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EMAIL ACTION! *Massive* civilian casualties ignored by media
Massive civilian casualties! Ignored again! Take action!
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URGENT ACTION NEEDED!! (see below)
We now know that the missile that killed more than 60 in a Baghdad market was made in America and fired by a U.S. bomber, probably a B-52.
Links can be found here (but never mind that story for now)
http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=MFR+96214+09
The latest story, one that we must act on, is here:
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/030401/1/39o1f.html
Wednesday April 2, 12:56 AM
Bombings kill 48 more civilians south of Baghdad
Forty-eight more civilians, including women and children, have been killed and 310 wounded in US-British bombings around this town south of Baghdad in the last 24 hours, a hospital director revealed.
The deaths brought to 73 the number of Iraqi civilians who have died under allied bombings since Monday.
Thirty-three civilians, including women and children, were killed and 310 wounded in a coalition bombing on the southern province of Babylon on Tuesday morning, a hospital director said.
Murtada Abbas said the bombing targeted the Nader residential area at the southern outskirts of the farming town of Hilla, 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of the capital.
He was speaking at the Hilla hospital where a large number of children lay wounded under blankets on the floor due to a shortage of beds.
At the scene of the bombing, dozens of what seemed to be parts of cluster bombs equipped with small parachutes were peppered over a large area, an AFP correspondent at the site said.
Iraqi soldiers were seen collecting the debris, which witnesses said coalition warplanes had dropped over the neighborhood. The soldiers poured fuel on the bombs before setting them on fire to explode the ordnance.
Dozens of homes were destroyed in the bombing that also killed donkeys and chickens, the correspondent said.
Fifteen members of a family were killed late Monday when their pickup truck was blown up by a rocket from a US Apache helicopter in the region of Haidariya near Hilla, the sole survivor of the attack told AFP on Tuesday.
Razek al-Kazem al-Khafaji said he lost his wife, six children, his father, his mother, his three brothers and their wives.
Khafaji, sitting among the 15 coffins at the local hospital, said the family was fleeing fierce fighting in Nasiriya, further south, when they were targetted by a US helicopter in Haidariya.
US troops admitted killing seven women and children when they opened fire Monday on a civilian vehicle at a military checkpoint manned by the US Army's Third Infantry Division at Najaf, 150 kilometers (95 miles) south of Baghdad.
On Monday, eighteen civilians were also killed in coalition bombings on Baghdad, according to Information Minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf.
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And here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,927890,00.html
(excerpt)
Children killed in US assault
Ewen Mackaskill in Washington and Suzanne Goldenberg in Baghdad
Wednesday April 2, 2003
The Guardian
Dozens of Iraqi villagers were killed and injured in a ferocious American air and land assault near the Iraqi city of Babylon, hospital officials in the town said yesterday.
Reuters reporters on the scene confirmed the deaths of at least nine children, two other civilians and two Iraqi fighters at Hilla in a bombardment on Monday night and early yesterday morning.
An Iraqi hospital official said the death toll stood at 33 civilians, with more than 300 wounded.
Unedited TV footage from Babylon hospital, which was seen by the Guardian, showed the tiny corpse of a baby wrapped up like a doll in a funeral shroud and carried out of the morgue on a pink pallet.
It was laid face-to-face on the pavement against the body of a boy, who looked about 10.
Horrifically injured bodies were heaped into pick-up trucks, and were swarmed by relatives of the dead, who accompanied them for burial.
Bed after bed of injured women and children were pictured along with large pools of blood on the floor of the hospital.
"All of these are due to the American bombing to the civilian homes. Hundreds of civilians have been injured, and many have been killed," said Nazim al-Adali, an Edinburgh-trained doctor at the hospital, who appealed to his "colleagues" in England to protest against the bombings.
Among the injured in the women's ward was Aliya Mukhtaf, who said her husband and her six children were killed in the attack. The TV pictures also showed a teenage boy with bandages over the stump where his right hand was sheared off by shrapnel.
"There are not any army cars or tanks in the area," said Dr al-Adali, who claimed cluster bombs had been used.
Several of those interviewed on TV described large tank movements as the US tried to advance the final 50 miles to Baghdad.
"God take our revenge on America," a stunned man said repeatedly at the hospital. Hospital staff said the man's whole family was wiped out.
"What has he done wrong, what has he done wrong?" the driver of a pick-up truck ferrying the dead said as he held the body of an infant.
Residents said US forces had attacked the town on Monday but were pushed back by regular and irregular Iraqi forces. As the Americans retreated, they shelled the town, the residents said. One US soldier was reported killed in the action on Monday.
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(1) Send this message to all of your lists, friends, family, associates.
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(2) Contact the following, ask them to cover the story about massive civilian casualties at Hilla if they haven't, and tell them how you feel about this tragedy.
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CNN feedback:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/
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Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/
page to the bottom
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ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/service/help/abccontact.html
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CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/home/main100.shtml
page down, click on "Feedback"
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MSNBC News
http://www.msnbc.com/news/435157.asp?0bb=-m1
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(3) Now please contact your local news outlets.
