Chris Floyd

It seems that the Pentagon, that veritable fount of veracity, has probed itself for the alleged execution-style slaying of civilians in Ishaqi, and found that the operation -- which left 11 civilians dead, including five children under the age of five -- was in fact an exemplary feat of arms, strictly by the book (...) We can say that the available evidence gives many deeply troubling indications that some kind of atrocity indeed occurred at Ishaqi. And we can say that key portions of the Pentagon's self-exoneration are flatly contradicted by photographic evidence, and also by the credible testimony from villagers, US-backed Iraqi officials and Western news agencies (including Reuters, Knight-Ridder, AFP and AP) as to the nature of the victims' fatal wounds...

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Baghdad Dweller

This is the shortest investigation in a murder I ever heard about, in less than 24 hours the army cleared the soldiers from the killing, I mean investigating a normal burglary will take a bit longer. Here is the news on Yahoo: U.S. troops cleared in Ishaqi raid probe The soldiers pulled back and called in airstrikes by an Air Force AC-130 gunship, which attacked and collapsed the building, the defense officials said. Video images show the building wasn’t totally damaged, contrary to the US story most of the building was still standing, and the death caused by bullets wounds...

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