an ugly image from baghdad to remind us, bush's kill people for money

[mopaul]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6901.htm

I had been standing there taking pictures for two or three minutes when we heard the helicopters coming back. Everyone started running, and I didn't look back to see what was happening to the injured men. We were all rushing towards the same place: a fence, a block of buildings and a prefab concrete cube used as a cigarette stall.

I had just reached the corner of the cube when I heard two explosions, I felt hot air blast my face and something burning on my head. I crawled to the cube and hid behind it. Six of us were squeezed into a space less than two metres wide. Blood started dripping on my camera but all that I could think about was how to keep the lens clean. A man in his 40s next to me was crying. He wasn't injured, he was just crying. I was so scared I just wanted to squeeze myself against the wall. The helicopters wheeled overhead, and I realised that they were firing directly at us. I wanted to be invisible, I wanted to hide under the others.

As the helicopters moved a little further off, two of the men ran away to a nearby building. I stayed where I was with a young man, maybe in his early 20s, who was wearing a pair of leather boots and a tracksuit. He was sitting on the ground, his legs stretched in front of him but with his knee joint bent outwards unnaturally. Blood ran on to the dirt beneath him as he peered round the corner. I started taking pictures of him. He looked at me and turned his head back towards the street as if he was looking for something. His eyes were wide open and kept looking.

[izzie]

1. Since we turned the people of Asia into hating the US now its======

time to work on the Middle East. What has happened to the USA? It shames me.It is like most people in this country can not face the fact we just can not do this to the world.We will not last trying to rule the world. The Empire will fall and we may already be on the downward pass with the Middle class dying off.This does not seem like terrorists but just people of Iraq trying to run their own country.

[Algorem]

2. Hey hey GWB how many kids will you kill today?

[Disturbed]

3. Killing unarmed kids now.

Amerikans can be proud. After the Prison Torture it would seem that the US Forces would be smarter than be on camera with their crimes. btw more Prison Torture surfacing. Seems it is not just a "few bad apples" and pranks but widespread torture policy. So far the Neo Fascists have been able to Cover major criminal acts. Had it not been for the photos the world would prolly not heard much about the torture, rapes, beatings and "murders" perpetrated by agents of the US Govt. Neo Fascists.

[Algorem]

4. gotta get them out.

[wkirby]

5. So much for a pleasant lunch break . . .

geez, that's horrific.

-Will

[SOS]

6. From todays NYT:

After describing the Sunday helicopter attack pictured above, Dexter Filkins goes on to write:

"On Monday, the scene repeated itself in another corner of Baghdad. When three insurgents opened fire on an American sport utility vehicle, American soldiers sprayed the area with gunfire, destroying three cars and killing at least one Iraqi civilian and wounding three others.

"When the Americans fire back, they don't hit the people who are attacking them, only the civilians," said Osama Ali, a 24-year-old Iraqi who witnessed the attack. "This is why Iraqis hate the Americans so much."

[ghostsofgiants]

7. ...

Why should we believe a guy named Osama? </sarcsm>

That's quite disturbing.

[Nordic]

8. this photo, if circulated, would have a similar impact to this:

So I'm sure that's why it's NOT being shown in the United States.

Except here, on the internet.

Fuckwads.

[leftchick]

9. then there are the wounded.... this boy's brother lost his EYES!.....

Omar Ali stands next to walls stained with blood including that of his brothers, at their apartment in Haifa Street, Iraq (news - web sites), Monday Sept. 13, 2004. The stains occurred when injured people scrambled into the building for help on Sunday, after a U.S. helicopter shot at cheering crowd gathered near a burning Bradley fighting vehicle, next to their apartment block in Haifa street. His brother lost his eyes to shrapnel wounds as he was watching the incident from the balcony. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)