They threw a black body bag on the ground and said: ‘This is for your son’

[kpete]

The Sunday Times March 26, 2006


Iraqis killed by US troops ‘on rampage’
Hala Jaber and Tony Allen-Mills, New York

Claims of atrocities by soldiers mount

.............

Last week Jalal Abdul Rahman told this newspaper about the death in January of his 12- year-old son Abdul. It was a Sunday evening and father and son were driving home after buying a new game for the boy’s PlayStation.

They were a few hundred yards from their home in the Karkh neighbourhood of Baghdad when — according to Rahman — US forces opened fire on the car, killing Abdul.

Soldiers approached the car and told Rahman he had failed to stop when ordered to do so. Rahman said he had never heard an order to stop. The soldiers searched the car and, as they departed, they threw a black body bag on the ground.

“They said, ‘This is for your son,’ and they left me there with my dead son,” he added.

Rahman claimed he had had nothing to do with the insurgency until that moment. “But this is America, the so-called guardian of humanity, and killing people for them is like drinking water. I shall go after them until I avenge the blood of my son.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2103695_1,00.html

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. As we've been saying for years.... and so the "enemy" gets another

free one..... christ almighty.

[rodeodance]

2. We are avenging the deaths of 9/11 (way past that)--and they will avenge

the deaths of their relatives. When is enough ENOUGH!

I shall go after them until I avenge the blood of my son.”

[mdmc]

5. violence begets violence

:kick:

[shance]

23. Yes, the 9/11 they had nothing to do with and our government and this

Administration did.

[twiterpatted]

3. Lovely,

[newyawker99]

27. Hi twiterpatted!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[twiterpatted]

36. thank you, thank you, no no please sit.

[converted_democrat]

4. I can't blame them for hating us.. I hate us.. n/t

edited- because I wanted to..

[babylonsister]

8. With stories like this, I hate us, too.

:cry:

[zulchzulu]

6. Ah yes...freedom is on the march

That is really disturbing.

I support the troops...with the assumption that they are doing the best they can under the conditions they were sent to an unneeded war and should leave very soon...but this is really disturbing if true.

[CrispyQ]

7. "They hate us for our freedoms."

No you dumbass, they hate us for our policies.

[teach1st]

9. See, there is good news

The good news is you can purchase PlayStations for your children in Iraq. The bad news is...

[SammyWinstonJack]

28. Your son won't be able to play it because some AMERICAN SOLDIERS

KILLED HIM!

[opihimoimoi]

10. We train to KILL...where is the training to THINK Consequences?

[mntleo2]

11. What If An American Had Been Treated This Way?

GAWD! This is despicable. Three years ago I knew this was a mistake. Now I see the folly every day.

Cat In Seattle

[radfringe]

12. place your bets

when will we here the right-wingers use this "logic" to spin the civil/sectarian war?

"let them kill each other over there so they won't kill us over here"

[MrPrax]

13. Best Part...

All the 'water drinkers' will be Stateside shortly. Hope they can 'turn it off' and not see too many enemies...

[NNN0LHI]

14. I just can't figure out how come them Iraqis won't let us help them n/t

[roger72645]

15. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

I don't even think Bush's Jesus would approve.

We are making enemies faster than he can have them killed.

[godhatesrepublicans]

16. We're really winning their hearts and minds, aren't we.

Does anyone with a recent military career know if our troops are trained at all in the concept of how to treat others so they'll be glad to see Americans in the future? I know a soldier is another word for hired killer, but Jesus Christ you'd think some common sense diplomacy would come in somewhere.

[rucky]

17. I can no longer support the troops...

until they refuse to carry out illegal orders.

n/t

[Trevelyan]

18. This is the new FReeper meme on who is responsible for War ON Iraq.

Not a joke, read this yesterday on AOL messageboard after AOL's insultingly titled article on women running as Democrats "Mommie Democrats":

mommy party omen have much more important things to do, such as be good homeakers and take care of their children and please their husbands, than getting involved in politics.

