Ramadi Becomes Another Fallujah (sniper free-fire zone)

[Barrett808]

Ramadi Becomes Another Fallujah
Brian Conley

AMMAN, Jun 5 (IPS) - These days, Ramadi is nearly impossible to enter. Against the backdrop of the Haditha massacre, IPS has received reports of civilians killed by snipers, and homes occupied with American snipers on their roof, while families were detained downstairs.

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Sheikh Majeed al-Ga'oud is from Wahaj al-Iraq village just outside Ramadi, and visits the city regularly. He also described snipers killing without discretion.

"The American snipers don't make any distinction between civilians or fighters, anything that moves, he shoots immediately. This is a very dirty thing, they are killing lots of civilians who are not fighters."

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"The way is blocked, not by concrete, but by snipers. Anyone who goes ahead in the street will be killed. There's no sign that it's not allowed, but it's known to the local people. Many people came to visit us from Baghdad. They didn't know this and they went ahead a few metres and were killed."

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http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33489

[AlamoDemoc]

1. Ramadi,, Samara, Haditha, Falluja,...we are learning these towns

after saddam's fall....no wonder!

[TomInTib]

2. Think about it. Pinned down day after day..

That kind of shit will make you crazy for the rest of your life.

k&r

[Selatius]

3. Gee, if this is how we fight, why not carpet bomb the fucking place then

If you want to kill indiscriminately, you may as well use carpet-bombing techniques because you're just killing everybody that moves anyway. After all, what does it matter to the dead how they died?

This is Viet Nam.

[brokensymmetry]

4. Speaking of hearts and minds...

from the article:

The Iraqi friend witnessed the killing of a young boy. "He was going to his school at about eight in the morning, carrying his books and crossing the street. Suddenly he fell down. I thought he just had a problem in his leg and fell, but he stayed for a long time like this. I knew or I felt there was a sniper who shot him."

Stories such as this one are common amongst Ramadi's residents.

"Haithem, one of the brothers of this kid, tried to find a way and took two steps to take the boy away. Snipers shot and missed him. So he didn't try again. The boy remained there four hours, bleeding. He had been shot in the head." (END/2006)

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Wow.

[FairVotes4all]

5. Sure, We are winning the hearts and minds....

...all you have to do is take them off the corpses :sarcasm: