<tt id="6hsgl"><pre id="6hsgl"><pre id="6hsgl"></pre></pre></tt>
          <nav id="6hsgl"><th id="6hsgl"></th></nav>
          国产免费网站看v片元遮挡,一亚洲一区二区中文字幕,波多野结衣一区二区免费视频,天天色综网,久久综合给合久久狠狠狠,男人的天堂av一二三区,午夜福利看片在线观看,亚洲中文字幕在线无码一区二区
            Home>News Center>World
                   
           

          Pentagon says it hit fighters, not Iraqi wedding
          (Agencies)
          Updated: 2004-05-20 09:12

          U.S. forces killed dozens in an attack in Iraq's western desert, the army said on Thursday, but reports the victims were civilians at a wedding sparked outrage as Washington struggled to contain a prisoner abuse scandal.


          Video from The Associated Press shows what appears to be a burial. [APTN]
          Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations for the U.S. military in Iraq, told Reuters the attack early on Wednesday targeted "a suspected foreign fighter safe house," 16 miles east of the Syrian border.

          But Dubai-based Al Arabiya television, quoting eyewitnesses, said the raid on the village of Makr al-Deeb had targeted people celebrating a wedding and had killed at least 41 civilians.

          "At 0300 (7 p.m. EDT Tuesday) we conducted an operation... against suspected foreign fighters in a safe house," Kimmitt said. "We took ground fire and we returned fire."

          Asked about reports of dozens killed, he said: "We are not disputing the numbers you are hearing. We estimate that around 40 were killed. But we operated within our rules of engagement."

          Washington says the daily dose of death and destruction in Iraq will not delay its handing sovereignty to Iraqis on June 30, but analysts say the handover will not stop Iraq dominating debate during the run-up to November's presidential election.

          U.S. General John Abizaid, who oversees military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, predicted a surge in violence after June 30 and leading up to Iraqi polls at the end of the year.


          Video from the Associated Press shows wedding mourners. [APTN]
          Arabiya showed pictures of several shrouded bodies lined up on a dirt road. Men were shown digging graves and lowering bodies, one of a child, into the pits while relatives wept.

          "We received about 40 martyrs today, mainly women and children below the age of 12," Hamdy al-Lousy, the director of Qaim hospital, told Al Arabiya. "We also have 11 people wounded, most of them in critical condition."

          The U.S. military has already faced international outrage this month after photographs emerged showing American soldiers abusing Iraqis held at Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison.

          U.S. military policeman Specialist Jeremy Sivits, 24, was jailed for a year on Wednesday and discharged from the army after he admitted sexually humiliating prisoners in the first court martial of soldiers connected to the case.

          VILLAGE "LEVELED"

          In Al Arabiya's report of the U.S. attack an unidentified man who said he was from the village said there had been an air strike as residents celebrated a wedding.

          "They hit two homes where the wedding was being held and then they leveled the whole village," he said. "No bullets were fired by us, nothing was happening."

          Guests and relatives at Muslim weddings often fire guns in the air in jubilation. In July 2002, a U.S. air strike on an Afghan wedding party killed 48 civilians. A report released by the U.S. Central Command said the strike was justified because American planes had come under fire.

          A U.S. military statement said that during Wednesday's operation, "coalition forces came under hostile fire and close air support was provided." It said troops recovered numerous weapons, two million Iraqi and Syrian dinar, foreign passports and a satellite communications system.

          Kimmitt said there were no indications the victims of the attack had been celebrating a wedding.

          "I'VE LET EVERYBODY DOWN"

          Wednesday's court martial, held at a Baghdad congress center built by Saddam Hussein, was meant by U.S. commanders to prove to Iraqis and the world that justice is being done in an affair Washington says is an isolated incident.

          A plea bargain means Sivits is now expected to testify at courts martial against up to six members of his unit, three of whom were arraigned on Wednesday on much graver charges.

          "We must send a message to other soldiers, to our nation and to the Iraqi people that the American military does not tolerate such behavior," said the prosecutor, Captain John McCabe.

