Fwd: [ cacklinggrackle] Liberators as murderers

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T. Lassiter Jones <ljonez23

Jun 5, 2006 9:43 AM

[cacklinggrackle] Liberators as murderers

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" Could Haditha be just the tip of the mass grave?

 

" The corpses we have glimpsed, the grainy footage of the cadavers and

the dead children; could these be just a few of many? Does the

handiwork of the United States' army of the slums go further?

 

" I remember clearly the first suspicions I had that murder most foul

might be taking place in our name in Iraq. I was in the Baghdad

mortuary, counting corpses, when one of the city's senior medical

officials, an old friend, told me of his fears. 'Everyone brings

bodies here,' he said. 'But when the Americans bring bodies in, we are

instructed that under no circumstances are we ever to do post-mortems.

We were given to understand that this had already been done. Sometimes

we'd get a piece of paper like this one with a body.' And here the man

handed me a U.S. military document showing with the hand-drawn outline

of a man's body and the words 'trauma wounds.'

 

" What kind of trauma is now being experienced in Iraq? Just who is

doing the mass killing? Who is dumping so many bodies on garbage

heaps? After Haditha, we are going to reshape our suspicions. "

 

Full article at:

http://www.counterpunch.com/fisk06032006.html