Cables Reveal 2006 Summary Execution of Civilian Family in Iraq

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Cables Reveal 2006 Summary Execution of Civilian Family in Iraq


Women and children had their hands tied behind their back and were shot in the head in house raid, which was covered up by the military


As revealed by a State Department diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks last week, US forces committed a heinous war crime during a house raid in Iraq in 2006, wherein one man, four women, two children, and three infants were summarily executed.


The cable excerpts a letter written by Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions, addressed to then Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. American troops approached the home of Faiz Harrat Al-Majma’ee, a farmer living in central Iraq, to conduct a house raid in search of insurgents in March of 2006.


“It would appear that when the MNF [Multinational Forces] approached the house,” Alston wrote, “shots were fired from it and a confrontation ensued” before the “troops entered the house, handcuffed all residents and executed all of them.” Mr. Faiz Hratt Khalaf, (aged 28), his wife Sumay’ya Abdul Razzaq Khuther (aged 24), their three children Hawra’a (aged 5) Aisha ( aged 3) and Husam (5 months old), Faiz’s mother Ms. Turkiya Majeed Ali (aged 74), Faiz’s sister (name unknown), Faiz’s nieces Asma’a Yousif Ma’arouf (aged 5 years old), and Usama Yousif Ma’arouf (aged 3 years), and a visiting relative Ms. Iqtisad Hameed Mehdi (aged 23) were killed during the raid.


Alston’s letter reveals that a US airstrike was launched on the house presumably to destroy the evidence, but that “autopsies carried out at the Tikrit Hospital’s morgue revealed that all corpses were shot in the head and handcuffed.”


The details revealed in the cable are a valuable insight into how many of these house raids turn out. The raids, often carried out in the middle of the night, have become one of the primary strategies of the US war in Afghanistan, with tens of thousands orchestrated just in the last year.


In one notable and comparable incident in February of 2010, US Special Operations Forces surrounded a house in a village in the Paktia Province in Afghanistan. Two civilian men exited the home to ask why they had been surrounded and were shot and killed. US forces then shot and killed three female relatives (a pregnant mother of ten, a pregnant mother of six, and a teenager).


Instead of calling in an airstrike to hide the evidence, US troops, realizing their mistake, lied and tampered with the evidence at the scene.



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If there were reliable evidence that really happened the military would have arrested and tried the patrol, as they have done with others.
 
If there were reliable evidence that really happened the military would have arrested and tried the patrol, as they have done with others.
Idiot, the first link in the post is of the actual State Department cable.
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Wow.

Thank you for posting this.

If this is typical of things that are being done in our names we have much to be ashamed of and something must be done about it. Is our military turning into something likened to the Waffen SS?
 
If there were reliable evidence that really happened the military would have arrested and tried the patrol, as they have done with others.
Idiot, the first link in the post is of the actual State Department cable.
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The cable makes an assumption. No evidence is provided, no request for fact finding. You do know the difference between an assumption and facts right?
 
If there were reliable evidence that really happened the military would have arrested and tried the patrol, as they have done with others.
Idiot, the first link in the post is of the actual State Department cable.
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The cable makes an assumption. No evidence is provided, no request for fact finding. You do know the difference between an assumption and facts right?
An assumption is what the left claims is fact.
 
If there were reliable evidence that really happened the military would have arrested and tried the patrol, as they have done with others.
Idiot, the first link in the post is of the actual State Department cable.
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What does that prove?

An activist sent a letter, which was then forwarded. I agree this is evidence and cause for an investigation, but how is this proof?
 
If there were reliable evidence that really happened the military would have arrested and tried the patrol, as they have done with others.
Idiot, the first link in the post is of the actual State Department cable.
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What does that prove?

An activist sent a letter, which was then forwarded. I agree this is evidence and cause for an investigation, but how is this proof?
Leftist wishful thinking.

Synthia desperately needs for our military to be bloodthirsty babykillers.
 
Idiot, the first link in the post is of the actual State Department cable.
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What does that prove?

An activist sent a letter, which was then forwarded. I agree this is evidence and cause for an investigation, but how is this proof?
Leftist wishful thinking.

Synthia desperately needs for our military to be bloodthirsty babykillers.

Sorta like when he touted Jack Murtha's bullshit claim?
 
According to the information received, American troops approached Mr. Faiz's home in the early hours of 15 March 2006. It would appear that when the MNF approached the house, shots were fired from it and a confrontation ensued for some 25 minutes. The MNF troops entered the house, handcuffed all residents and executed all of them. After the initial MNF intervention, a US air raid ensued that destroyed the house.

Iraqi TV stations broadcast from the scene and showed bodies of the victims (i.e. five children and four women) in the morgue of Tikrit. Autopsies carries out at the Tikrit Hospital's morgue revealed that all corpses were shot in the head and handcuffed.
I am aware that the MNF confirmed that an air raid took place that day in Balad and that it caused an unconfirmed number of casualties.

The US military attacked the house to capture members of Mr. Faiz Harrat Al-Majma'ee's family on the basis that they were allegedly involved in the killing of two MNF soldiers who were killed between 6 to 11 March 2006 in the Al Haweeja area. The US military was further reported in the media as stating that MNF troops attacked the house in question to capture "a foreign fighter facilitator for the Al Qaeda in Iraq network". Other reports indicate that over the past five months, there have been a significant number of lethal incidents in which the MNF is alleged to have used excessive force to respond to perceived threats either at checkpoints or by using air bombing in civilian areas.
 
