This excerpt is merely here to invite you to read the entire article. Please do so at your earliest opportunity; the truth needs to be heard:
It was the home of 76-year-old Abdul Hamid Hassan Ali. Although he had used a wheelchair since diabetes forced a leg amputation years ago, Ali was always one of the first on his block to go out every morning, scattering scraps for his chickens and hosing the dust of the arid western town from his driveway, neighbors said.
In the house with Ali and his 66-year-old wife, Khamisa Tuma Ali, were three of the middle-aged male members of their family, at least one daughter-in-law and four children — 4-year-old Abdullah, 8-year-old Iman, 5-year-old Abdul Rahman and 2-month-old Asia.
Marines entered shooting, witnesses recalled. Most of the shots — in Ali’s house and two others — were fired at such close range that they went through the bodies of the family members and plowed into walls or the floor, physicians at Haditha’s hospital said.
Ali took nine rounds in the chest and abdomen, leaving his intestines spilling out of the exit wounds in his back, according to his death certificate.
Full story at In Haditha, Memories of a Massacre, WashingtonPost.com, 27 May 2006.
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1 chow-stl // May 31, 2006 at 4:09 am
This is very distressing. If the accusations turn out to be truthful, heads should roll. I hope that the illistration of how we deal with those in our armed forces who commite atrocities does not go unnoticed in the lager arab world where such practices by most arab goverment are not only condoned, but encouraged.
2 Richard // Jun 2, 2006 at 12:14 pm
If this turns out to be the atrocity it currently appears to be, we need to address it swiftly and harshly on purely moral grounds. International concerns are important, of course, but in my mind they are a distant second as a reason to deal with this apparent situation.
I feel nauseaus every time I spend more than a few seconds thinking about how this situation might have played itself out… the enraged irrationality of military men with guns expressing itself against unarmed, innocent people who are just trying to get through another day in their war-torn country.
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