff Colonel Fadhil Muhammed Khalaf Assistant Chief of the Joint Coordination Center 3/16/2006 A U.S. military spokesman, Major Tim Keefe, said that the U.S. military has no information to support the allegations and that he had not heard of them before a reporter brought them to his attention Sunday. "We're concerned to hear accusations like that, but it's also highly unlikely that they're true," he said. He added that U.S. forces "take every precaution to keep civilians out of harms' way. The loss of innocent life, especially children, is regrettable." Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=rigorousintuition>Rigorous Intuition</A> at: 3/20/06 12:51 am

by **blanc** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:43 am

The response of Major Keefe can only mean that he does not know where troops and helicopters were at 230 on the 15th. You either know what men in your command are doing, and where hardware is, or you don't.

by **Gouda** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:26 am

Think the US/UK foreign atrocity establishment will ever get a chance to defend themselves at the Hague, as Milosevic was so graciously given? Ahem. Chris Floyd's roundup on this documented massacre: <a href="http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php">www.chris-floyd.com/index.php</a> Also, his link to the photographic evidence (warning, extremely graphic): <a href="http://www.chris-floyd.com/march/">www.chris-floyd.com/march/</a> Knowing this and seeing this - are we complicit if we do nothing to try to stop it? <blockquote>Quote:<hr> Children of Abraham: Death in the Desert Written by Chris Floyd Sunday, 19 March 2006 What happened in the village of Isahaqi, north of Baghdad, on Ides of March? The murk of war – the natural blur of unbuckled event, and its artificial augmentation by professional massagers – shrouds the details of the actual operation. But here is what we know. We know that U.S. forces conducted a raid on a house in the village on March 15. We know that the Pentagon said the American troops were "targeting an individual suspected of supporting foreign fighters for the al-Qaeda in Iraq terror network," when their team came under fire, and that the troops "returned fire, utilizing both air and ground assets." We know that the Pentagon said that "only" one man, two women and one child were killed in the raid, which destroyed a house in the village. We know from photographic evidence that the corpses of two men, four shrouded figures (women, according to the villagers), and five children – all of them apparently under the age of five, one as young as seven months – were pulled from the rubble of the house and laid out for burial beneath the bright, blank desert sky. We know that an Associated Press reporter on the scene saw the ruined house, and a photographer for Agence France Presse took the pictures of the bodies. We know that two Iraqi police officials, Major Ali Ahmed and Colonel Farouq Hussein – both employed by the U.S.-backed Iraqi government – told Reuters that the 11 occupants of the house, including the five children, had been bound and shot in the head before the house was blown up. We know that the U.S.-backed Iraqi police told Reuters that an American helicopter landed on the roof in the early hours of the morning, then the house was blown up, and then the victims were discovered. We know that the U.S.-backed Iraqi police said that an autopsy performed on the bodies found that "all the victims had gunshot wounds to the head." We know that the U.S.-backed Iraqi police said they found "spent American-issue cartridges in the rubble." We know that Ahmed Khalaf, brother of house's owner, told AP that nine of the victims were family members and two were visitors, adding, "the killed family was not part of the resistance, they were women and children. The Americans have promised us a better life, but we get only death." We know from the photographs that one child, the youngest, the baby, has a gaping wound in his forehead. We can see that one other child, a girl with a pink ribbon in her hair, is lying on her side and has blood oozing from the back of her head. The faces of the other children are turned upwards toward the sun; if they were shot, they were shot in the back of the head and their wounds are not evident. But we can see that their