Kimmitt PROVEN a liar...AP Exclusive: Video Film of Wedding Party!!!!

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBL36ONLUD.html

RAMADI, Iraq (AP) - The bride arrives in a white pickup truck and is quickly ushered into a house by a group of women. Outside, men recline on brightly colored silk pillows, relaxing on the carpeted floor of a large goat-hair tent as boys dance to tribal songs.
The videotape obtained Sunday by Associated Press Television News captures a wedding party that survivors say was later attacked by U.S. planes early Wednesday, killing up to 45 people. The dead included the cameraman, Yasser Shawkat Abdullah, hired to record the festivities, which ended Tuesday night before the planes struck.

The U.S. military says it is investigating the attack, which took place in the village of Mogr el-Deeb about five miles from the Syrian border, but that all evidence so far indicates the target was a safehouse for foreign fighters.

"There was no evidence of a wedding: no decorations, no musical instruments found, no large quantities of food or leftover servings one would expect from a wedding celebration," Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said Saturday. "There may have been some kind of celebration. Bad people have celebrations, too."

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FUCKIN' WAR CRIMINALS. PERIOD.

JB

[Nlighten1]

1. Nothing to see here...

[saigon68]

137. NO RAPE ROOMS ANYMORE-----THE CHIMPANZEE




"The Iraqi people are now free. And they do not have to worry about the secret police coming
after them in the middle of the night, and they don't have to worry about their husbands and
brothers being taken off and shot, or their wives being taken to rape rooms. Those days are
over."——Paul Bremer, Administrator, Coalition Provisional Authority, Sept. 2, 2003

"Iraq is free of rape rooms and torture chambers."——President Bush, remarks to 2003
Republican National Committee Presidential Gala, Oct. 8, 2003

“One thing is for certain: There won't be any more mass graves and torture rooms and rape
rooms."——Bush, press availability in Monterrey, Mexico. Jan. 12, 2004

[blackmoonlillith]

2. Kimmitt told us to turn off the tv if we didn't want to

see dead women and children in Iraq. I guess he meant it.

[Red_Viking]

10. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

RV

[0007]

27. Welcome home young lady!

:hi:

[blackmoonlillith]

43. Red-Viking and 0007

Thanks... Great to be home again;-)

[Tight_rope]

59. From one Newbie Texas DUer to another...Welcome!

DU is the "light in the tunnel".

All Hail to DU!

[Pachamama]

115. More Newbie Texas DU'ers....their showing up in flocks these days!

This is great! I can't wait to see Texas go with the Dem's against Bush!

:kick:

[SammyWinstonJack]

131. Wouldn't that be great!

* would never live that down!

[sandnsea]

3. We didn't even do this to the Mafia

Sure, maybe terrorists are having a wedding, who knows. But the stupidity of blowing up a wedding, no matter who is having it, and then denying it and lying about it... they're all a bunch of fucktards.

[leesa]

86. To do it once might be stupid, but we are on the fourth or fifth

wedding we've blown up. Can you say 'terrorism'? I knew you could.

[annak110]

4. This Kimmitt appears to be a

fucking fascist nitwit for sure...I think they target these celebrations for practice after becoming bored when there is nobody to kill otherwise, this is the second or third wedding and there may have been more at which people died from bombing forays.

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

12. He's not a nitwit. He's just a fascist and minister of misinformation.

All is wonderful in Iraqi. All is wonderful in Iraqi.

You don't need independent media in Iraqi. Dan and I will tell you everything you need to know. :)

JB

[atreides1]

85. Kimmitt = SS, Senor=Gestapo

It's not only Kimmitt, all of the general officers are loyal to BushCo, and can no longer be trusted by the American people.

They cannot be counted on to follow their oath of defending the Constitution, and the military may very well be on it's way to becoming the new Praetorian Guard, or maybe the Waffen SS. Not sure
which description is worse

Anyone who has studied history will know what I'm referring to.

[saigon68]

88. THE 3 NITWITS IN IRAQ



KRAZY KILLER KIMMITT enforcer for the Viceroy Pontius Paul Bremer I

His quote " if you don’t like watching women and children die, change the channel."



SORRY SANCHEZ a/k/a Pistol Boy consiglieri to the Viceroy Pontius Bremer I

His quote “ We are going to Kill the Shia Cleric Criminal Muqtada al-Sadr !! ”




"Senor" Sleeze Senor mouth piece for the Viceroy Pontius Bremer I

His quote, “We must “cleanse “ this country of the divisive elements” !



[Barrett808]

90. Someday history texts are going to reproduce your photo editorials, Saigon

You should collect them into a book.

[saigon68]

92. too much time on my hands

too much anger too.

Thanks for the props. I am putting together some new ones

Did you see Andy Rooney Tonight ?? ---He was awesome

[Barrett808]

96. Not yet -- on the W. coast! n/t

[Pachamama]

116. Senor creeps me out....and what's with the suits?

Where did they get this guy? Do they think if they dress him up in Double-breasted suits, we'll think he's a Wall Street guy and not Gestapo?

[daleo]

5. Prediction: Kimmet will say even terrorists get married

Under his breath he will be saying "Now why didn't someone make sure to destroy the film".

It is a very sad story, and very convincing regarding the fact that it had been a wedding.

[TahitiNut]

105. Yeah, welll even "bad people" deserve a trial before execution.

This is unpardonable arrogance. Chalk up another War Crime for the Busholini Brigade.

[Red_Viking]

6. Bad people have celebrations, too???

That's the best he can do? Kee-rist. And he's in charge?

I loved the spin on NPR last week. They reported the military found "weapons, cash, passports, and satellite equipment." Well, duh. At a wedding, imagine that, they had cash, probably gifts, and passports, which is what they all use for ID. Weapons? Yeah, in case you've been under a rock, they fire weapons into the air in celebration. Satellite equipment? It turned out later to be phones, which is the only reliable way to communicate now. I assumed someone was unfortunate enough to have a satellite dish on their house so they could watch TV, whenever the electricity decided to kick in.

These people are a horror show. Make it stop.

RV

[NNN0LHI]

32. Someone asked Kimmitt how much money in US dollars equals...

...the 2 million Iraqi Dinars they said they found. His answer was about a thousand dollars US.

Don

[Tatiana]

78. Unfuckingbelievable!

I fucking hate these people. Every single fucking last one of them. Simply removing them from office ain't enough. I want them all criminally prosecuted for treason.

