Thursday, May 16, 2024

Baghdad

Report on executing ten Iraqis, Wikileaks

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: A UN report was submitted to the U.S. administration on American soldiers executing ten Iraqi civilians, including four women and five children during a military operation in 2006 north of Baghdad, according to a U.S. diplomatic telegram  published by Wikileaks site.   The site reported that the telegram was dated 6 April, 2006 and sent by Phillip Aliston who was supervising execution attempts outside the limits of the law.   The telegram cited killing 9 persons from the same family and another woman who was visiting them in Balad Town, Salahuddin province, north Baghdad.   The killers demanded an air attack to obscure the evidences.   The  telegram was sent from Geneva to U.S. State Secretary in Washington and the U.S. mission to the United Nations. The air raid destroyed the house.   Iraqi  TV satellites televised scenes of the murdered people, while medical reports said that the were killed by shouts in the head while their hands were cuffed.   RM (TI)/SR 383

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