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U.S. Military Says Soldiers Fired on Civilians
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Contributor | RP |
Last Edited | RP Jul 28, 2008 08:53pm |
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Category | Investigation |
Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
News Date | Tuesday, July 29, 2008 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | The American military admitted Sunday night that a platoon of soldiers raked a car of innocent Iraqi civilians with hundreds of rounds of gunfire and that the military then issued a news release larded with misstatements, asserting that the victims were criminals who had fired on the troops.
The attack on June 25 killed three people, a man and two women, as they drove to work at a bank at Baghdad’s airport. The attack infuriated Iraqi officials and even prompted the Iraqi armed forces general command to call the shooting cold-blooded murder.
It also bolstered calls from Iraqi politicians to pressure the American military to leave Iraq after this year, when a United Nations mandate expires, unless the United States agrees to permit its soldiers to be subject to criminal prosecution under Iraqi law for attacks on civilians. |
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