Eight people were killed in the Basra explosion, which residents believed was caused by a US air strike.
AgenciesPublished: April 07, 2008, 10:24
Basra: An explosion has destroyed a house in Basra and rescue workers were trying to pull out bodies from the debris, Iraqi police said on Monday. Eight people were killed in the explosion overnight, which residents believed was caused by a US air strike. Television footage showed relatives wailing in grief and children picking through the rubble. British forces responsible for US-British military activity in the area, denied any role in the blast. "Coalition and Iraqi security forces were not involved in the incident," they said in a statement.
Neighbors in the Hayaniyah area are examining the rubble of a house they said was destroyed in an air strike Friday evening in the militia stronghold of Basra, Iraq, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Saturday. April 5. 2008.
Police said five people were killed and nine injured in the strike (click here), acknowledging they included an unspecified number of militants (other wise known as local militia) who had fired a mortar at Iraqi security forces. British military spokesman Maj. Tom Holloway said an attack helicopter hit a position from which militants were firing at Iraqi forces in Hayaniyah, but he gave no information about casualties and did not specify whether the aircraft was U.S. or British. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
NOW. There was a bomb dropped on unsuspecting people that were not engaged in any warfare, simply killed for the sake of killing. The people being pulled from the rubble according to 'the locals' were LOCALS. While the RHETORIC of the USA/British military, still occupying the area, state they know nothing about any bomb drop as to whether it was British or USA and are stating it was militants. YET. That was YET, the bodies were still being pulled from the rubble and remain unidentified !
In Vietnam, the people became the enemy. The citizens of South and North Vietnam became the enemy. The enemy was indistinguishable from average citizens, innocent people, if there is such a thing, were killed, so were their children and soon after children became more then 'child soldiers' they became bombs that would exploid when children walked into American and South Vietnamese encampments.
If the citizens reports of an airstrike are markedly different than that of the occupying Western military it is because they live opposing realities. To the citizens of Bosra, their militias have always protected them. The militias protected them from Saddam and today as far as they are concerned their militias protect them from the lethal politics of the Green Zone Iraqis, Shi'ites or not.
It is time to end this travesty the Republicans call a war and stop the killing. When the USA forces leave NOTHING will change in Basra because the USA DOES NOT MAINTAIN order Basra, the militias do. The militias always have and the militias always will.
