Just keep on killing, f*ckers!
Apr. 2nd, 2003 03:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tcpipWarning: Graphic story ahead. You may not want to read this.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=393127
Children killed and maimed in bomb attack on town
By Robert Fisk in Baghdad and Justin Huggler
02 April 2003
At least 11 civilians, nine of them children, were killed in Hilla in
central Iraq yesterday, according to reporters in the town who said they
appeared to be the victims of bombing.
Reporters from the Reuters news agency said they counted the bodies of 11
civilians and two Iraqi fighters in the Babylon suburb, 50 miles south of
Baghdad. Nine of the dead were children, one a baby. Hospital workers said
as many as 33 civilians were killed.
Terrifying film of women and children later emerged after Reuters and the
Associated Press were permitted by the Iraqi authorities to take their
cameras into the town. Their pictures - the first by Western news agencies
from the Iraqi side of the battlefront - showed babies cut in half and
children with amputation wounds, apparently caused by American shellfire and
cluster bombs.
Much of the videotape was too terrible to show on television and the
agencies' Baghdad editors felt able to send only a few minutes of a
21-minute tape that included a father holding out pieces of his baby and
screaming "cowards, cowards'' into the camera. Two lorryloads of bodies,
including women in flowered dresses, could be seen outside the Hilla
hospital.
Dr Nazem el-Adali, who was trained in Edinburgh, said almost all the
patients were victims of cluster bombs dropped around Hella and in the
neighbouring village of Mazarak. One woman, Alia Mukhtaff, is seen lying
wounded on a bed; she lost six of her children and her husband in the
attacks. Another man is seen with an arm missing, and a second man, Majeed
Djelil, whose wife and two of his children were killed, can be seen sitting
next to his third and surviving child, whose foot is missing. The mortuary
of the hospital, a butcher's shop of chopped up corpses, is seen briefly in
the tape.
Iraqi officials have been insisting for 48 hours that the Americans have
used cluster bombs on civilians in the region but this is the first time
that evidence supporting these claims has come from Western news agencies.
Most of the wounded said they were hit by American munitions and one man
described how an American vehicle fired a shell into his family home. "I
could see an American flag,'' he says.
One of the editors in Baghdad, a European, when asked why he would not send
the full videotape to London, wound the pictures on to two mutilated corpses
of babies. "How could we ever send this?'' he said...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=393127
Children killed and maimed in bomb attack on town
By Robert Fisk in Baghdad and Justin Huggler
02 April 2003
At least 11 civilians, nine of them children, were killed in Hilla in
central Iraq yesterday, according to reporters in the town who said they
appeared to be the victims of bombing.
Reporters from the Reuters news agency said they counted the bodies of 11
civilians and two Iraqi fighters in the Babylon suburb, 50 miles south of
Baghdad. Nine of the dead were children, one a baby. Hospital workers said
as many as 33 civilians were killed.
Terrifying film of women and children later emerged after Reuters and the
Associated Press were permitted by the Iraqi authorities to take their
cameras into the town. Their pictures - the first by Western news agencies
from the Iraqi side of the battlefront - showed babies cut in half and
children with amputation wounds, apparently caused by American shellfire and
cluster bombs.
Much of the videotape was too terrible to show on television and the
agencies' Baghdad editors felt able to send only a few minutes of a
21-minute tape that included a father holding out pieces of his baby and
screaming "cowards, cowards'' into the camera. Two lorryloads of bodies,
including women in flowered dresses, could be seen outside the Hilla
hospital.
Dr Nazem el-Adali, who was trained in Edinburgh, said almost all the
patients were victims of cluster bombs dropped around Hella and in the
neighbouring village of Mazarak. One woman, Alia Mukhtaff, is seen lying
wounded on a bed; she lost six of her children and her husband in the
attacks. Another man is seen with an arm missing, and a second man, Majeed
Djelil, whose wife and two of his children were killed, can be seen sitting
next to his third and surviving child, whose foot is missing. The mortuary
of the hospital, a butcher's shop of chopped up corpses, is seen briefly in
the tape.
Iraqi officials have been insisting for 48 hours that the Americans have
used cluster bombs on civilians in the region but this is the first time
that evidence supporting these claims has come from Western news agencies.
Most of the wounded said they were hit by American munitions and one man
described how an American vehicle fired a shell into his family home. "I
could see an American flag,'' he says.
One of the editors in Baghdad, a European, when asked why he would not send
the full videotape to London, wound the pictures on to two mutilated corpses
of babies. "How could we ever send this?'' he said...