According to the information received, American troops approached Mr. Faiz's home in the early hours of 15 March 2006. It would appear that when the MNF approached the house, shots were fired from it and a confrontation ensued for some 25 minutes. The MNF troops entered the house, handcuffed all residents and executed all of them. After the initial MNF intervention, a US air raid ensued that destroyed the house.

Iraqi TV stations broadcast from the scene and showed bodies of the victims (i.e. five children and four women) in the morgue of Tikrit. Autopsies carries out at the Tikrit Hospital's morgue revealed that all corpses were shot in the head and handcuffed.
I am aware that the MNF confirmed that an air raid took place that day in Balad and that it caused an unconfirmed number of casualties.

The US military attacked the house to capture members of Mr. Faiz Harrat Al-Majma'ee's family on the basis that they were allegedly involved in the killing of two MNF soldiers who were killed between 6 to 11 March 2006 in the Al Haweeja area. The US military was further reported in the media as stating that MNF troops attacked the house in question to capture "a foreign fighter facilitator for the Al Qaeda in Iraq network". Other reports indicate that over the past five months, there have been a significant number of lethal incidents in which the MNF is alleged to have used excessive force to respond to perceived threats either at checkpoints or by using air bombing in civilian areas.

Serious allegations.

Where's the proof?
 
According to the information received, American troops approached Mr. Faiz's home in the early hours of 15 March 2006. It would appear that when the MNF approached the house, shots were fired from it and a confrontation ensued for some 25 minutes. The MNF troops entered the house, handcuffed all residents and executed all of them. After the initial MNF intervention, a US air raid ensued that destroyed the house.

Iraqi TV stations broadcast from the scene and showed bodies of the victims (i.e. five children and four women) in the morgue of Tikrit. Autopsies carries out at the Tikrit Hospital's morgue revealed that all corpses were shot in the head and handcuffed.
I am aware that the MNF confirmed that an air raid took place that day in Balad and that it caused an unconfirmed number of casualties.

The US military attacked the house to capture members of Mr. Faiz Harrat Al-Majma'ee's family on the basis that they were allegedly involved in the killing of two MNF soldiers who were killed between 6 to 11 March 2006 in the Al Haweeja area. The US military was further reported in the media as stating that MNF troops attacked the house in question to capture "a foreign fighter facilitator for the Al Qaeda in Iraq network". Other reports indicate that over the past five months, there have been a significant number of lethal incidents in which the MNF is alleged to have used excessive force to respond to perceived threats either at checkpoints or by using air bombing in civilian areas.

Serious allegations.

Where's the proof?
In the information received. Very first line.
 
According to the information received, American troops approached Mr. Faiz's home in the early hours of 15 March 2006. It would appear that when the MNF approached the house, shots were fired from it and a confrontation ensued for some 25 minutes. The MNF troops entered the house, handcuffed all residents and executed all of them. After the initial MNF intervention, a US air raid ensued that destroyed the house.

Iraqi TV stations broadcast from the scene and showed bodies of the victims (i.e. five children and four women) in the morgue of Tikrit. Autopsies carries out at the Tikrit Hospital's morgue revealed that all corpses were shot in the head and handcuffed.
I am aware that the MNF confirmed that an air raid took place that day in Balad and that it caused an unconfirmed number of casualties.

The US military attacked the house to capture members of Mr. Faiz Harrat Al-Majma'ee's family on the basis that they were allegedly involved in the killing of two MNF soldiers who were killed between 6 to 11 March 2006 in the Al Haweeja area. The US military was further reported in the media as stating that MNF troops attacked the house in question to capture "a foreign fighter facilitator for the Al Qaeda in Iraq network". Other reports indicate that over the past five months, there have been a significant number of lethal incidents in which the MNF is alleged to have used excessive force to respond to perceived threats either at checkpoints or by using air bombing in civilian areas.

Serious allegations.

Where's the proof?
In the information received. Very first line.

All this stems from one activist who wrote a letter. So far there is no proof that things happened the way he says they did. Who handcuffed the women and children? Who shot them? Who saw this happen?
 
Let us assume (simply for the sake of discussion, because I wouldn't actually assume it for any other purpose) that the MNF did the deed speculated about in the cable.

Which nations had forces involved in that operation?

Were there or were there not any American military forces involved?

Evidence for that?

And the airstrike. It is ASSUMED that it was for the purpose of a coverup. But is there any EVIDENCE for that rank speculation?

Couldn't an airstrike have been called in for --- spit-balling here --- legitimate reasons?

It is no surprise that a scumbag like SimplyAssholic would pounce on this WikiLeak shit as "proof" that America and its military deserved to be hated and condemned. In his world view, guilt must be presumed whenever it suits his pissy little agenda.

It is also no surprise that the legitimate questions about his sordid presuppositions literally jump off the page. He is that transparent. SimplyAssholic is a scumbag. Plain and simple.
 
Let us assume (simply for the sake of discussion, because I wouldn't actually assume it for any other purpose) that the MNF did the deed speculated about in the cable.

Which nations had forces involved in that operation?

Were there or were there not any American military forces involved?

Evidence for that?

And the airstrike. It is ASSUMED that it was for the purpose of a coverup. But is there any EVIDENCE for that rank speculation?

Couldn't an airstrike have been called in for --- spit-balling here --- legitimate reasons?

It is no surprise that a scumbag like SimplyAssholic would pounce on this WikiLeak shit as "proof" that America and its military deserved to be hated and condemned. In his world view, guilt must be presumed whenever it suits his pissy little agenda.

It is also no surprise that the legitimate questions about his sordid presuppositions literally jump off the page. He is that transparent. SimplyAssholic is a scumbag. Plain and simple.
Messenger shooting is so Hannity.


Dumbass. :lol:
 

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