          Sivits, who said he came to "help the Iraqi people get rid of Saddam," sobbed as he apologized to the people of Iraq, the detainees, the court, the army and his family.

          "I've let everybody down. That's not me," he said.

          In Washington, senators grilled top generals in Iraq over whether a drive for intelligence may have prompted abuse.

          Abizaid said on Wednesday mistreatment was more extensive than previously acknowledged. He told the Senate hearing the military had investigated 75 cases of abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan since late 2002. But he said no "culture of abuse existed" and he blamed the physical and sexual intimidation of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison as the "failures of a few."

          The scandal has battered the image of the United States across the Arab world and prompted loud calls from around the globe for Washington to hand over real power to Iraqis.

          U.S.-led forces are struggling against guerrillas, notably militiamen backing rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

          Iraq's top Shi'ite religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who rarely makes public statements, called on Sadr and U.S.-led forces this week to pull out of the holy cities of Najaf and Kerbala. But Sadr appeared to be ignoring the call.

          Hospital sources said at least eight Iraqis were killed and 14 wounded in renewed fighting in Kerbala on Wednesday near one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest sites.

          The clashes erupted as U.S. tanks advanced near the shrine of Imam Hussein in Kerbala, one of several southern cities where Sadr's Mehdi Army militia rose up in a rebellion U.S. forces have spent weeks trying to crush.

          Loud explosions also echoed across Najaf after dark as Sadr's militiamen launched mortar attacks on U.S. positions.

           
            Today's Top News     Top World News
           

          Authorities to monitor price shifts before rate decision

           

             
           

          Official: China can feed its own people

           

             
           

          Shanxi mine blasts kill 24, trap 23 others

           

             
           

          Experts: Mainland has seen through Chen

           

             
           

          US attacks wedding party, kills 41 Iraqis

           

             
           

          New photos depict Iraqi prisoner abuses

           

             
            US attacks wedding party, kills 41 Iraqis
             
            Israel presses Gaza offensive despite world outcry
             
            Bomb found near Greek Games site
             
            New photos depict Iraqi prisoner abuses
             
            US soldier sentenced for role in Iraq abuse
             
            India's Congress drums up support for Singh as PM
             
           
            Go to Another Section  
           
           
            Story Tools  
             
            Related Stories  
             
          US attacks wedding party, kills 41 Iraqis
             
          US soldier sentenced for role in Iraq abuse
             
          Top US generals in Iraq knew prison abuses last fall
             
          Honduran troops complete withdrawal from Iraq
            News Talk  
            Scandal over humiliation of Iraqi prisoners  
          Advertisement
                   
          主站蜘蛛池模板: 精品无码久久久久久尤物| 久久亚洲中文字幕视频| 亚洲人成色7777在线观看不卡| 国产免费又黄又爽又色毛| 亚洲中文一区二区av| 亚洲欧美牲交| 成人影片麻豆国产影片免费观看| 免费中文熟妇在线影片| 少妇激情精品视频在线| 天堂网亚洲综合在线| 国产亚洲情侣一区二区无| 国产精品久久久天天影视香蕉| 亚洲男人的天堂久久香蕉| 免费网站看V片在线毛| 欧美精品videosbestsex日本| 国内不卡不区二区三区| 中文有无人妻VS无码人妻激烈| 67194熟妇在线观看线路| 欧美变态另类z0z0禽交| 亚洲国产成熟视频在线多多| 午夜福利激情一区二区三区| 亚洲欧美日韩愉拍自拍美利坚| 在线观看成人永久免费网站| 国产亚洲精品在av| 国内精品久久久久影院网站| 久久精品国产一区二区涩涩| 不卡在线一区二区三区视频| 国产精品国产三级国产专i| 国产成人精品永久免费视频| 欧美综合婷婷欧美综合五月| 久久日产一线二线三线| 成人aaa片一区国产精品| 国产乱码精品一区二区三| y1111111少妇无码| 亚洲精品电影院| 亚洲二区中文字幕在线| 亚洲欧美日韩第一页| 亚洲一区二区精品动漫| 国产亚洲精品久久久久久大师 | 亚洲午夜天堂| 给我播放片在线观看|