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---------- URGENT ACTION NEEDED!! -----------------
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------------------------------------------------------------------------
URGENT ACTION NEEDED!! (see below)
We now know that the missile that killed more than 60 in a Baghdad market was made in America and fired by a U.S. bomber, probably a B-52.
Links can be found here (but never mind that story for now)
http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=MFR+96214+09
The latest story, one that we must act on, is here:
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/030401/1/39o1f.html
Wednesday April 2, 12:56 AM
Bombings kill 48 more civilians south of Baghdad
Forty-eight more civilians, including women and children, have been killed and 310 wounded in US-British bombings around this town south of Baghdad in the last 24 hours, a hospital director revealed.
The deaths brought to 73 the number of Iraqi civilians who have died under allied bombings since Monday.
Thirty-three civilians, including women and children, were killed and 310 wounded in a coalition bombing on the southern province of Babylon on Tuesday morning, a hospital director said.
Murtada Abbas said the bombing targeted the Nader residential area at the southern outskirts of the farming town of Hilla, 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of the capital.
He was speaking at the Hilla hospital where a large number of children lay wounded under blankets on the floor due to a shortage of beds.
At the scene of the bombing, dozens of what seemed to be parts of cluster bombs equipped with small parachutes were peppered over a large area, an AFP correspondent at the site said.
Iraqi soldiers were seen collecting the debris, which witnesses said coalition warplanes had dropped over the neighborhood. The soldiers poured fuel on the bombs before setting them on fire to explode the ordnance.
Dozens of homes were destroyed in the bombing that also killed donkeys and chickens, the correspondent said.
Fifteen members of a family were killed late Monday when their pickup truck was blown up by a rocket from a US Apache helicopter in the region of Haidariya near Hilla, the sole survivor of the attack told AFP on Tuesday.
Razek al-Kazem al-Khafaji said he lost his wife, six children, his father, his mother, his three brothers and their wives.
Khafaji, sitting among the 15 coffins at the local hospital, said the family was fleeing fierce fighting in Nasiriya, further south, when they were targetted by a US helicopter in Haidariya.
US troops admitted killing seven women and children when they opened fire Monday on a civilian vehicle at a military checkpoint manned by the US Army's Third Infantry Division at Najaf, 150 kilometers (95 miles) south of Baghdad.
On Monday, eighteen civilians were also killed in coalition bombings on Baghdad, according to Information Minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf.
________
And here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,927890,00.html
(excerpt)
Children killed in US assault
Ewen Mackaskill in Washington and Suzanne Goldenberg in Baghdad
Wednesday April 2, 2003
The Guardian
Dozens of Iraqi villagers were killed and injured in a ferocious American air and land assault near the Iraqi city of Babylon, hospital officials in the town said yesterday.
Reuters reporters on the scene confirmed the deaths of at least nine children, two other civilians and two Iraqi fighters at Hilla in a bombardment on Monday night and early yesterday morning.
An Iraqi hospital official said the death toll stood at 33 civilians, with more than 300 wounded.
Unedited TV footage from Babylon hospital, which was seen by the Guardian, showed the tiny corpse of a baby wrapped up like a doll in a funeral shroud and carried out of the morgue on a pink pallet.
It was laid face-to-face on the pavement against the body of a boy, who looked about 10.
Horrifically injured bodies were heaped into pick-up trucks, and were swarmed by relatives of the dead, who accompanied them for burial.
Bed after bed of injured women and children were pictured along with large pools of blood on the floor of the hospital.
"All of these are due to the American bombing to the civilian homes. Hundreds of civilians have been injured, and many have been killed," said Nazim al-Adali, an Edinburgh-trained doctor at the hospital, who appealed to his "colleagues" in England to protest against the bombings.
Among the injured in the women's ward was Aliya Mukhtaf, who said her husband and her six children were killed in the attack. The TV pictures also showed a teenage boy with bandages over the stump where his right hand was sheared off by shrapnel.
"There are not any army cars or tanks in the area," said Dr al-Adali, who claimed cluster bombs had been used.
Several of those interviewed on TV described large tank movements as the US tried to advance the final 50 miles to Baghdad.
"God take our revenge on America," a stunned man said repeatedly at the hospital. Hospital staff said the man's whole family was wiped out.
"What has he done wrong, what has he done wrong?" the driver of a pick-up truck ferrying the dead said as he held the body of an infant.
Residents said US forces had attacked the town on Monday but were pushed back by regular and irregular Iraqi forces. As the Americans retreated, they shelled the town, the residents said. One US soldier was reported killed in the action on Monday.
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------- PLEASE TAKE THE FOLLOWING ACTIONS!! ---------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
(1) Send this message to all of your lists, friends, family, associates.
---------------------------------------------------
(2) Contact the following, ask them to cover the story about massive civilian casualties at Hilla if they haven't, and tell them how you feel about this tragedy.
--
CNN feedback:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/
--
Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/
page to the bottom
--
ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/service/help/abccontact.html
--
CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/home/main100.shtml
page down, click on "Feedback"
--
MSNBC News
http://www.msnbc.com/news/435157.asp?0bb=-m1
---------------------------------------------------
(3) Now please contact your local news outlets.
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