[ze_dscherman]

124. Please add the war crimes

And prosecution should be done by an International court. Also, don't forget war reparations.

[doni_georgia]

126. To these people the whole world is black and white

It's like they're living in a fucking John Wayne movie! "Bad people have celebrations too," that's the calling card of this administration. We're the "good people" and everyone else are "bad people." No one in this administration will admit to any mistakes - EVER! This whole freaking war has been one cluster fuck after another. We're there because of intelligence mistakes. But to Bushco, there are no mistakes made by Americans. When American soldiers get caught doing something wrong - it's a "few bad apples." If the American people wake up and start to accept this AP story, Kimmet will pass the blame to someone else - saying, "well our intelligence reports told us these were terrorists . . ." Waking up each day, reading the news, is like living in some horrible nightmare! I thought we had learned our lesson in Vietnam. I can't stand this. When are the Amiercan people going to wake up?

[boobooday]

7. Bad people have celebrations too

As proven by Bush's inauguration?

Disgusting.



http://www.wgoeshome.com

[Media_Lies_Daily]

8. Stick a fork in Kimmitt...he's done to a crisp. What a lying asshole.

[jdj]

95. culturally speaking

does anyone know what the customs for an iraqi wedding are?

There is no food in the pictures I have seen so why is Kimmitt assuming a gorge fest with big haired girls in tacky dresses?

Riverbend said that Iraq was awash with bullets on the day Hussein was captured. For hours people fired guns into the air, and they weren't shot.

[Mokito]

134. jdjkkse, this site could help you along

with everything you want to know about Iraqi culture, history and society (or any other country of interest).

EDUCYPEDIA

country list

Iraq

[truthisfreedom]

9. that story is heartbreaking. be forewarned. my stomach aches.

i'm going outside to put my "support the troops, bring them home" sign back up in the yard. my neighbors are going to hate me, but i have to do it. this is completely unacceptable.

[mhr]

11. Only One Proper Response - **** You George W. Bush

Bush Lied and Thousands Dies!

[madrchsod]

13. i want to see the video

i want the video out on the internet so the whole world will see. i`m tried of my government lying to me and in my name to the rest of the world....

[cjbuchanan]

14. So...

will they say that there is no proof that this is the wedding in question?

[belladonna]

17. They can try, but I think this proves otherwise

"Prominently displayed on the videotape was a stocky man with close-cropped hair playing an electric organ. Another tape, filmed a day later in Ramadi and obtained by APTN, showed the musician lying dead in a burial shroud - his face clearly visible and wearing the same tan shirt as he wore when he performed."

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

19. They can't. Video of dead matches video of living day before.

The famous Iraqi wedding singer who was found dead the day after the massacre is featured in the video wearing the same outfit...read the article.

JB

[Columbia]

65. They'll just say he was part of the insurgency

The wedding singer thing was just a cover, didn't you konw? I mean, c'mon, really who still gets wedding singers for weddings these days anyway? That is so 1980's!

[sophie996]

20. YOU BET

i wonder if the footage is time/date stamped for authentication? story doesn't say.

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

23. Aren't we getting into "common sense" territory now??

Jesus, how much more weight can be given to the evidence that the US killed 45 civilians during a wedding? Seems like the preponderance of effort should be on the US military to prove it otherwise, but all I've seen so far is the typical "take our word for it" excuse.

JB

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

37. Dog, meet homework.

[Pachamama]

117. They just said it "wasn't necessarily the wedding in question"...

...just said it on tonite's news....

Try this instead:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1221658,00.html

Absolutely sickening....The image of the mother and her three children is going to be in my mind's eye for ever...I have two children, I can't even imagine the horror...

[Minstrel Boy]

15. Who ya gonna believe? Your lying eyes or General Kimmitt?

A couple of weeks ago, America saw a video of Nick Berg being murdered in an orange suit resembling US prison garb, in a room the same colour and texture as Abu Ghraib, and could hear an American voice at the end of the tape. And US authorities change their story, and say he was never in their custody.

For 40 years, America's had video that suggests John F Kennedy was shot from the front.

Who notices? Who cares? What is ever done about it?

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

16. Difference between Saddam gassing Kurds and the US wedding murders??

Next time someone says, "well, there's no WMD, but all it takes is one look at those photos of the dead Kurds gassed by Saddam to know what we did was right."

I'll say, "and, we just mowed down 45 innocent people in the middle of a wedding...what's your point?"

BLOOD IS ON OUR HANDS. TAX DOLLARS PAID FOR THESE KILLINGS.

JB

[nolabels]

24. At this point it's not called taxes, more like extortion and fraud

A healthy dose of embezzlement to be sure.

Who in the heck did you think AWOL-Fraud sent over there anyway, the boys scouts?

[keithyboy]

34. I hate being in this position, but tell me if I am wrong:

Weren't the Kurds trying to overthrow Saddam's government (evil as it was)? But what head of state, dictatorial or otherwise would not have done the same thing? Do you believe that if a group of anti-war folks decided to try to overthrow the Bush regime, they wouldn't be killed and buried? THINK KENT STATE!!!

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

41. what makes it worse is the fact that the Kurds rose up because of US.

George Bush the First pussied out at the last moment and left the Iraqi insurgent movement hanging. The blood of those gassed Kurds is on Bush Sr. hands just as much as Saddam's.

JB

[Cocoa]

18. no more video cameras allowed in Iraq

new edict coming soon.

[kvnf]

22. That would remind too much

of the opening of Dr. Strangelove, where General Ripper orders Mandrake to confiscate all privately owned radios...

Please, let it not be so...That kind of stuff is supposed to be comedy, not reality.

[mom cat]

89. The army just banned cell phones with cameras.

I think that this is just for the prisons but of course these things always start small. Bush knows that his worst enemy is a picture of the truth.

[OKNancy]

21. There have been many horrible stories out of Iraq

and I don't know why it is, but this incident just enrages me more than any other. The insanity of it. The lies. The utter lack of caring about what they were doing.

And if these were such bad people, why haven't we heard of any arrests?
They had ground troops on the scene. Did they just think they killed everyone? They took NO ONE into custody and as far as I know still haven't. None of the survivors have been charged with anything (that I have read about )

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

25. Because it was a WEDDING. A sacred passage in one's life.

It would have been just as bad if it was a baptism or some other ceremony of note. We empathize with the victims because we can envision a wedding...it's not foreign to our understanding. This incident brings home the notion that the Iraqis are human, too.

