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Wikileaks Cables Reveal US Cold-blooded Killing of Iraqis in 2006
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A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence, during a controversial 2006 incident in the central Iraqi town of Ishaqi.
According to the US-based Bellingham Herald newspaper, the unclassified Wikileaks cable contained questions from a United Nations investigator about the incident, which had angered local Iraqi officials. U.S. officials denied at the time that anything inappropriate had occurred.
Philip Alston, the U.N.'s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said in a communication to American officials dated 12 days after the March 15, 2006, incident that autopsies performed in the Iraqi city of Tikrit showed that all the dead had been handcuffed and shot in the head, among which were 4 women and 5 children. The children were all 5 years old and younger.
Ishaqi, about 80 miles northwest of Baghdad, not far from Saddam Hussein's hometown, Tikrit, was considered so dangerous at the time that U.S. military officials had classified all roads in the area as "black," meaning they were likely to be booby-trapped with roadside bombs.
The US military claimed that an al-Qaeda suspect had been seized from a house in the area. But according to the cable, the US troops called in an airstrike on the house to destroy any evidence of the murders after the deadly incident. Washington has not provided any response to Alston's questions yet.
A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence, during a controversial 2006 incident in the central Iraqi town of Ishaqi.
According to the US-based Bellingham Herald newspaper, the unclassified Wikileaks cable contained questions from a United Nations investigator about the incident, which had angered local Iraqi officials. U.S. officials denied at the time that anything inappropriate had occurred.
Philip Alston, the U.N.'s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said in a communication to American officials dated 12 days after the March 15, 2006, incident that autopsies performed in the Iraqi city of Tikrit showed that all the dead had been handcuffed and shot in the head, among which were 4 women and 5 children. The children were all 5 years old and younger.
Ishaqi, about 80 miles northwest of Baghdad, not far from Saddam Hussein's hometown, Tikrit, was considered so dangerous at the time that U.S. military officials had classified all roads in the area as "black," meaning they were likely to be booby-trapped with roadside bombs.
The US military claimed that an al-Qaeda suspect had been seized from a house in the area. But according to the cable, the US troops called in an airstrike on the house to destroy any evidence of the murders after the deadly incident. Washington has not provided any response to Alston's questions yet.
Alston said that US administration has left many such inquiries "in the 2006-2007 period" unanswered.
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