Wikileaks cable suggests the US bombed a building to destroy evidence they executed

[Ares]

Wikileaks cable suggests the US bombed a building to destroy evidence they executed 10 handcuffed Iraqi civilians, including a woman, children under 5, and an infant.

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he Center for Reasearch on Globalization reports that Wikileaks has released cables that confirm the United States has been conducted targeted assassinations of Iraqi civilians.

The report, first reveals that the password to decrypt the full text of the full text of the unredacted cables has been leaked on the internet, allegedly by a Guardian reporter and then goes on to discuss the contents of the just released Wikileaks cable 59146.

Cable 59146 reveals one of the incidents of targeted assassinations in which the U.S. government tried to destroy evidence of the executions by bombing the building. The officials story was the building collapsed under heavy fire, but witnesses interviewed at the scene say 6 missiles fire by U.S. aircraft destroyed the building.

Unfortunately for the war criminals, autopsies of the bodies found in the building revealed at least 10 civilians found in the building were all handcuffed and shot in the head execution style before the building was bombed.

Even worse the victims including a woman in her 70′s and 5 children under the age of 5, including a 5 month infant.

The U.S. government then publicly covered up the executions by stating the deaths where the result of a building collapse that followed a search for ‘a foreign fighter facilitator for the Al Qaeda in Iraq network’ which the media reported without question.

First, from the Raw Story:



Graphic photographs show bodies of civilians killed in Ishaqi, Iraq

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Published: Friday June 2, 2006

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Photographs taken by Agence France Presse but not distributed by major US media outlets show the bodies of Iraqi civilians killed in March in a home in Ishaqi, Iraq. Those photographs — may of which are graphic and show the decaying bodies of children, some of them babies — are displayed below. Please do not scroll down if you do not wish to see these photos.

The photographs were discovered and highlighted by by Christopher Floyd of ChrisFloyd.com earlier this year.

According to Reuters report on the incident, the 11 bodies of men, women and children, including a 75-year old grandmother and a child under the age one one, were found bound in their blown-up home. All were shot in the head; the house was riddled with bullets. At the time, “The U.S. military said two women and a child died during the bid to seize an al Qaeda militant from a house.”

“A senior Iraqi police officer said autopsies on the bodies, which included five children, showed each had been shot in the head. Community leaders said they were outraged at the killings and demanded an explanation from the U.S. military,” Reuters reported. “Television footage showed the bodies in the Tikrit morgue — five children, two men and four women. Their wounds were not clear though one infant had a gaping head wound.”

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The photographs, quite graphic, follow.

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[Ares]

Cable details killing, coverup of family with small children by MNF in Iraq

September 1st, 2011 // 10:21 pm @ Erik Westermann

The following U.S. diplomatic cable describes the execution and coverup of a family in a town about 100km north of Baghdad, Iraq on March 15, 2006. The killings were the result of a Multi-national Force (MNF) investigation of the killing of two MNF soldiers sometime between March 6 and 11.

The shocking text speaks for itself. I have added bold and italics; however, the text of the original cable is unchanged:
“59146″,”4/3/2006 14:48″,”06GENEVA763″,”US Mission Geneva”,”UNCLASSIFIED”,”06USMISSIONGENEVA2006″,”R 031448Z APR 06
FM USMISSION GENEVA
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 9047
USMISSION USUN NEW YORK
“,”UNCLAS GENEVA 000763

STATE FOR IO/RHS, DRL/MLA, L/HRR

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM, UNHRC-1
SUBJECT: COMMUNICATION FROM SRS ON ESA EXECUTIONS REGARDING
AN MNF RAID IN IRAQ ON MARCH 15, 2006

1. Mission received a communication from Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, regarding a raid conducted by Multinational Forces on March 15, 2006 at the house of Faiz Harrat Al- Majma’ee in Iraq. This communication has been sent via e- mail to IO/RHS. This communication is number 8 on the Geneva 2006 Communications Log.

2. Begin text of letter:

27 March 2006

REFERENCE: AL G/SO 214 (33-23) USA 6/2006

Excellency,

I have the honour to address you in my capacity as Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution 2004/37.

I would like to draw the attention of your Government to information I have received regarding a raid conducted by the Multinational Forces (MNF) on 15 March 2006 in the house of Faiz Harrat Al-Majma’ee, a farmer living in the outskirts of Al-Iss Haqi District in Balad (Salah-El-Din Governorate).