JB

[Cocoa]

30. he's also calling these people liars

normal people that survived an unimaginable horror, and lost their family members in a horrible manner, on a festive occasion.

And the "liberators" are calling them liars!

Talk about injustice, it has got to be unbearable. It's barely bearable for me.

[OKNancy]

38. That must be it

I was having trouble figuring out my own reaction.
What do you think of my other point....no arrests. How can they explain that?

[Cocoa]

66. it's an excellent point

their version makes no sense. I wonder if the press corps there in Baghdad is pressing these people on these points. It sure doesn't seem like it from the reports I've seen, it seems they're reporting the military's statements as facts, and the Iraqis' claims as lies.

[tishaLA]

121. Wow.

Thanks for that post. It's amazingly powerful to me. :thumbsup:

[minkyboodle]

72. Its the lies Nancy

the flippant and disgusting way they have lied about it combined with the preponderance of evidence against them. We live in sad times right now.

[Blasphemer]

26. What an a-hole

"No evidence of a wedding" - meaning what exactly? I guess if you can't see inside a school, there is no evidence of children being inside. Next they will try to convince us that these "bad" people were using a wedding as a cover for nefarious activity.

[Cooley Hurd]

28. Sanchez:"I don't give a flying crap that the terr'sts are having a party!"

"Hit 'em, hit 'em, HIT 'EM!!!"

[Judi Lynn]

52. Damned right. General Curtis LeMay must be dancing in his grave! n/t

[keithyboy]

29. How in the name of humanity can the media allow the US to get away with

this crap!! If we can't do anything else can we bombard the US Congress with this story and hopefully they can get copies of the video. There has to be at LEAST ONE Congressperson with a moral fiber who is not owned and controlled by the neocons! Please tell me there is ONE!!

This is just heartbreaking!!

[Bluebear]

31. Anti-war protests everywhere in the world, why not here?

Are people that blinded, afraid, too busy with American Idol and Trista bachelorette, what?

[truthisfreedom]

35. i've thought about this a lot, and i think i know why. Kerry hasn't stood

against the war, and the liberals who would have protested are holding their breath waiting for the election because they don't want to introduce fracture to the unity we have at the moment. there is so much confusion, truthfully, over whether it would be better for us to leave as fast as possible or stick it out somehow... at this point, i say leave. just get out and force the UN's hand.

[Disturbed]

46. War Crimes

The BushCo Regime reeks. The Pentagon investigating the Military is like a murderer in charge of investigating his own aleged murders.

Amerika has shifted into The Twilight Zone of Carnage.

[Pachamama]

118. I sent an email to my Congresswoman today about the Wedding...

...and to think there are still Repukes who are calling in to talk shows all "outraged over the outrage" and wanting to be outraged about Nick Berg....I am sorry for the pain of the Berg family, what happened to their son was awful...

Imagine the pain of these people and the Mother who saw her two sons blown up, one of them being "decapitated" by American soldiers...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1221658,00.html

Sick, sick sick...just when you thought it can't get worse...

:cry:

[deutsey]

33. Reminds me a David Rovics lyric

about an accidental bombing of an Afghan village:

In the village where nothing happened
The houses collapsed in the morn
Not one terrorist died there
But maybe some were born

[Jacobin]

36. I hope the AP puts the tape on a website so it can be seen

Kimmit the goddamned liar needs to be in a war crimes trial. Lying fucker.

[Robbien]

39. Google shows this story is being picked up by the major news sites

Good, I was a little worried they may have taken a pass on it.

[leftchick]

44. I pray it makes it to CBS evening news tonight...

Lying bastard. How the fuck does he sleep at night... :puke:

[truthisfreedom]

51. THIS STORY IS TAKING OFF... check out the list of publications already

using it (from news.google.com)

RAMADI, Iraq (AP) The bride arrives in a white pickup...
Boston Globe, MA - 48 minutes ago
By Scheherezade Faramarzi, Associated Press, 5/23/2004 17:20. RAMADI, Iraq (AP) The bride arrives in a white pickup truck and is ...


AP: Video Shows Iraq Wedding Celebration
Guardian, UK - 29 minutes ago
By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI. RAMADI, Iraq (AP) - A videotape obtained Sunday by Associated Press Television News captures a wedding ...


Video shows wedding party before alleged attack
AZ Central.com, AZ - 24 minutes ago
RAMADI, Iraq - The bride arrives in a white pickup truck and is quickly ushered into a house by a group of women. Outside, men recline ...


AP: Video shows Iraq wedding celebration
Times Picayune, LA - 24 minutes ago
By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI. RAMADI, Iraq (AP) — A videotape obtained Sunday by Associated Press Television News captures a wedding ...


AP: Video shows Iraq wedding celebration
Penn Live, PA - 37 minutes ago
By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI. RAMADI, Iraq (AP) — The bride arrives in a white pickup truck and is quickly ushered into a house by a group of women. ...


AP: Video Shows Iraq Wedding Celebration
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL - 41 minutes ago
By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI. RAMADI, Iraq -- The bride arrives in a white pickup truck and is quickly ushered into a house by a group of women. ...


AP: Video Shows Iraq Wedding Celebration
Xpossed.com - 54 minutes ago
The bride arrives in a white pickup truck and is quickly ushered into a house by a group of women. Outside, men recline on brightly ...


AP: Video Shows Iraq Wedding Celebration
Times Daily, AL - 44 minutes ago
By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI. A videotape obtained Sunday by Associated Press Television News captures a wedding party that survivors ...


AP: Video Shows Iraq Wedding Celebration
WJLA, DC - 40 minutes ago
RAMADI, Iraq (AP) - The bride arrives in a white pickup truck and is quickly ushered into a house by a group of women. Outside, men ...

[truthisfreedom]

58. incredibly dramatic... in a matter of minutes, it has lept from 9 to 16

publications carrying it...

RAMADI, Iraq (AP) The bride arrives in a white pickup...
Boston Globe, MA - 56 minutes ago
By Scheherezade Faramarzi, Associated Press, 5/23/2004 17:20. RAMADI, Iraq (AP) The bride arrives in a white pickup truck and is ...


Report: Video shows Iraq wedding celebration
Kansas City Star (subscription), MO - 27 minutes ago
By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI. RAMADI, Iraq - The bride arrives in a white pickup truck and is quickly ushered into a house by a group of women. ...


AP: Video Shows Iraq Wedding Celebration
Guardian, UK - 37 minutes ago
By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI. RAMADI, Iraq (AP) - A videotape obtained Sunday by Associated Press Television News captures a wedding ...


