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Killing Women and Children
Much has been made in the press today about a U. S. airstrike that resulted in the deaths of some innocent Iraqi women and children. A tragedy to be sure. May God comfort their families.
But this tragedy was an aberration for U. S. forces which have been following strict rules of engagement. Why the rules? So we don’t kill innocent women and children. We want to kill the bad guys–which we did, by the way: 19 insurgents killed–apparrently while hiding behind the skirts of women.
Nonetheless, the U.S. issued a statement expressing regret and launched an investigation into the deaths.
Now, contrast today’s U.S. airstrike with the standard operating procedure of al Qaeda. Which have you heard more about today in the press: al Qaeda purposely killing innocent women and children (like here and here) or the U.S. doing so by mistake?
The good news today: we have eliminated three more al Qaeda leaders known to target women and children:
Update: Killed terrorists responsible for Imam’s assassination are positively identified
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Three of the al-Qaeda in Iraq members killed in a Coalition air strike Wednesday following their assassination of a local Imam have been identified as Abu Rami, Ammar Fadhil Kadhim and Fadil Salman, who is also known as Abu Ra’ad.
Coalition forces killed the three terrorists and ten other criminals west of Baghdad while conducting operations in the area to further disrupt al-Qaeda in Iraq activities. Intelligence reports indicated that, on Wednesday morning, an assassination team, led by Ra’ad, attacked and killed Abu Bilal. Bilal was an Imam who had been preaching anti-al-Qaeda messages in the local mosque.
. . . All three identified terrorists were known and feared by the locals in the area. Kadhim was a senior al-Qaeda figure in the Abu Ghuraiyb district and is known to have killed both women and children. Numerous weapons and a suicide belt were found among the group of dead terrorists following the air strike.
“Cowardly acts against religious leaders and citizens such as this continue to demonstrate that Al-Qaeda in Iraq will not allow people to live in peace,” said Maj. Winfield Danielson, MNF-I spokesman. “Iraqi and Coalition forces will make every effort to end al-Qaeda’s campaign to terrorize Iraq citizens.”
Red State Rascals
October 17th, 2007 at 5:19 am
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