bodies, though covered with dust from the rubble, are otherwise unmarked; they were evidently not crushed in the collapse of the house during, say, a fierce firefight between U.S. forces and an "al Qaeda facilitator." They died in some other fashion. We know from the photographs that two of the children – two girls, still in their pajamas – are lying with their dead eyes open. We can see that the light and tenderness that animate the eyes of every young child have vanished; nothing remains but the brute stare of nothingness into nothingness. We can see that the other three children have their eyes closed; two are limp, but the baby has one stiffened arm raised to his cheek, as if trying to ward off the blow that gashed and pulped his face so terribly. These facts are what we know from American officials, American-backed Iraqi officials and reporters for Western press associations on the scene. This is probably all we will ever know for certain about what happened in Isahaqi on March 15. The rest will remain obscured by the murk instigated by U.S. military spokesmen, who are evidently not telling the truth about the body count of the raid, and by the natural confusion that must attend the villagers' description of an attack that struck without warning in the middle of the night. But beyond this cloud of unknowing, there are a few other facts relevant to the case that can be clearly established. For instance, we know that the American troops who caused the deaths of these children – either by tying them up and shooting them, an unspeakable atrocity, or else "merely" by storming or bombing a house full of civilians in a night raid "with both air and ground assets" – were sent to Iraq on a demonstrably false mission to "disarm" weapons that did not exist and take revenge for 9/11 on a nation that had nothing to do with the attack. And we now know that the White House – and George W. Bush specifically – knew all along that the intelligence did not and could not support the public case he had made for the war. We know that the only reason that this dead baby has his arm frozen to his lifeless face is that three years ago this week, George W. Bush gave the order to begin the unprovoked, unjust and unnecessary invasion of Iraq. He hasn't fired a single shot or launched a single missile; he hasn't tortured or killed any prisoners; he hasn't kidnapped or beheaded civilians or planted bombs along roadsides, in mosques or marketplaces. Yet every single atrocity of the war – on both sides – and every single death caused by the war, and every act of religious repression perpetrated by the extremist sects empowered by the war, is the direct result of the decision made by George W. Bush three years ago. Nothing he says can change this fact; nothing he does, or causes to be done, for good or ill, can wash the blood of these children – and the tens of thousands of other innocent civilians killed in the war – from his hands. And anyone who knows these facts, who sees these facts, and fails to cry out against them – if only in your own heart – will be forever tainted by this same blood. *Our webmaster, Rich Kastelein, has provided his usual sterling service in finding all the available photos of the Isahaqi victims and piecing them together with the stories on the case. You can find that package here.* UPDATE: Time Magazine has a story on another murk-enshrouded incident in another village that left 15 unarmed Iraqis dead, including seven women and three children: One Morning in Haditha. <hr></blockquote> Remember them: <img src="http://www.chris-floyd.com/images/stories/Raid%202.jpg" style="border:0;"/> Arrest and prosecute them: <img src="http://www.chris-floyd.com/images/stories/bush-mccain%20hug.jpg" style="border:0;"/><img src="http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/POLITICS/03/19/rumsfeld.nazis/story.rumsfeld.file.ap.jpg" style="border:0;"/><img src="http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20060319/capt.wx10103191753.face_the_nation_cheney_wx101.jpg" style="border:0;"/> Not enough room here to add the rest. edit: i post floyd not really for his overall analysis which i find limited and hind-shortsighted, but for his contribution to the documentation of the event.  Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=gouda@rigorousintuition>Gouda</A> at: 3/20/06 7:38 am

