Thirty Iraq 'militants' were killed during an US raid by Ana Maria Ciobanu

The US forces are doing it again. Thirty Iraq 'militants' were killed in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad during an air strike following a raid in the Shia district of Sadr City. The US military stated the dead were part of a network that was smuggling weapons from Iran. As usual, the official statements never sound like the witnesses statements. Witnesses said women and children were among those killed. The US forces are doing it again. Thirty Iraq 'militants' were killed in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad during an air strike following a raid in the Shia district of Sadr City. The US military stated the dead were part of a network that was smuggling weapons from Iran. As usual, the official statements never sound like the witnesses statements. Witnesses said women and children were among those killed. The Associated Press quoted Iraqi police saying nine civilians were killed in the US operation in Sadr City. Two of the civilians were women. Immediately after that, a military statement was issued and the spokesman said there had been women and children in the area during the raid but that none of them were killed. How is this possible to believe, when after the raid, men and young boys were seen mourning over coffins outside a nearby hospital and hundreds of residents marched through the city protesting against the raid? This tragedy came just in the eve of a major Shia religious festival which is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of pilgrims. Two years ago almost 1000 pilgrims were killed at the same pilgrimage after rumors spread that a suicide bomber was amongst the crowd. In these terrible cases the purpose of the war doesn't even matter anymore. What matters is that we're in the year 2007 and we're not capable of resolving conflicts without killing thousands and thousand of civilians. Haven't we learnt anything?!

by Ana Maria Ciobanu for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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