I have received various reports indicating that at least 10 persons, namely Mr. Faiz Hratt Khalaf, (aged 28), his wife Sumay’ya Abdul Razzaq Khuther (aged 24), their three children Hawra’a (aged 5) Aisha ( aged 3) and Husam (5 months old), Faiz’s mother Ms. Turkiya Majeed Ali (aged 74), Faiz’s sister (name unknown), Faiz’s nieces Asma’a Yousif Ma’arouf (aged 5 years old), and Usama Yousif Ma’arouf (aged 3 years), and a visiting relative Ms. Iqtisad Hameed Mehdi (aged 23) were killed during the raid.

According to the information received, American troops approached Mr. Faiz’s home in the early hours of 15 March 2006. It would appear that when the MNF approached the house, shots were fired from it and a confrontation ensued for some 25 minutes. The MNF troops entered the house, handcuffed all residents and executed all of them. After the initial MNF intervention, a US air raid ensued that destroyed the house.

Iraqi TV stations broadcast from the scene and showed bodies of the victims (i.e. five children and four women) in the morgue of Tikrit. Autopsies carries out at the Tikrit Hospital’s morgue revealed that all corpses were shot in the head and handcuffed.

I am aware that the MNF confirmed that an air raid took place that day in Balad and that it caused an unconfirmed number of casualties. The US military attacked the house to capture members of Mr. Faiz Harrat Al-Majma’ee’s family on the basis that they were allegedly involved in the killing of two MNF soldiers who were killed between 6 to 11 March 2006 in the Al Haweeja area. The US military was further reported in the media as stating that MNF troops attacked the house in question to capture “a foreign fighter facilitator for the Al Qaeda in Iraq network”. Other reports indicate that over the past five months, there have been a significant number of lethal incidents in which the MNF is alleged to have used excessive force to respond to perceived threats either at checkpoints or by using air bombing in civilian areas.

In drawing the attention of your Excellency’s Government to this information and seeking clarification thereof, I am fully aware of the stance taken by your Government in correspondence with me regarding the mandate’s competence regarding killings that are said to have occurred within the context of an armed conflict (I refer to your Government’s letters dated 22 April 2003 and 8 April 2004). As explained in my report to the 61st Commission on Human Rights, as well as in letters to your Excellency’s Government of 26 August 2005 and 7 March 2006, however, not only the relevant formulation of the mandate but also the General Assembly in its resolutions and the now longstanding practice of the independent experts successively holding the mandate since its creation in 1982 make it clear that questions of humanitarian law fall squarely within the Special Rapporteur’s mandate (See E/CN.4/2005/7, at par. 45).

I would also recall that the Human Rights Committee has held that a State party can be held responsible for violations of rights under the Covenant where the violations are perpetrated by authorized agents of the State on foreign territory, “whether with the acquiescence of the Government of [the foreign State] or in opposition to it”. (See Lopez v. Uruguay, communication No.52/1979, CCPR/C/OP/1 at 88 (1984), paras. 12.1-12.3.)

Finally, I wish to remind you that UN GA Resolution 59/191 of 10 March 2005, in its paragraph 1, stresses that “States must ensure that any measure to combat terrorism complies with their obligation under international law, in particular international human right, refugee and humanitarian law”. Without in any way wishing to pre-judge the accuracy of the information received, I would be grateful for a reply to the following questions:

1. Are the facts alleged in the above summary of the case accurate? On what basis was it decided to kill, rather than capture, members of Mr. Faiz Harrat Al-Majma’ee’s family.

2. What rules of international law does your Excellency’s Government consider to govern these incidents? If your Excellency’s Government considers the incidents to have been governed by humanitarian law, please clarify which treaty instruments or customary norms are considered to apply.

3. What procedural safeguards, if any, were employed to ensure that these killings complied with international law?

4. Does your Excellency’s Government intend to provide compensation to Mr. Faiz Harrat Al-Majma’ee’s relatives.

It is my responsibility under the mandate provided to me by the Commission on Human Rights and reinforced by the appropriate resolutions of the General Assembly, to seek to clarify all such cases brought to my attention. Since I am expected to report on these cases to the Human Rights Council I would be grateful for your cooperation and your observations. I undertake to ensure that your Government’s response is accurately reflected in the reports I will submit to the Human Rights Council for its consideration.

