Winning the propaganda war
Think you've heard it all? Think that there can't possibly be any more disgraceful stories to come out of Iraq? Sorry.
U.S. soldiers caught planting weapons on dead, injured, and detained Iraqi teens
Cryptome.org has released a series of sixteen photographs which show U.S. soldiers placing weapons in front of a group of dead, injured, and apprehended young Iraqi teens, with the apparent goal of framing them as enemy combattants. These photos, taken on Oct. 22nd, 2004 in Buhriz, Iraq show nine photographs taken of dead and wounded Iraqi teenagers, followed by an additional seven photos taken slightly later, in which the same teens were photographed with an RPG launcher and grenades planted in front of their bodies. By all appearances, the same RPG launcher and rocket propelled grenades were inserted into each shot. Clear examples of this can be seen in several of the "before and after" shots.
The pictures, which were previously sent to New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh for investigation, were unfortunately not released by him, although he did comment on them in a recent interview on Democracy Now. "Young kids, I don’t know how old, 13, 15, I guess . . . you see soldiers dropping R.P.G.'s, which are rocket-launched grenades around them. And then they're called in as an insurgent kill. It's a kill of, you know, would-be insurgents or resistance and it goes into the computers, and I'm sure it's briefed. Everybody remembers how My Lai was briefed as a great victory, “128 Vietcong killed.” And so you have that pattern again."
While the exact motive for U.S. soldiers planting weapons in front of these Iraqi teens has not been established at this time, there is a strong possibility that several of the Iraqi teens who survived the incident are being held in places such as Abu Ghraib, where they face the possibility of abuse, indefinite detention, and possibly execution. Please take the time to contact your congressional representatives, local media sources, and let others know about these photos, requesting that an open, transparent investigation be launched into the events of October 22nd, 2004 so that the rights of these teens and other Iraqi civilians are respected in the future.
U.S. soldiers caught planting weapons on dead, injured, and detained Iraqi teens
Cryptome.org has released a series of sixteen photographs which show U.S. soldiers placing weapons in front of a group of dead, injured, and apprehended young Iraqi teens, with the apparent goal of framing them as enemy combattants. These photos, taken on Oct. 22nd, 2004 in Buhriz, Iraq show nine photographs taken of dead and wounded Iraqi teenagers, followed by an additional seven photos taken slightly later, in which the same teens were photographed with an RPG launcher and grenades planted in front of their bodies. By all appearances, the same RPG launcher and rocket propelled grenades were inserted into each shot. Clear examples of this can be seen in several of the "before and after" shots.
The pictures, which were previously sent to New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh for investigation, were unfortunately not released by him, although he did comment on them in a recent interview on Democracy Now. "Young kids, I don’t know how old, 13, 15, I guess . . . you see soldiers dropping R.P.G.'s, which are rocket-launched grenades around them. And then they're called in as an insurgent kill. It's a kill of, you know, would-be insurgents or resistance and it goes into the computers, and I'm sure it's briefed. Everybody remembers how My Lai was briefed as a great victory, “128 Vietcong killed.” And so you have that pattern again."
While the exact motive for U.S. soldiers planting weapons in front of these Iraqi teens has not been established at this time, there is a strong possibility that several of the Iraqi teens who survived the incident are being held in places such as Abu Ghraib, where they face the possibility of abuse, indefinite detention, and possibly execution. Please take the time to contact your congressional representatives, local media sources, and let others know about these photos, requesting that an open, transparent investigation be launched into the events of October 22nd, 2004 so that the rights of these teens and other Iraqi civilians are respected in the future.
posted by phylos @ 20:21
1 Comments:
I wish I was surprised..but I am not
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