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January 03, 2006

More "Collateral Damage"

Three men are spotted, engaged in suspicious, potentially murderous activity. They are followed to a house, which they enter. What should government agents do?

If they are agents of the U.S. government in Iraq, they bomb the house, killing as many as 14 people, including at least 2 children--all this to catch 3 men who may or may not have planted a roadside bomb.

The story says that the men were spotted by a reconnaissance drone, "apparently digging a hole . . . 'following the common pattern of roadside bomb emplacements.'" It further says that the military has not confirmed that a roadside bomb was found, which probably means that one wasn't.

Take note, too, that bombers followed the men from the alleged bomb planting to the house, and only then did they proceed to blast everyone to smithereens. Killing the men somewhere along the way would have been more justifiable than murdering everyone in a house that they happened to enter and letting Allah sort them out.

Killing 11 possibly innocent people in order to get 3 possibly (but by no means certainly) guilty ones: That's about par for the course when one works for the world's largest organized crime ring, the United States government.

(Thanks to Antiwar.com for the link.)

Posted by Mike Tennant at January 3, 2006 11:47 AM

Comments

Accidental deaths in war are unavoidable and are especially so in this type of asymmetrical guerilla insurgency. Which is no excuse not to try to though.

This is all the more reason not to get involved in these kinds of wars too.

Posted by: Ali_Massoud [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 4, 2006 09:19 AM

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