AP: Video shows Iraq wedding celebration
MLive.com, MI - 46 minutes ago
By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI. RAMADI, Iraq (AP) — The bride arrives in a white pickup truck and is quickly ushered into a house by a group of women. ...


AP: Video Shows Iraq Wedding Celebration
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription), GA - 53 minutes ago
By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI. RAMADI, Iraq (AP)--The bride arrives in a white pickup truck and is quickly ushered into a house by a group of women. ...


AP: Video Shows Iraq Wedding Celebration
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription), GA - 35 minutes ago
By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI. RAMADI, Iraq (AP)--A videotape obtained Sunday by Associated Press Television News captures a wedding ...


AP: Video Shows Iraq Wedding Celebration
Bismarck Tribune, ND - 18 minutes ago
By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI. RAMADI, Iraq - A videotape obtained Sunday by Associated Press Television News captures a wedding party ...


Video shows wedding party before alleged attack
AZ Central.com, AZ - 32 minutes ago
RAMADI, Iraq - The bride arrives in a white pickup truck and is quickly ushered into a house by a group of women. Outside, men recline ...


AP: Video shows Iraqi wedding celebration
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald, WA - 18 minutes ago
By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI, Associated Press. RAMADI, Iraq (AP) - The bride arrives in a white pickup truck and is quickly ushered ...


AP: Video shows Iraqi wedding celebration
Modesto Bee, CA - 23 minutes ago
RAMADI, Iraq (AP) - The bride arrives in a white pickup truck and is quickly ushered into a house by a group of women. Outside, men ...


AP: Video shows Iraq wedding celebration
Times Picayune, LA - 32 minutes ago
By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI. RAMADI, Iraq (AP) — A videotape obtained Sunday by Associated Press Television News captures a wedding ...


AP: Video shows Iraqi wedding celebration
Anchorage Daily News, AK - 19 minutes ago
By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI, Associated Press. RAMADI, Iraq (May 23, 1:50 pm ADT) - The bride arrives in a white pickup truck and is ...


AP Exclusive: Video film of wedding party captures revelers ...
Times Picayune, LA - 32 minutes ago
By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI. RAMADI, Iraq (AP) -- The bride arrives in a white pickup truck and is quickly ushered into a house by a group of women. ...


AP: Video Shows Iraq Wedding Celebration
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL - 49 minutes ago
By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI. RAMADI, Iraq -- The bride arrives in a white pickup truck and is quickly ushered into a house by a group of women. ...


AP: Video shows Iraq wedding celebration
Albany Times Union, NY - 41 minutes ago
By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI, Associated Press. RAMADI, Iraq -- A videotape obtained Sunday by Associated Press Television News captures ...


AP: Video Shows Iraq Wedding Celebration
Xpossed.com - 1 hour ago
The bride arrives in a white pickup truck and is quickly ushered into a house by a group of women. Outside, men recline on brightly ...


AP: Video Shows Iraq Wedding Celebration
Xpossed.com - 51 minutes ago
A videotape obtained Sunday by Associated Press Television News captures a wedding party that survivors say was later attacked by US planes early Wednesday ...


AP: Video Shows Iraq Wedding Celebration
Tuscaloosa News (subscription), AL - 1 hour ago
By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI. The bride arrives in a white pickup truck and is quickly ushered into a house by a group of women. Outside ...


AP: Video Shows Iraq Wedding Celebration
Times Daily, AL - 52 minutes ago
By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI. A videotape obtained Sunday by Associated Press Television News captures a wedding party that survivors ...

[Just Me]

60. Thank God it's getting out. This horror cannot continue.

I'm feeling so disillusioned and betrayed right now that, I question how I would react if there ever was another "terrorist" attack on this country. For the first time, I imagine I would react that such an event was fully anticipated,...and, given the number of war crimes that this administration has committed,...completely incited by the freon neocons. That makes me sad,...but, mostly, leaves me feeling numb.

[truthisfreedom]

68. NOW look at it exploding:a few more minutes pass, and the list is enormous

Boston Globe, MA -  1 hour ago
San Francisco Chronicle, CA -  25 minutes ago
Kansas City Star (subscription), MO -  50 minutes ago
San Diego Union Tribune, CA -  20 minutes ago
Guardian, UK -  1 hour ago
Kansas City Star (subscription), MO -  52 minutes ago
MLive.com, MI -  1 hour ago
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription), GA -  1 hour ago
Corvallis Gazette Times, OR -  33 minutes ago
Leavenworth Times, KS -  38 minutes ago Bismarck Tribune, ND -  41 minutes ago
Wyoming News, WY -  34 minutes ago
Charlotte Observer (subscription), NC -  50 minutes ago
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN -  41 minutes ago
Kentucky.com, KY -  50 minutes ago
Elko Daily Free Press, NV -  46 minutes ago
The Missoulian, MT -  41 minutes ago
Helena Independent Record, MT -  39 minutes ago
Raleigh News, NC -  37 minutes ago
Munster Times, IN -  45 minutes ago
Orangeburg Times Democrat, SC -  42 minutes ago
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, IA -  47 minutes ago
AZ Central.com, AZ -  55 minutes ago
Tacoma News Tribune, WA -  40 minutes ago
Tallahassee.com, FL -  53 minutes ago
San Luis Obispo Tribune, CA -  50 minutes ago
Lodi News-Sentinel, CA -  36 minutes ago
Kansas.com, KS -  52 minutes ago
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald, WA -  41 minutes ago
Columbia Basin Herald, WA -  38 minutes ago
Bradenton Herald, FL -  53 minutes ago
Dunn County News, WI -  36 minutes ago
Albany Democrat Herald, OR -  43 minutes ago
Modesto Bee, CA -  49 minutes ago
Santa Maria Times, CA -  48 minutes ago
Natchez Democrat, MS -  40 minutes ago
Bonner County Daily Bee, ID -  37 minutes ago
Fort Worth Star Telegram (subscription), TX -  53 minutes ago
Times Picayune, LA -  58 minutes ago
Benton Courier, AR -  50 minutes ago
phillyburbs.com, PA -  1 hour ago
Sacramento Bee, CA -  42 minutes ago
Mattoon Journal, IL -  40 minutes ago
Anchorage Daily News, AK -  45 minutes ago
Idaho State Journal, ID -  43 minutes ago
Monterey County Herald, CA -  52 minutes ago
Penn Live, PA -  1 hour ago
Times Picayune, LA -  58 minutes ago
Daily American Online (subscription), PA -  43 minutes ago
Rapid City Journal, SD -  49 minutes ago
North County Times, CA -  50 minutes ago
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL -  1 hour ago
Grand Forks Herald, ND -  53 minutes ago
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader, PA -  52 minutes ago
Philadelphia Daily News (subscription), PA -  53 minutes ago
Centre Daily Times, PA -  53 minutes ago
Albany Times Union, NY -  1 hour ago
Xpossed.com -  1 hour ago
Tuscaloosa News (subscription), AL -  1 hour ago
The Ledger, FL -  1 hour ago
Times Daily, AL -  1 hour ago
WJLA, DC -  1 hour ago

