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News from the Other Side: Slaughter at Rawah
RAWAH - American troops "slaughtered" more than one hundred Iraqi civilians, most of them killed while asleep, at the early hours of Friday, June 13, eyewitnesses told IslamOnline.net.
| Got the old propaganda machine fired up, do you? But your cultural blinders are ascribing the wrong tactics â Americans don't do the same things Baathists do, even when they do things that are bad, which is seldom — and never as policy... |
The U.S. forces deliberately opened fire from tanks and helicopter gunships at the houses of Iraqi civilians in Rawah, 400 kilometers to the north-west of Baghdad, killing tens of people, they charged. The town residents rushed out of their homes which came under heavy American bombardment. Some of them emerged with their light arms and battled the occupation forces, killing and injuring an unspecified number of American troops, eyewitnesses told IOL correspondent.
| Uhuh. It could happen, I suppose. I doubt if it did... |
"The bodies of 12 of your boys were found tied with ropes, each with a bullet in the head. The Americans detained them and immediately executed them in this horrible way," charged Abu Saadoun, one of the town tribal leaders.
| Now, why in the world would we do that? Even if we were committing an atrocity, why would we blindfold them, rather than just mowing them down? Blindfolds and shots to the head would be evidence. Baathists don't worry about leaving evidence, but Americans certainly would. I'd call Abu a lying sack of droppings, myself... |
"Now we have to avenge not only the occupation of our country but also the slaughtering of our boys. We will open the gates of hell on the Americans," he pledged in exclusive statements to IOL.
| "Yes, yes! We must declare jihad!" |
Tired and exhausted Abu Khaled told IOL he spent three hours in the desert at the outskirts of Rawah digging a mass grave for the victims of the American massacre. "We buried more than 80 of our sons but are still puzzled what pushed the Americans to massacre our people. We are far away from Baghdad and no fighting has been reported here. We have no training camps as alleged by the occupation forces. No Baathists. No nothing. The people of Rawah all reserved Sunnis. Rawah has a majority of PHD and university certificates holders."
| "Most of the inhabitants are puppies, kittens or baby ducks!" |
He uncovered to IOL that a number of Arab fighters, who flocked to Iraq during the days leading to the Anglo-American occupation to join arms in defending the Arab country, occasionally came to the town, also inhabited by a number of Iraqi army officers. "But, they are not Baathist officers. They opposed Saddam regime but they more strongly oppose the American occupation of their country," Abu Khaled said of the Iraqi army officers.
| "They're all absolute paragons of virtue! Really!" |
He asserted that the resistance of the American occupation has not yet gained its full momentum and is just at the very beginning. American armored vehicles and tanks are heavily deployed along Baghdad-Rawah highway but none of the Americans agreed to deliver statements to IOL team other than that they were hunting down loyalists to Saddam and his Baath party.
Asked why they target the north and north-west of Iraq, areas of Sunni majority, an American major who declined to put his name said they do not care if the areas belong to Sunnis or others, claiming there was "terrorist" activities there.
| So shut your fudge up and get out of the way." |
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-06-16 |
