WikiLeaks cable: U.S. troops handcuffed, shot Iraqi children in raid

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David Ferguson
Raw Story
Thursday, September 1, 2011

According to a diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks, U.S. troops massacred an Iraqi family in the town of Ishaqi in 2006, handcuffing and then shooting 11 people in the head including a woman in her 70′s and five children ages five and under.

McClatchy is reporting that the soldiers then called in an air strike on the house to cover up evidence of the killings.

This account differs sharply from an official version of the 2006 incident, which indicated that coalition forces captured an al Qaeda in Iraq operative in the house, which was destroyed in a firefight. The WikiLeaks cable, however, corroborates accounts by Ishaqi townspeople and includes questions about the incident by Philip Alston, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.

The cable is dated twelve days after the incident, which took place March 15, 2006. In it, Alston says that autopsies performed in Tikrit on bodies pulled from the wreckage of the farmhouse indicated that all of the dead had been handcuffed and shot in the head.

The victims included “at least 10 persons, namely Mr. Faiz Hratt Khalaf, (aged 28), his wife Sumay’ya Abdul Razzaq Khuther (aged 24), their three children Hawra’a (aged 5) Aisha (aged 3) and Husam (5 months old), Faiz’s mother Ms. Turkiya Majeed Ali (aged 74), Faiz’s sister (name unknown), Faiz’s nieces Asma’a Yousif Ma’arouf (aged 5 years old), and Usama Yousif Ma’arouf (aged 3 years), and a visiting relative Ms. Iqtisad Hameed Mehdi (aged 23) were killed during the raid.”


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5 Responses to “WikiLeaks cable: U.S. troops handcuffed, shot Iraqi children in raid”

  1. that’s heavy accusation…
    prove it and there will be mass uproar
    (heresay ain’t makin’ it)

  2. Quote: “U.S. troops massacred an Iraqi family in the town of Ishaqi in 2006, handcuffing and then shooting 11 people in the head including a woman in her 70′s and five children ages five and under.”

    And they wonder why “soldiers” come home and commit suicide. Whoever is involved in this type of thing needs to commit suicide to relieve us of their burden on our planet.
    Go away and don’t ever come back.

    Super Duper Man 1776 Reply:
    September 1st, 2011 at 9:35 am

    THAT’LL TEACH YOU NOT TO PAY OBAMA CARE !

  3. If you think anyone really cares, you are sadly mistaken!

    Everyone is too worried about the football game or Real Housewives on the television. Or the fact they have no job, or how they are going feed their family.

    Don’t fool yourself!

    And to the guy below, no one is going to do anything to the people responsible.

    Gee when you people going to wake up!

    No one cares!!!!

  4. All the 250,000 cables have been released uncensored and can be found online now.

    Here is the story:
    crikey.com.au/2011/09/01/its-done-bruised-egos-lead-to-the-release-of-uncensored-wikileaks-cables/

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