[OKNancy]

62. Now it has page and pages

I quit after 6 pages -- that is over 50

This is what I put in google news - Video Film of Wedding Party

[Barrett808]

81. I like this headline: "Videos back alleged bombing of Iraqi wedding"

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1085351408642&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968705899037

All we need now is a headline that reads: "Video Proves Pentagon Lied."

That would be sweet.

[OKNancy]

40. 60 Minutes

They have been doing some great stories lately. This needs an in-depth treatment like 60 minutes does so well..... Let's write them.

Edit:

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml

at the very bottom of the page is a "contact us" link.

[FreakinDJ]

54. Done....message sent

[OKNancy]

56. Thanks

I put a lot of compliments in mine...like what a great job they have done and this would make a great story for their type of program.

[Pachamama]

119. Just sent them an email....good suggestion! n/t

[depakid]

42. Hard to believe someone so dense could rise to the rank

of Brigadeer General.

This guy had to know (or damn well should have known) that the evidence was out there and that it was uncontrovertable. Why on earth would continue to escallate the controvery with terse denials?

Had he simply offered some apology and mouthed some platitudes about "collateral damage" and the "fog of war," all this would be swept under the rug by the corporate media....

The only conclusion I can think of is that he's taking orders and stating what others are telling him to. What a stain on his honor (assuming he ever had any).

[progressivebydesign]

49. It's not about dense, it's about evil and dishonest. N/T

[FreakinDJ]

45. OK time to start another EMAIL Campaign these fuckers got to pay

It isn't often I am so struck by some thing tears start to form, but this STICKING COVER UP is doing it to me.

I am sick and tired of hearing American soldiers persecuting innocent civilians and covering it up

IT IS TIME THE BULL SHIT STOPS

[crossroads]

47. That video needs the same exposure the Berg one got!

How horrible! Put that video on the net for the world to see! Maybe it will stop the madness!
:puke:

[enough]

48. Heart-rending

I'm done withholding judgement about this story. TWO wedding musicians killed should be enough.

snip>

As expected, women are out of sight - but according to survivors, they danced to the music of Hussein al-Ali, a popular Baghdad wedding singer hired for the festivities. Al-Ali was buried in Baghdad on Thursday.

Prominently displayed on the videotape was a stocky man with close-cropped hair playing an electric organ. Another tape, filmed a day later in Ramadi and obtained by APTN, showed the musician lying dead in a burial shroud - his face clearly visible and wearing the same tan shirt as he wore when he performed.

snip>

The stories from the fleeing families are unbearable, including an American soldier kicking a wounded woman, and laughing.

This war is destroying our country.

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

53. War is HELL. This all stems from dehumanization of your perceived enemy.

War atrocities can be committed by anyone given to suggestion and institutionalized dehumanization of people. Nazi Germany = perfect example.

JB

[Junkdrawer]

50. Lies on page One .... Eventual correction on page 16....

great propaganda tool.

[Judi Lynn]

55. Thanks so much, AngryWhiteLiberal. We really needed this article. n/t

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

63. No problem. Ever vigilant for tidbits for our side. Regards. n/t

JB

[mike_c]

57. emailed this article, with my expression of outrage and disgust...

...to both my state Senators.

[Jim__]

61. Will the American people watch the video and understand that they're

being lied to?

NO evidence of a wedding? Or no evidence that we choose to look at?

[Tinoire]

64. Bad people have celebrations, too???!!! Has the US fucking lost it?!

<snip>

Soon American soldiers came. One of them kicked her to see if she was alive, she said.

"I pretended I was dead so he wouldn't kill me," said Shihab. She said the soldier was laughing.

<snip>
==========

WAR CRIMINALS
HAND THEM ALL!

[Tight_rope]

67. Can't hold back the tears anymore!...

Soon American soldiers came. One of them kicked her to see if she was alive, she said.

"I pretended I was dead so he wouldn't kill me," said Shihab. She said the soldier was laughing.


:cry: :cry: :cry:

[Tinoire]

69. Stay strong. You have to stay strong and throw this in the face

of every war supporter and war enabler out there...

:hug:

So sorry...

On edit: I'm glad you can cry though. My tears have all dried up leaving only anger. Is something wrong with me?

[minkyboodle]

73. my tears have given way to rage

its the shamelessness of these people that does it I think. I think it is a natural response.

[truthisfreedom]

70. i understand, and i want to cry too, but instead i'm monitoring the huge

number of publications that are picking up this story. in less than an hour, all of these!

