US helicopter attacks Iraqi school killing 7 children

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US Chopper Kills Seven Iraqi Children

Baghdad, May 8 (Prensa Latina) A US helicopter gunship attacked a public school in Diyala Province, killing seven children and wounding another three, police said.

No reason has been given for the attack on the Al Saada Elementary School and the US Army has made no comment.

At least 600,000 Iraqis have been killed since the US invasion and occupation started in 2001.

A US military detachment was ambushed by resistance forces in the same area of the province two days ago, with six US servicemen killed after their vehicle hit a homemade bomb.

These deaths brought the number of US soldiers killed in this Arab nation to 3,378 since 2003.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon announced sending an additional 10 active combat brigades, 35,000 troops, between August and December this year.

http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID ... anguage=EN

Who needs a V-Tech killer when youve got the good old US army to do the killing.

That 600,000 number is often repeated but it was way, way too high. There is very little information in this story. Who is the policemen? What it the source. There is already a blatant lie (the 600K number, the result of a fraudulent Lancent study.

Why would the U.S. army/air force gun down children? For what tactical purpose? It would only cause anger and resentment and breed anti-US sentiment regardless of who the dead are (Shi'a, Sunni, or Kurd). The war is already unpopular in America. More instability will only give rise to an urge to withdraw.

Perhaps, in theory, 7 children were killed by a U.S. helicopter (although insurgents have been known to stage war crimes). What evidence is there that is was intentional?

It was stated that the U.S. did not "make comment." Considering that the journalist has already written the war has caused "600,000" dead perhaps the military, admittedly inept at public relations as it is, feels they will not get a fair shake. Perhaps they do not have any information. Perhaps, as the press often does in America, they called shortly before they would write the story, asked, "Do you have any comment?" The army had no information, or perhaps they just called the wrong people or didn't call at all, and proceeded to run the story immediately.

Disgusting!!. I've seen some pretty sick videos on US troops randomly shooting Iraqi civilians and giving a high five to each other afterwards. the kind of people that join the amry do not value life I'm convinced of it.

600000 divided by 4 years works out at 400 per day throughout Iraq which as a ratio is equivelant to 100 per day in Baghdad which is pretty much what we are seeing at the moment.

Bear in mind that as well as bullet and shrapnel deaths there is also a percentage of the population dying through war related causes such as lack of medical care and medicines, malnutrition and stress.

If the most vulrenable 1 pc of the population died per year then that works out to 250 000 per year. Here we are talking about the illest, youngest and oldest.

Even if you take it that due to no national infrastructure including employment and dont forget the heat, the heat my man would roast you alive. No electricity thanks to your invasion to cool people and food...

Dont foret the lack of clean water after your glorious air force bombed the water works...Dont forget the untreated sewage again courtesy of the good ol USA and add into the mix the 115 degree heat and add to that no electricity. But the jimservo id have thought a man of your inteligence might have worked all of this out. Perhaps you are an artificial inteligence or perhaps you are brainwashed. I can help you you know...

Sorry to burst your little bubble and i hope ive no t made you feel bad or anything.

If it is true, it is an outrage. Yet again, it seems unlikely that an Army pilot would do such a thing and get away with it. If it was staged by insurgents, then such people are traitors. Seems likely, because of the deep divisions in Iraq. But to attack a school and innocent children... Iraqi insurgents act more like monstrous terrorists, even to their own countrymen.

Is this the same story here?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6637307.stm

You are too naive jimservo that you think that the civilians being deliberately slaughtered by US forces are accidental or rogue. It is happening up and down Iraq, daily.

90 percent of the population support the resistance in fact for they are the population.

In a court of law one would require proof that the murderers word is true. Of course they would say they were shot at first for gods sake

Re: 655,000 war dead claim. You switched it over to malnutrition, ex cetera, but that wasn't what the survey claimed. The survey claimed violent deaths.

Flaws of the survey: