Cable implicates US troops in execution of Iraqi children

cyberhog

American troops may have executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians and then ordered an air strike to obliterate the evidence, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks.

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Philip Alston, the U.N.'s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, wrote to a U.S. embassy with fresh evidence supporting the charge that American troops intentionally killed civilians. The U.S. military has ignored his requests for more information.

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Alston's cable notes that autopsies conducted on the 10 civilians killed during the raid determined that they had been handcuffed and shot in the head. Of the 10 people killed, four were women and five were children younger than the age of five.

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"Troops entered the house, handcuffed all residents and executed all of them," Alston wrote. "After the initial MNF [Multi-National Force] intervention, a U.S. air raid ensued that destroyed the house."

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/207182/20110901/wikileaks-cable-release-wikileaks-iraq-wikileaks-iraq-massacre-wikileaks-release.htm


Ignoring the UN rapporteurs requests is not exactly a smart approach. I think if the US wants to allay the suspicion that it commited this horrific atrocity it should reopen the case and complete the investigation.


Read the cable:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/31/122766/cable-massacre-of-iraqi-family.html

Matt Holck

American troops may have executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians and then ordered an air strike to obliterate the evidence, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks.

so it's OK to airstrike Iraqi citizens if they weren't executed first