AZrailwhale
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Why do you spend your time telling easily refuted lies? Most of the vehicles in the Highway of death were abandoned before being destroyed, the casualties were almost exclusively military according to correspondents from multiple countries here are a few excerpts from the Wikki article: "Wrong.
The 9/11 attack was in retaliation for the Highway of Death massacre of civilians by the US, and had nothing to do with religion.
The attackers were not religious at all, and were known to drink alcohol and gamble.
There was plenty of time to evacuate, so the civilians were not targeted.
The only ones who died just failed to leave before collapse.
neral Norman Schwarzkopf stated in 1995:
According to the Foreign Policy Research Institute, however, "appearances were deceiving"The first reason why we bombed the highway coming north out of Kuwait is because there was a great deal of military equipment on that highway, and I had given orders to all my commanders that I wanted every piece of Iraqi equipment that we possibly could destroy. Secondly, this was not a bunch of innocent people just trying to make their way back across the border to Iraq. This was a bunch of rapists, murderers and thugs who had raped and pillaged downtown Kuwait City and now were trying to get out of the country before they were caught.
Photojournalist Peter Turnley published photographs of mass burials at the scene. Turnley wrote:Postwar studies found that most of the wrecks on the Basra roadway had been abandoned by Iraqis before being strafed and that actual enemy casualties were low. Further, opinion surveys showed that American support for the war was largely unaffected by the images. (Arab and Muslim public opinion was, of course, another matter, about which Powell may have been rightly concerned.)
Time magazine commented:I flew from my home in Paris to Riyadh when the ground war began and arrived at the "mile of death" very early in the morning on the day the war stopped. Few other journalists were there when I arrived at this incredible scene, with carnage that was strewn all over. On this mile stretch were cars and trucks with wheels still turning and radios still playing. Bodies were scattered along the road. Many have asked how many people died during the war with Iraq, and the question has never been well answered. That first morning, I saw and photographed a U.S. military "graves detail" burying many bodies in large graves. I don't recall seeing many television images of these human consequences. Nor do I remember many photographs of these casualties being published.
The pictures were among the most stunning to come out of the gulf war: mile after mile of burned, smashed, shattered vehicles of every description—tanks, armored cars, trucks, autos, even stolen Kuwaiti fire trucks—littering the highway from Kuwait City to Basra. To some Americans, the pictures were also sickening. [...] After the war, correspondents did find some cars and trucks with burned bodies, but also many vehicles that had been abandoned. Their occupants had fled on foot, and the American planes often did not fire at them.
