Denial of Water to Iraqi Cities

[OneBlueSky]

found this on rense.com . . . another issue not being addressed by US media . . .

http://rense.com/general59/denialofwatertoiraq.htm

Water supplies to Tall Afar, Samarra and Fallujah have been cut off during US attacks in the past two months, affecting up to 750,000 civilians. This appears to form part of a deliberate US policy of denying water to the residents of cities under attack. If so, it has been adopted without a public debate, and without consulting Coalition partners. It is a serious breach of international humanitarian law, and is deepening Iraqi opposition to the United States, other Coalition members, and the Iraqi interim government.

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The information reported above is more widely known in Iraq than in the US and UK, and has had become a significant political issue. Belief that US tactics involve denial of water is widespread. According to the LA Times: 'As soon as the women of Fallouja learned that four Americans had been killed, their bodies mutilated, burned and strung up from a bridge, they knew a terrible battle was coming. They filled their bathtubs and buckets with water...' (20)

Condemnations of the tactic have been issued by several major Iraqi political groups. On 1 October the Iraqi Islamic Party issued a statement criticising the US attack on Fallujah which 'cut off water, electricity, and medical supplies', and arguing that such an approach 'will further aggravate and complicate the security situation'. It also called for compensation for the victims (21).

Three days later Muqtada al-Sadr criticized both the denial of water to Samarra, and the lack of international outrage at it: 'They say that this city is experiencing the worst humanitarian situations, without water and electricity, but no-one speaks about this. If the wronged party were America, wouldn't the whole world come to its rescue and wouldn't it denounce this?' (22)

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http://rense.com/general59/denialofwatertoiraq.htm

[knowbody0]

1. water is life

this harsh reality speaks volumes against amerika. the misery of these people cries out in our own night sky. we share the air we breathe.

[bullimiami]

2. this has to be a war crime.

if its not prohibited by the geneva conventions ill be a bald ape.

[AlienGirl]

4. It is against Geneva Convention

This is a war crime.

People need to be arrested and tried under international law for this shit...I am so sad for what my country has become. And I am so PISSED at the administration for turning our soldiers into war criminals.

:grr: :cry: :grr:

Tucker

[rndmprsn]

3. i didn't know about it...this is terrible

and has to be against international law...does even the sharon regime stoop this low?

[berni_mccoy]

5. I tell ya, it's this kind of crap that is going to ...

Get us attacked. These types of commands don't come from a handful of soldiers, they come from the highest authority. This is Bush giving the order to smoke these people out of their homes so they can be shot as they emerge or shrivel up and die.

Does anyone know why we were attacked at 9/11? It was because we gave Saddam a back-handed OK to attack Kuwait. And when the world demanded action, Bush Sr. had no choice, he forced Saddam out of Kuwait, killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and soiling Saudi Arabia with corrupt political games played by America.

The world will only take so much inhumanity from one nation before it reacts, violently.

[HeeBGBz]

6. If we can't stop them, someone else will

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