=There is now way in hell im going to vote for a democratic momy's platform. They are the reason we are in iraq.--

Hey John, may I remind you a REPUPLICAN administration is responsible for this mess.--

The republican party invaded iraq so american women would feel safe and feel like womens rights are being inforced over seas. . Even though iraq had nothing to do with terrorism the perseption is they did women praised the war in the begging but when things went bad of course they started blaming bush. women who are traditionaly democratic voted for bush=:crazy:

[Trevelyan]

19. I wrote: Women are more than Mommies. They are fighting and dying in the

Women are more than Mommies. They are fighting and dying in the War ON Iraq in COMBAT POSTITIONS.

GENERAL Wesley Clark PAC for DEMOCRATS!!

http://ga4.org/campaign/prisonerabuse?qp_source=gac%5fpa

Reply: the women soldiers in Iraq are only doing the real soldiers laundry and cooking.

:silly:

[buddysmellgood]

20. I know what I'd be doing if that happened to my family.

[Canuckistanian]

21. There, you sons-of bitches. You've just created another "terrorist".

Could it be any plainer? The US occupation is finished. It can do no more good.

There is no more excuse.

Out, now!

[The Backlash Cometh]

22. How does an American Christian who voted for Bush resolve this?

It's just unconscionable.

[CTLawGuy]

24. by having no brain whatsoever

people are just stupid and they don't pay attention to what is going on.

[Sydnie]

25. As I was told on another forum about a similar question

"because Jesus was talking to individuals, not governments". What kind of logic is that?

[immoderate]

29. You answered your own question.

--IMM

[The Backlash Cometh]

31. I have a habit of doing that in a rhetorical sort of way.

[chrisfloyd]

26. Can you blame them for lashing back?

Check this out if you find some time. I cannot post yet - only comment. Not for the sqeamish or children. Isahaqi may as well be called "Iraq Lai"



http://www.isahaqi.chris-floyd.com

If these were your children... What would do do? How would you feel?

[ClayZ]

38. .

:cry:

[dogday]

30. If it were me in this man's situation

I would kill any soldier I saw!!!! This is what we are creating in Iraq, not Democracy but hate for America....

[linazelle]

32. That brings tears to my eyes. Fucking animals. n/t

[DearAbby]

33. Was "FREEDOM ON THE MARCH" Typed on the body bag?

We are creating new generations of hate, who will in turn teach their children, children's children...ENOUGH!

[WinkyDink]

34. So would I, and then some. Because NOTHING could make me

"feel" anything after that, except vengeance.

[Nutmegger]

35. Jeezzzz, and this is being done in OUR name!

And Bush Inc calls them "terra-ists".

:grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad:
:grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad:
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:grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad:
:grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad:

:grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad:
:grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad:
:grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad:
:grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad:
:grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad:
:grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad::grr::mad:

[Kablooie]

37. This would be a clear example of why Saddam's regime was so horrible ...

except that it's us, not Saddam, who's doing it.

[B Calm]

39. I e-mailed this to my right-wing, so called christian cousin..

[dipsydoodle]

40. NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND 9/11 ?

9/11 could have been carried out by almost any relative or decendant of anyone who had suffered from overseas policy for the last 100 years. Maybe next time around it will actually be Rahman who does it.

It's simply what Ward Churchill referred to as the Justice of Roosting Chickens. In other words - you piss people off then they're going to come get you in the future.

[RBHam]

41. Apparently, you don't understand 9-11 at all...

Go ahead, don't be afraid...

http://www.911revisited.com/video.html

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6545313046180631815

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6495462761605341661&q=alex+jones

[dipsydoodle]

42. I was mid Atlantic 9/11

on my way to dance camp in SF but got turned back. While waiting to get the shuttle down to Heathrow from Glasgow I got chatting with some Americans about likely culprits. I thought it would most likely be Chileans or Guatamalans. Everything is cause and effect and your video links are short on one of those - cause if you don't understand.

[GeorgeGist]

43. But the good new is...

he had a PlayStation and a place to buy new games for it. :sarcasm:

[Disturbed]

44. This is the third incident in a short time frame

that US Troops have been accused of killing Iraqis for no just cause. If this trend continues it won't be long until the US Troops will be asked to leave Iraq &/or more US Troops will be killed than ever before. Once the population starts seeing the US Troops as their oppressors and killers it will be more Hell than it has been for the past three years.