Please accept, Excellency, the assurances of our highest consideration,

Philip Alston
Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions

End text of letter.

Download the original cable here (http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/239579/alston-59146-ishaqi.pdf) (PDF file)
Alternately, download ‘cable.csv’ and search for cable 59146

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[Canadian-guerilla]

the US spreading democracy and freedom again ?


Ron Paul on Blowback (http://mises.org/daily/2588)

" If we think that we can do what we want around the world and not incite hatred, then we have a problem. They don't come here to attack us because we're rich and we're free. They come and they attack us because we're over there. I mean, what would we think if we were –if other foreign countries were doing that to us?"


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relatives, friends and neighbours will remember this bombing for years

and tell their kids / next generation

[osoab]

the US spreading democracy and freedom again ?


Ron Paul on Blowback (http://mises.org/daily/2588)

" If we think that we can do what we want around the world and not incite hatred, then we have a problem. They don't come here to attack us because we're rich and we're free. They come and they attack us because we're over there. I mean, what would we think if we were –if other foreign countries were doing that to us?"


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relatives, friends and neighbours will remember this bombing for years

and tell their kids / next generation


I have used that exact same argument with people. The what if the shoe was on the other foot analogy.

People seem to understand, but they either don't care or have been truly duped into believe that all arabs want to kill Westerners.

[Horn]

People seem to understand, but they either don't care or have been truly duped into believe that all arabs want to kill Westerners.

They're just too busy pushing and shoving at the feeding trough.

http://hodja.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/evolution_20of_20men_small.jpg

[Large Sarge]

Wikileaks suggests U.S. Bombed a building (Assange has become a 9/11 truther)

;)

[PatColo]

the US spreading democracy and freedom again ?


Ron Paul on Blowback (http://mises.org/daily/2588)

" If we think that we can do what we want around the world and not incite hatred, then we have a problem. They don't come here to attack us because we're rich and we're free. They come and they attack us because we're over there. I mean, what would we think if we were –if other foreign countries were doing that to us?"




RP can return his "SCARY MOOZLEMIST BLOWBACK" flatulence right back to the stinkhole from which it came.

He's enshrining the "scary moozlems attacked us on 911, scary moozlems wanna eat your babies!!:o:o" zio-mythology.

Guess what? And I mean besides the self-evident facts that scary moozemismists didn't attack us on 911 (http://davidraygriffin.com/articles/was-america-attacked-by-muslims-on-911/), however scary zionist talmud-thumpers did (http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?23130-The-quot-Israel-did-9-11-quot-Thread)... no, what I mean to point out is, the average Arab understands infinitely better than the average American troop/J6P, who pulls the strings in the west:


"I was speaking the other day with Scott Pelley of CBS News's "60 Minutes" about the mood in Iraq. He had just returned from filming a piece there and he told me something disturbing. Scott had gone around and asked Iraqis on the streets what they called American troops - wondering if they had nicknames for us in the way we used to call the Nazis "Krauts" or the Vietcong "Charlie." And what did he find? "Many Iraqis have so much distrust for U.S. forces we found they've come up with a nickname for our troops," Scott said. "They call American soldiers 'The Jews,' as in, 'Don't go down that street, the Jews set up a roadblock.' [...]"
-- Thomas Freidman, NY Times Op Ed: "Jews, Israel, and America (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/opinion/24friedman.html?pagewanted=print&position=)"


also note:
Thread: Egyptians Break Into Israel Embassy In Cairo. (http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?53999-Egyptians-Break-Into-Israel-Embassy-In-Cairo.)

...those SCARY MOOZLEMISTS understand how things really work... good on them 8)

[Canadian-guerilla]

RP can return his "SCARY MOOZLEMIST BLOWBACK" flatulence right back to the stinkhole from which it came.

He's enshrining the "scary moozlems attacked us on 911, scary moozlems wanna eat your babies!!:o:o" zio-mythology.


i think RP knows what he's up against regarding the zionist influence in washington

anyone know if RP ever mentioned his " blowback " theory before 9/11 ?

[Joe King]

"Blowback" isn't a theory. When you give enough grief to any people, at some point they strike back. No theory about it.

[Canadian-guerilla]

"Blowback" isn't a theory. When you give enough grief to any people, at some point they strike back. No theory about it.

ok, i guess i worded that wrong

does anyone know if RP talked about " blowback " before 9/11 ?