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Posted by Mosley Jones III on 04/06/06 15:07
"JAS" <jasmine1@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:e0pf2j$g1j$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001IXT36/qid=1144012221/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-1704560-8544122?s=dvd&v=glance&n=130
>
> "Uncovered - The Whole Truth about the Iraq War"
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>
> ("...is a chilling expos of the lies upon which the war on Iraq is based.
what lies?
> This DVD reveals that the idea for war against Iraq came to the Bush
> administration on September 11th, 2001. They realized that the fear
> instilled in the US population by the terrorist attacks in New York and DC
> would be a wonderful way to mobilize the US population for war against
> Iraq. The only thing necessary was a justification, so they decided to
> mislead the US population.....")
>
>
> "JAS" <jasmine1@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:e0nf8v$q1d$2@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>> This story horrified NZ the other night for those that watched the news
>> on
>> channel 3.
>>
>>
>>
>> Where has this story gone? Is it being told in the USA?
>>
>> "In one incident a U.S. army squad leader shot the foot off an unarmed
>> Iraqi
>> civilian and fellow soldier kicked a severed head around as if they're in
>> a
>> football match, described Joshua Key, a U.S. war deserter.
>>
>>
>>
>> Speaking to an Immigration and Refugee Board hearing on Thursday, Joshua
>> Key, the first U.S. deserter with combat experience in Iraq to apply for
>> refugee status in Canada, detailed what he said were numerous atrocities
>> committed by U.S. Army he witnessed while serving eight months as a
>> combat
>> engineer in Iraq, according to the Canadian Press.
>>
>>
>>
>> Key, who was told in Iraq by superior officers that the international law
>> guiding humanitarian standards was just a "guideline," said he was never
>> trained on the Geneva Convention.
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>>
>>
>> "It's shoot first, ask questions later," Key, 27, said of his squad's
>> guiding principles.
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>>
>>
>> "Everything's justified."
>>
>>
>>
>> Key, one of five members of the U.S. armed forces seeking asylum in
>> Canada,
>> told the hearing he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and
>> frequently has nightmares over the horrific scenes and the inhuman acts
>> of
>> the U.S. soldiers he witnessed in Iraq.
>>
>>
>>
>> As a member of the 43rd Combat Engineer Company, Key recalled taking part
>> in
>> almost nightly raids on houses of what the military claimed belonged to
>> suspected rebels in Ramadi and Fallujah.
>>
>>
>>
>> Key said soldiers ransacked homes and steal jewelry and money, while
>> superior officers looked the other way, adding that those attacks on
>> seldom
>> turned up anything valuable.
>>
>>
>>
>> During those raids, several Iraqis were shot dead, Key said, adding that
>> there were cases where soldiers "shoot out of fear and invent reasons
>> afterward."
>>
>>
>>
>> Key said he saw beheaded bodies of fours Iraqis beside a shot-up vehicle
>> in
>> Ramadi. He also described seeing members of the Florida National Guard
>> kicking a severed head "like a soccer ball."
>>
>>
>>
>> In Khaldia, a village between Fallujah and Ramadi, Key witnessed one of
>> his
>> "trigger happy" platoon's squad sergeants shoot part of an unarmed Iraqi
>> man's foot off.
>>
>>
>>
>> He also described another horrific scene where U.S. soldiers
>> indiscriminately kick and scream at two hooded and naked group of Iraqis
>> while escorting them to a grassy area to relieve themselves.
>>
>>
>>
>> Asked by Keith Brennenstuhl, the IRB member overseeing the hearing, ruled
>> at
>> an earlier hearing that the board would not consider the legality of the
>> U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, whether he received any interrogation training
>> before snatching what the military called were suspects out of their
>> homes
>> during raids, Key said:
>>
>>
>>
>> "The only thing we were told was how to keep them quiet," Key said.
>> Soldiers
>> cuffed prisoners' hands behind their backs and put hoods over their
>> heads,
>> key added.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Could they breathe?" Brennenstuhl asked.
>>
>>
>>
>> "I guess it wasn't my concern," replied Key, who also said that officers
>> used the hoods with the aim of "humiliating them."
>>
>>
>>
>> Key, who says he went to Iraq as a willing participant believing U.S.
>> intelligence claims that the former Iraqi Saddam Hussein possessed
>> Weapons
>> of Mass Destruction, noted he became disillusioned with the war during
>> his
>> service and thus decided to abandon his contract with the army during a
>> two-week leave from Iraq in November 2003.
>>
>>
>>
>> Of the latest scandals involving the U.S. soldiers' inhuman acts in Iraq
>> was
>> the Haditha incident where the American invaders murdered 15 Iraqi
>> civilians.
>>
>>
>>
>> Ignoring residents' accounts about the Nov. 19 incident in Haditha where
>> U.S. Marines killed 15 members of two families, including a 3-year-old
>> girl,
>> following a roadside bomb that killed a Marine, a U.S. military official,
>> who asked not to be identified, claimed that it was common for Iraqi
>> rebels
>> to fight from civilian homes and structures and place noncombatants in
>> the
>> line of fire.
>>
>>
>>
>> But a 10-year-old Iraqi girl, who lost seven members of her family in an
>> attack by American marines in the horrific November incident, has
>> exclusively given ITV News a shocking first hand account of the horrific
>> Haditha massacre which residents say amounts to mass murder by U.S.
>> invader.
>>
>>
>>
>> According to the Iraqi girl's story, which has been disputed by the U.S.
>> occupying Army, a group of screaming soldiers stormed Iman Waleed's house
>> in
>> the Iraqi town of Haditha spraying bullets in every direction. 15 people
>> were killed, including Iman's parents and grandparents.
>>
>>
>>
>> Although Iman's account was confirmed by other eyewitnesses who also said
>> that the incident, described by human rights workers as the worst
>> massacre
>> of civilians by U.S. forces in the country since March 2003 invasion
>> began,
>> was a revenge attack after a roadside bomb killed only one marine.
>>
>>
>>
>> A November statement issued by the U.S. military claimed that the
>> incident
>> was an ambush on a joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol that left 15 civilians, eight
>> rebels and a U.S. Marine dead in the bombing and a subsequent firefight.
>>
>>
>>
>> But the claim had been rejected by numerous residents' accounts, which
>> confirm that the only shooting after the bombing was by U.S. forces." NOW
>> I
>> COULD ONLY FIND THIS STORY ON:
>> http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/04/01/4562.shtml
>>
>>
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