Boston Globe, MA -  1 hour ago
San Francisco Chronicle, CA -  25 minutes ago
Kansas City Star (subscription), MO -  50 minutes ago
San Diego Union Tribune, CA -  20 minutes ago
Guardian, UK -  1 hour ago
Kansas City Star (subscription), MO -  52 minutes ago
MLive.com, MI -  1 hour ago
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription), GA -  1 hour ago
Corvallis Gazette Times, OR -  33 minutes ago
Leavenworth Times, KS -  38 minutes ago Bismarck Tribune, ND -  41 minutes ago
Wyoming News, WY -  34 minutes ago
Charlotte Observer (subscription), NC -  50 minutes ago
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN -  41 minutes ago
Kentucky.com, KY -  50 minutes ago
Elko Daily Free Press, NV -  46 minutes ago
The Missoulian, MT -  41 minutes ago
Helena Independent Record, MT -  39 minutes ago
Raleigh News, NC -  37 minutes ago
Munster Times, IN -  45 minutes ago
Orangeburg Times Democrat, SC -  42 minutes ago
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, IA -  47 minutes ago
AZ Central.com, AZ -  55 minutes ago
Tacoma News Tribune, WA -  40 minutes ago
Tallahassee.com, FL -  53 minutes ago
San Luis Obispo Tribune, CA -  50 minutes ago
Lodi News-Sentinel, CA -  36 minutes ago
Kansas.com, KS -  52 minutes ago
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald, WA -  41 minutes ago
Columbia Basin Herald, WA -  38 minutes ago
Bradenton Herald, FL -  53 minutes ago
Dunn County News, WI -  36 minutes ago
Albany Democrat Herald, OR -  43 minutes ago
Modesto Bee, CA -  49 minutes ago
Santa Maria Times, CA -  48 minutes ago
Natchez Democrat, MS -  40 minutes ago
Bonner County Daily Bee, ID -  37 minutes ago
Fort Worth Star Telegram (subscription), TX -  53 minutes ago
Times Picayune, LA -  58 minutes ago
Benton Courier, AR -  50 minutes ago
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Mattoon Journal, IL -  40 minutes ago
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North County Times, CA -  50 minutes ago
Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL -  1 hour ago
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Wilkes Barre Times-Leader, PA -  52 minutes ago
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Albany Times Union, NY -  1 hour ago
Xpossed.com -  1 hour ago
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The Ledger, FL -  1 hour ago
Times Daily, AL -  1 hour ago
WJLA, DC -  1 hour ago

[Judi Lynn]

75. Great news. Those sources are all over the place, too. n/t

[Tight_rope]

71. Victoms of the Truth vs Video of "Kimmit the Liar"...What do you believe?

Pictures of "Victoms of the Truth"

Iraqi girl Kholood, 2, lies in a bed in the hospital in Ramadi, 110 km west of Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Sunday May 23, 2004. Kholood was injured by shrapnel into her back when U.S. helicopters fired on a wedding party in the remote desert near the border with Syria, killing more than 40 people, Wednesday May 19, 2004. Kholood lost her parents and four of her brothers and sisters during the attack. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040523/481/ans10205231759

Iraqi children celebrate during a wedding ceremony shortly before U.S. helicopters fired on the party, in the remote desert area near Mogr el-Deeb, Iraq (news - web sites), 600 km west of Baghdad and 20 km from the Syrian border, in this image made Sunday, May 23, 2004 from a Wednesday May 19 video obtained by the Associated Press. The attack killed more than 40 people, including Yasser Shawkat Abdullah, the cameraman who filmed the video. The U.S. military says it is investigating the attack and that evidence so far indicates the target was a safehouse for foreign fighters. (AP Photo/APTN)
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/040523/481/bag80305232213&e=4&ncid=708


http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ_ATTACK?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME

CNN Story
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/05/25/wedding.hall.02/


Video of "Kimmit the Liar"
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/files/specials/videolineups/video_iframe.html?videoName=0522wedding_attack&videoHeadline=U.S.%20military:%20No%20proof%20of%20wedding%20at%20attacked%20Iraqi%20village

[Mace]

74. A link to the video anyone?

Does anyone have a link to the video?

I kinda hate when the news publishes articles without including the video..

[OKNancy]

77. They will have to edit it down

The video was over two hours long, so it will take some time to get it edited.....I'm guessing

[Tight_rope]

104. YES!

Go to #71...I have the links.

[Barrett808]

76. Photo of child at the wedding

Iraqi girl Kholood, 2, sits on a bed in the hospital in Ramadi, 110 km west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday May 23, 2004. Kholood was injured by shrapnel into her back when U.S. helicopters fired on a wedding party in the remote desert near the border with Syria, killing more than 40 people, Wednesday May 19. Kholood lost her parents and four of her brothers and sisters during the attack. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040523/481/ans10205231759)

[Judi Lynn]

79. This IS the place to check later tonight. This story simply must burst

into flame, you'd damned well think, wouldn't you?

How DARE Kimmet waddle around, like _Bush, like the others, pointing condescendingly at others and labelling them, "bad guys."

Evil, bad? Based upon what information? @$$####$! Don't wan't 'em there? Hell, kill 'em.

I can't believe grown people are using such childish, retarded ways of trying to smear and devaluate entire masses of people, to make it seem appropriate to murder them.

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

93. CNN FAUX MSGOP ABC CBS --- NADA.

This will run on the back pages of the news for the next two days, then disappear if we don't push it.

Letter writing pens at the ready!

JB

[ngGale]

111. Tomorrow on Faux, I'd better see something...

other than propaganda. Today they were still calling the 'Wedding' another liberal lie, and in my head I kept thinking, hope they had a camera. Camera's are really doing this bunch in, huh!!!! This administration is so old they underestimated technology.

[Barrett808]

80. Frame grabs from the video

TV Image shows guests at a wedding party in the remote desert area near Mogr el-Deeb, Iraq, 5 miles (8 km) away from the Syrian border, Tuesday, May 18, 2004. An attack on the wedding party that survivors say was by US planes on Wednesday, killed up to 45 people, most of them women and children. (AP Photo / APTN) (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040523/481/lon10705232323)

TV Image shows festivities at a wedding party in the remote desert area near Mogr el-Deeb, Iraq, 5 miles (8 km) away from the Syrian border, Tuesday, May 18, 2004. An attack on the wedding party that survivors say was by US planes on Wednesday, killed up to 45 people, most of them women and children. (AP Photo / APTN) (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040523/481/lon10305232323)

TV Image shows guests at a wedding party in the remote desert area near Mogr el-Deeb, Iraq, 5 miles (8 km) away from the Syrian border, Tuesday, May 18, 2004. An attack on the wedding party that survivors say was by US planes on Wednesday, killed up to 45 people, most of them women and children. (AP Photo / APTN) (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040523/481/lon10605232323)

TV Image shows the bride arriving for her wedding party in the remote desert area near Mogr el-Deeb, Iraq, 5 miles (8 km) away from the Syrian border, Tuesday, May 18, 2004. An attack on the wedding party that survivors say was by US planes on Wednesday, killed up to 45 people, most of them women and children. (AP Photo / APTN) (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040523/481/lon10105232323)

Members of the Rikad family show the identity card, left, of wedding guest Hamid Nunif Ghazai next to the death certificates of 27 members of the Rikad family who were killed Wednesday May 19 in Ramadi, 110 km west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday May 23, 2004. U.S. helicopters fired on a wedding party Wednesday in the remote desert near the border with Syria, killing more than 40 people, including Ghazai. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040523/481/ans11005231813)

