A family's tragedy in the fog of war

[NeoConsSuck]

Father says all four kids died after U.S. tank fired on car

Even as Daham Kassim sits in his brother-in-law's comfortable suburban St. Louis home, his thoughts constantly turn back to his native Iraq and the tragic events that brought him to the United States.

On or about March 25, 2003, the beginning of the Iraq war, Daham, his wife, Gufran, his brother, and their four young children piled into the family's white Peugeot and headed north out of Nasiriya to escape the chaotic U.S. bombing and fighting.

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Daham says he stopped his car and after about a minute the tanks opened fire, instantly killing his 2-year-old and 9-year-old daughters.

He says two American troops approached his car. He remembers they called themselves "Chris" and "Joe."

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The U.S. military cannot confirm or accept responsibility for the incident involving the Kassim family.

A spokesman for the U.S. Marine Corps said the Marines found "an incident reported up the chain of command that appears similar to what Mr. Kassim tells CNN."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/08/iraq.family.tragedy/index.html

[riverwalker]

1. they did the story on Paula Zahn

just now with Candy Crowley reporting. They actually said "25,000 Iraqi civilians have died, no one knows how many injured". Considering the source, it was done halfway fair. Although the end was kind of like "Yes, the Americans shot off your leg and killed your two babies, but see how nice we are? We gave you a free prosthesis and a few weeks of therapy to walk on it. Ain't we wonderful?"