[Marxism] Wedding slaughter protested by allies, Iraqi officials

["Fred Feldman" <ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Via NY Transfer News Collective  *  All the News that Doesn't Fit


[In the face of their own hand-picked Iraqi officials saying the
US had slaughtered civilians, and AP Television News video showing
the bodies of women and children being buried, with their familiy
members weeping over them, the US military was still claiming 12
hours later that they had hit a safehouse full of foreign devils,
and not a village wedding party. - NY Transfer]

  The slaughter in Iraq is "the last thing we need right now," said one
  minister last night. "Its like a nightmare - every time you think it
  can't get any worse, the Americans come up with another disaster."

sent by Dave Muller (southnews)

The Scotsman Thu 20 May 2004
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=573492004

Carelessness 'defies belief' in US attack on Iraqi wedding

by John Innes

THE reported United States attack on Iraqis celebrating a wedding will
undermine coalition attempts to win back support amid the growing
prisoner abuse scandal, according to Sir Menzies Campbell, the Lib Dem
foreign affairs spokesman.

"The carelessness of American forces in attacking a wedding party simply

defies belief," Sir Menzies said. "It is hardly surprising that they
find our protestations of regret unconvincing."

Alice Mahon, a Labour MP and veteran anti-war campaigner, said the
incident was proof that the US mission to stabilise and pacify Iraq is
doomed, because a military force will never win the support of an
occupied people.

"This atrocity just shows that the American policy is just a disaster,"
she said. "They must learn that they can never hope to win the hearts of

the Iraqi people through force. The occupying forces should leave now,
and the UN should take over the transfer to civilian rule."

The slaughter in Iraq is "the last thing we need right now," said one
minister last night. "Its like a nightmare - every time you think it
can't get any worse, the Americans come up with another disaster."

There are fears the incident will further radicalise Muslim opinion
against the coalition. In Iran yesterday, tens of thousands of
demonstrators, some throwing stones and petrol bombs at the British
Embassy, protested about damage suffered by Shiite Muslim shrines in
fighting between US troops and militiamen swearing allegiance to radical

cleric, Muqtatda al-Sadr.

The protest was the largest so far of demonstrations that have been held

for the last four days in predominantly Shiite Iran.

Irans leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the fighting in Iraq will
"bring America closer, step by step, to the precipice," the Islamic
Republic News Agency reported. "They thought they could easily win this
complicated game. But definitely they wont win. They will experience
the bitter taste of defeat."


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