TV Image shows bodies being placed in a vehicle in the remote desert area near Mogr el-Deeb, Iraq, 5 miles (8 km) away from the Syrian border, Wednesday, May 19, 2004. An attack on a wedding party that survivors say was by US planes early Wednesday, killed up to 45 people, most of them women and children. (AP Photo / APTN) (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040523/481/lon10805232340)

Iraqi girl Moza Rikad, 14, lies injured in a bed in the hospital in Ramadi, 110 km west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday May 23, 2004. Moza was injured by shrapnel to her leg during her stepbrother's wedding party Wednesday May 19 when U.S. helicopters fired on the party in the remote desert near the border with Syria, killing more than 40 people. Moza has her fingers painted with henna, a wedding tradition. In the attack she lost her mother and two of her brothers and sisters. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040523/481/ans10605231803)

more at:
http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=wedding&c=news_photos&ei=UTF-8

[Amazin]

82. Yep,they look like terrorists to me. Especially that kid.

[Amazin]

83. He's wearing black.Must be the bad guy if you think like a Bush

Talk about crashing the party.

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

91. Maybe the Repukes thought it was a gay wedding??

This could explain a lot.

JB

[truthisfreedom]

99. look, it wasn't a legitimate wedding anyway... no white people and it was

obviously not a christian wedding. you can't have a legitimate wedding without a crucifix being involved. wedding schmedding. they staged the whole thing as a wedding and packed it with little kids JUST TO EMBARRASS US. and they shot at us too! we were in the air, and they shot in the air, so THEY WERE SHOOTING AT US. it's simple.

/sarcasm

[loudsue]

84. Damn it george bush! Look into the faces of your "shock & awe"!!!!

May you and your administration burn in hell for all eternity.

:kick:

[minkyboodle]

87. I'd like to get him in a chair

Make him watch the results of his actions, clockwork orange style. I doubt it would affect the asshole though.

[saigon68]

101. HERE'S MORE

KRAZY KIMMITT WAR CRIMINAL ACCESSORY TO MASS MURDER



His quote " if you don’t like watching women and children die, change the channel."


THE WEDDING MASSACRE KRAZY DENIES HAPPENED



TV Image shows an unidentified man playing a keyboard at a wedding party in the remote desert
area near Mogr el-Deeb, Iraq news - web sites), 5 miles (8 km) away from the Syrian border,
Tuesday, May 18, 2004. An attack on a wedding party that survivors say was by US planes early
Wednesday, killed up to 45 people, most of them women and children. The keyboard player was
reportedly killed in the attack. (AP Photo / APTN)




TV Image shows the body of an unidentified man in a vehicle in the remote desert area near Mogr
el-Deeb, Iraq news - web sites, 5 miles (8 km) away from the Syrian border, Wednesday, May 19,
2004. An attack on a wedding party that survivors say was by US planes early Wednesday, killed
up to 45 people, most of them women and children. The man was seen to be playing the keyboard
in Tuesday's wedding festivities footage and was reportedly killed in the attack . (AP Photo /
APTN




TV Image shows guests at a wedding party in the remote desert area near Mogr el-Deeb, Iraq
(news - web sites), 5 miles (8 km) away from the Syrian border, Tuesday, May 18, 2004. An
attack on the wedding party that survivors say was by US planes on Wednesday, killed up to 45
people, most of them women and children. (AP Photo / APTN)







TV Image shows bodies being placed in a vehicle in the remote desert area near Mogr el-Deeb,
Iraq (news - web sites), 5 miles (8 km) away from the Syrian border, Wednesday, May 19, 2004.
An attack on a wedding party that survivors say was by US planes early Wednesday, killed up to
45 people, most of them women and children. (AP Photo / APTN)

THE AFTERMATH OF LIES




Iraqi artist Salah Edine Sallat puts the final touches to a wall painting based on the US Statue of
Liberty and a widely published photograph of an abused detainee at the Abu Ghraib prison in
Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City.(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)

[Rex]

94. And yet Kimmit will still be in charge tomorrow and the next day.

Rumsfailed will still be the Sec of Defense, George Bush will still be our unelected leader. Why? Because the people who can make a difference (mainstream media, Democrats, etc) won't make a peep. Hell, they should have ALL lost their jobs after the torture/murders in that Iraqi prison. But no, not in American. We rape the rest of the world and tell everyone to sit back and enjoy it because it's gonna happen and there ain't nothing they can do about it.

[saigon68]

132. He is a War Criminal

He's abetting genocide

[Rex]

135. Colon Powell is a war criminal, so is Henry Kissinger.

Nixon was a war criminal, so is Poppy Bush. I don't see any of them being brought up on charges and sent off to jail. This country doesn't have the stones to take powerful people and give them what they truly deserve - their day in the Hague.

[number6]

97. ditto

FUCKIN' WAR CRIMINALS. PERIOD.

[Alpharetta]

98. Still not on CNN's website

their performance on breaking stories has been very disappointing lately. Is this an AP exclusive they're not allowed to carry?

P.S. Either you are against this occupation or you are a war criminal, an accomplice to the planned deaths of thousand of innocent civilians.

[Alpharetta]

100. Stupid liars

Stupid liars

Bush, Enron, corporate cheats, military liars, Powell, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft

it is all on tape, you assholes. you lied again and again.

go ahead. tell me your "http://abcnews.go.com/sections/nightline/US/globalshow_030425.html">it was a matter of emphasis" copout again

[Disturbed]

102. Sleep

"Lying bastard. How the fuck does he sleep at night... :puke:

Sociopaths sleep well.

Bushco is repleat with Sociopaths and Sadists.

It is a requirement for their jobs.

[jackstraw45]

103. Is there any NON-AP coverage of this yet?

Corporate media WHORES won't cover this.

My new favorite thing the Corporate Media does is when tape comes out that isn't favorable to the American occupation, they don't show it but just report that it's being "played widely on Arab television."

Yet they don't show it here.

[minkyboodle]

106. kick

[Chicago Democrat]

107. The truith always comes out...

War criminals every one of them.

[Jack Rabbit]

108. BBC link to the video

From the BBC Online
Dated Monday May 24 02:01 GMT (Sunday 7:01 pm PDT)

"Wedding video" clouds US denials

A videotape has been broadcast which purports to show before-and-after footage of a wedding which Iraqis say the US attacked, killing about 40.
The film, broadcast by Associated Press Television News, knits together a home movie of a wedding and APTN video of the aftermath of Wednesday's attack.
Some victims and survivors of the air strike appear to be present in the footage of the wedding celebrations.
The US has insisted its target was not a wedding but foreign fighters.

