US Bombers Pound Shia Iraqi City (Kut)

[SOS]

August 12, 2004 BBC News:

"US air strikes and fighting on the ground in the Iraqi city of Kut have left 72 people dead and about 150 injured, the Iraqi government says.

Planes bombed a district of the city associated with Shia gunmen, but the city's hospital director said many of the casualties were women and children.

"We never expected to see so many bodies," Khader Fadal Arar added."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3558330.stm

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Mission re-accomplished!

[Chef]

2. Terra

If I did't know better I'd say * is trying to provoke a terror attack?

[Aidoneus]

5. No, just trying to carry them out

beastly massacres such as this will not go without a response, however.

[Nevernose]

3. Didn't al-Jazeera get thrown out of Iraq just a couple of weeks ago?

Could it be they werew prepping for the Najaf crackdown?

[SOS]

4. Also wanted to add

that not one word of this bombardment is being reported on American Pravda.
Had to go to BBC to get the link.

[ugarte]

6. "Bring out your dead, bring out your dead"

Shameful. Remember Picasso's Guernica? Now there are so many new ones: Kut, Fallujah, Najaf....

[Voltaire99]

7. Just another day at work for the Empire

Civilian casualties? Oh, regrettable, regrettable.

Our fighting lads? Oh, support 'em, support 'em.

[Dhalgren]

8. America under the Bush regime

has truly become a world-class villain. The worst villain in the world. Why do these republicans and their zombie followers want the whole world to hate us? What is in it for them? I can understand the criminal mind wanting to murder, kill, maim, rape, and steal, but these keystone criminals are beyond understanding. What are they trying to accomplish? We have got to take to the streets, we have no other choice.