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Friday, June 02, 2006

99.9% of U.S. troops would never do this

The Marines stopped next at the home of customs official Younis Salim Nusaif, 45, his wife, Aida Yassin, and their six children. The 42-year-old Yassin was in bed that morning, recovering from a recent operation. Her sister had come to stay with the family and help with housework while she recuperated.

Everyone was at home when the troops arrived. And all but one 12-year-old girl were slain. Along with the parents and visiting sister, four girls and a boy, their ages ranging from 4 to 15, were shot by the Marines, said neighbors and the surviving child, Safa Younis Salim.

During a meeting with a reporter, Safa, with a round face and big brown eyes, was withdrawn and reluctant to talk about the attack. Only after her relatives coaxed her did she describe how she played dead. The Americans yelled in the faces of her family members before shooting them, she said, then kicked them and hit the bodies with their guns.

The schoolgirl said she lay on the ground, covered with her sister's blood, and pretended to be dead while her family died around her. Her sister's blood spurted fast; it was like a water tap, she said.

"I feel sorry. I was wishing to be alive," said Safa. "Now I wish I had died with them." - Los Angeles Times, June 1, 2006
Somehow when I read things like this, I just don't care at all whether or not 99.9% of the troops over there are exemplary. It just seems irrelevant. Note that this is an account of what happened at the second home, whereas everything else I've alluded to before had to do with events at the first home. It's easy to get confused, what with young children being shot to death in both locations.

Here is a good "backgrounder" from the Council on Foreign Relations.

By the way, when are the mainstream media going to start getting their basic facts straight? Seems the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times can't even agree on whether the wheelchair-bound amputee was 76 or 89. Let's hope the military's continuing investigations are able to clear that up.


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