Click on the link under "watch and listen" (upper right of the page) to see the video.

The report by BBC corespondent Michael Bushanan is also worth viewing (the link right under the wedding video link).

[truthisfreedom]

110. Excellent Link. Thanks! that's a good start!

[gatlingforme]

122. Thanks for the link, you can't trust anyone in the Bush Admin. or

the top brass.

[thebaghwan]

109. Once we win in November, the War Crimes Cases can start right after the

first of the year.

[sampsonblk]

112. I hope this comes out on TV this morning

so the Freepers can shut the f*ck up.

If this truly was a wedding, and I have no reason to believe otherwise, then this is yet another despicable war crime that the bush people have tried to cover up.

Be gone with them!

[nonbelief]

113. The video is on the news here now!

Here in Melbourne, Australia, the video is going to be shown on the 5 pm news on commercial tv in a couple of minutes...It's the hook story.

[Piperay]

114. Video on local UPN news

here in Los Angeles, it was obiviously a wedding. :mad:

[Pachamama]

120. It's so sick...see this story description and account of the incident by..

...the sister-in-law of the groom...she lost two of her children...and then check out Gen Kimmit's comments:

"The bombing started at 3am," she said yesterday from her bed in the emergency ward at Ramadi general hospital, 60 miles west of Baghdad. "We went out of the house and the American soldiers started to shoot us. They were shooting low on the ground and targeting us one by one," she said. She ran with her youngest child in her arms and her two young boys, Ali and Hamza, close behind. As she crossed the fields a shell exploded close to her, fracturing her legs and knocking her to the ground.

She lay there and a second round hit her on the right arm. By then her two boys lay dead. "I left them because they were dead," she said. One, she saw, had been decapitated by a shell.

"I fell into the mud and an American soldier came and kicked me. I pretended to be dead so he wouldn't kill me. My youngest child was alive next to me."

As Mrs Shihab spoke she gestured with hands still daubed red-brown with the henna the women had used to decorate themselves for the wedding. Alongside her in the ward yesterday were three badly injured girls from the Rakat family: Khalood Mohammed, aged just a year and struggling for breath, Moaza Rakat, 12, and Iqbal Rakat, 15, whose right foot doctors had already amputated.

We took ground fire and we returned fire," said Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations for the US military in Iraq. "We estimate that around 40 were killed. But we operated within our rules of engagement."

Major General James Mattis, commander of the 1st Marine Division, was scathing of those who suggested a wedding party had been hit. "How many people go to the middle of the desert ... to hold a wedding 80 miles (130km) from the nearest civilisation? These were more than two dozen military-age males. Let's not be naive."

When reporters asked him about footage on Arabic television of a child's body being lowered into a grave, he replied: "I have not seen the pictures but bad things happen in wars. I don't have to apologise for the conduct of my men."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1221658,00.html

:cry:

[Judi Lynn]

123. Here's a Reuters account.....

Iraq Wedding Film Challenges U.S. on Air Strike
Mon May 24, 2004 04:31 AM ET


By Tom Perry
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - New video showing Iraqis singing and dancing at a desert wedding begged more questions on Monday about a U.S. air strike last week that killed about 40 people.

The U.S. military has insisted most of the dead were foreign guerrilla fighters who had slipped over the nearby Syrian border. Local people say the Americans massacred wedding guests.

Associated Press Television News said it obtained the footage from a survivor of the strike early on May 19.

The U.S. military says troops found no signs of a wedding in the wreckage left at the remote hamlet of Mogr al-Deeb. But a spokesman, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, conceded on Saturday that six women were killed in the strike and a celebration may have been taking place: "Bad people have parties too," he said.

The film shows pick-up trucks racing across the desert -- many of the dead came from the regional capital Ramadi -- men dancing in a tent, children playing and a musician playing an electric organ. The same man later appeared dead in a shroud.
(snip/...)

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5233418

On edit:


What did HE know, and when did HE know it?


And HIM?

[democrank]

125. Yes, Kimmitt...Bad people do have celebrations.

The Republican gathering in New York this summer is one example.

[leftchick]

127. CNN just showed the video...

It was really heartbreaking to see the bride all of those happy people celebrating and know their fate. Of course Carol Costello the prima CNN media HO was going on and on with Kimmitt's denials like we should believe that lying asshole!! It was infuriating....
:grr: :mad: :grr:

[Dinger]

133. Carol Costello Is A JF}HUIDR%^VH (I Can't Even Say)...

Suffice it to Say, "She's lower than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs."

[spooked]

128. Kimmitt: "Bad People Have Parties Too"

OUTRAGEOUS!
from BBC
the video is also there
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3741223.stm

[0007]

129. Shibley Telhami of the Brookings Institution just said on c-span

that the U.S. bombed a wedding party and then lied about it.

[fizzana]

130. ABC's Good Morning America showed parts of the video in

their lead-in this morning.

[JCMach1]

136. 100% True news story... saw the actual video on Dubai TV

tonight...

Gen. K is lying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fizzana]

138. In an effort to minimize the fallout from the prison abuse story

the Bush administration has been trying to assure everyone that we believe in justice and that the guilty parties will be punished.

Then we go out and maintain the fiction that it was not a wedding party even when a video showing without doubt that it was a wedding party is being shown throughout the world.

U.S. credibility has now dropped below zero and is in minus territory.

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

139. 5.24.04 - 5pm est --- Wolfie to cover wedding video on CNN

Coming up very soon. Played teaser at beginning of show about "innocent or insurgent...wedding video?"

Anyone want to bet how CNN will spin this?

JB

[dArKeR]

140. Video casts doubt on attack story - TT

AP , RAMADI, IRAQ
Tuesday, May 25, 2004,Page 1

The bride arrives in a white pickup truck and is quickly ushered into a house by a group of women. Outside, men recline on brightly colored silk pillows, relaxing on the carpeted floor of a large goat-hair tent as boys dance to tribal songs.

The videotape obtained Sunday by Associated Press Television News (APTN) captures a wedding party that survivors say was later attacked by US planes early Wednesday, killing up to 45 people. The dead included the cameraman, Yasser Shawkat Abdullah, hired to record the festivities, which ended Tuesday night before the planes struck.

The US military says it is investigating the attack, which took place in the village of Mogr el-Deeb about 8km from the Syrian border, but that all evidence so far indicates the target was a safe house for foreign fighters.

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