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by **sunny** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:34 pm

Oh dear God. Goddamn them. GODDAMN THEM. When I think- I cry I cry I cry I spent the weekend keeping my nine month old granddaughter Kailyn. Such sweetness, such loveliness, such purity. Her skin is so soft, so rosy and alive. Her mouth is like a little rosebud, always smiling. She looks at me with such trust and love. Are these children of Iraq, of the world, any less sweet, pure and beautiful than my own hearts love? NO NO NO NO NO. Goddamn them..........please

by **snowlion2** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:59 pm

This is my song O gods of all the nations A song of peace for lands so far away This is my home, a country where my heart is Here grew my hopes and dreams for all mankind But other hearts in other lands are beating With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine My country's skies are bluer than the ocean And sunlight shines on clover leaf and pine But other lands have sunlight too and clover And skies are ev'rywhere as blue as mine O hear my prayer, O gods of all the nations A song of peace for their lands and for mine. SONG OF PEACE (Finlandia) Sibelius/Stone- Lorenz Publishing Co.-ASCAP

by **chiggerbit** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:04 am

On a search for two of my lost dogs (one was in heat and on a mission), I was politely ambushed out of the blue by a Republican neighbor, who must have heard that I was adamantly anti-war. Now, I don't argue my beliefs unless "invited", so I didn't start this conversation. His position was that we should trust our leaders because there were "strategic reasons for keeping information secret" (Yeah, I can hear your groans.) Then he commented about how we are hated all over the world. Well, doh! But, he seemed to have no perception about why that was a logical outcome of our actions over the decades. Where, oh where do you start a dialog with these people? I also have a Republican mama, who, if you wave a flag in front of her face, seems to go into THE TRANCE. Also, I had another neighbor pass on to me a paper copy of an anti-immigrant, hate email (I will try to look it up for the record) that his wife had copied off. This was IN ADDITION to another friend's recent annoying email that I posted here. So, even before this event made the boglines (note, not "headlines"), I started a "Why they hate us file." And now I am not holding back. I don't care what these people think of me, I am going to push these kinds of mind-grabbing pictures in their faces. I just pray that I can do it in such a way that they will at least look before they hit "delete". I have copied off the worst of these pictures and I am sending them out to my favorite conservatives. It is time to fight back and disregard the personal consequences. OK, found a comparable copy of the print copy of the immigrant hate email another neighbor gave me the other day. I can't tell you how similar this sounds to the same reason the Danes published their cartoons ridiculing Mohammad. <a href="http://www.eshriner.com/">www.eshriner.com/</a> This is an editorial written by an American citizen, published in a Tampa newspaper He did quite a job; didn’t he? Read on, please! IMMIGRANTS, NOT AMERICANS, MUST ADAPT. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Americans. However, the dust from the attacks had barely settled when the “politically correct! ” crowd began complaining about the possibility that our patriotism was offending others. I am not against immigration, nor do I hold a grudge against anyone who is seeking a better life by coming to America. Our population is almost entirely made up of descendants of immigrants. However, there are a few things that those who have recently come to our country, and apparently some born here, need to understand. This idea of America being a multicultural community has served only to dilute our sovereignty and our national identity. As Americans, we have our own culture, our own society, our own language and our own lifestyle. This culture has been developed over centuries of struggles, trials, and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom. We speak ENGLISH, not Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society, learn the language! “In God We Trust” is our national motto. This is not some Christian, right wing, political slogan.. We adopted this motto because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture. If Stars and Stripes offend you, or you don’t like Uncle Sam, then you should seriously consider a move to another part of this planet. We are happy with our culture and have no desire to change, and we really don’t care how you did things where you came from. This is OUR COUNTRY, our land, and our lifestyle. Our First Amendment gives every citizen the right to express his opinion and we will allow you every opportunity to do so! But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about our flag, our pledge, our national motto, or our way of life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great American freedom, THE RIGHT TO LEAVE. It is Time for America to Speak up If you agree – pass this along; if you don’t agree – delete it! AMEN I figure if we all keep passing this to our friends (and enemies) it will also, sooner or later get back to the complainers, lets all try, please by: eshriner @ 10:29 pm -- YIM: eshriner Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 3/20/06 9:15 pm

by **chiggerbit** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:17 am

BTW, Jeff, is that a picture of McCain embracing Bush? If so, it very much reminds me of the pic of Sun Myung Moon embracing Falwell. Also, note the shadows on the side of his face showing the pathways of the toxic, mind-controlling leaches that have found an entry into his brain. Must be the same slugs that pull Cheney's mouth up into that evil grimace. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"> Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 3/20/06 9:53 pm

by **AlicetheCurious** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:41 am

Chiggerbit, I think what you're doing is an excellent way to get through to those people who still believe that America is a global champion of freedom and democracy, and that only evil people, and the enemies of freedom, oppose it. Very rarely does someone's opinion change overnight. Send them those pictures, send them statistics and information. Send them well-written, well-researched, and easy-to-understand articles. Most people will take a look before deleting, and sometimes actually read the whole thing. The mainstream media's message is only credible if you are almost completely ignorant of the facts. Even if you're a flag-waving Bush supporter, if you've, say, seen the pictures published here, they'll flash into your mind at the oddest times. During a Bush speech. While cuddling your grandchild. Even as you're arguing that America must "finish the job". Etc. Eventually, the cognitive dissonance will become impossible to ignore. You'll ask questions and seek out facts. You'll be more open to talking with those who oppose American foreign policy. It doesn't always work, some people will have way too much invested in their world-view to be able to question it. But the way it starts with most people, is a break in the "separation barrier" between themselves and the victims.

by **BannedfromDU** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:15 am

US and Britain are bombing Iraq and making it look like insurgents. <a href="http://abutamam.blogspot.com/2006/03/sadr-city-massacre-black-operation-by.html">abutamam.blogspot.com/2006/03/sadr-...eration-by.html</a> <a href="http://xymphora.blogspot.com/">xymphora.blogspot.com/</a> <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060314/us_nm/iraq_american_dc_4">news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060314/us_nm/iraq_american_dc_4</a> <a href="http://www.ameu.org/page.asp?iid=159&aid=418&pg=1">www.ameu.org/page.asp?iid=159&aid=418&pg=1</a>

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