US Military lying about not taking civilian body counts?

[Terran1212]

Published on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 by the Independent/UK
Aid Worker Uncovered America's Secret Tally of Iraqi Civilian Deaths
by Andrew Buncombe in Washington

A week before she was killed by a suicide bomber, humanitarian worker Marla Ruzicka forced military commanders to admit they did keep records of Iraqi civilians killed by US forces.

Tommy Franks, the former head of US Central Command, famously said the US army "don't do body counts", despite a requirement to do so by the Geneva Conventions.

But in an essay Ms Ruzicka wrote a week before her death on Saturday and published yesterday, the 28-year-old revealed that a Brigadier General told her it was "standard operating procedure" for US troops to file a report when they shoot a non-combatant.

She obtained figures for the number of civilians killed in Baghdad between 28 February and 5 April, and discovered that 29 had been killed in firefights involving US forces and insurgents. This was four times the number of Iraqi police killed.


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[unhappycamper]

1. Nominated. This deserves some serious sunshine.

:kick:

[xynthee]

2. Oh, the crazy conspiracy theories that are swirling through my head!!

[MasonJar]

3. The more I hear about Marla's research and writings the more

suspicious I am of her death. The powers in DC probably did not know she had already written about the body count. It came out several days after her death. Who would profit the most from her immediate demise?

[Terran1212]

4. We don't even know who did the car bomb

It could very well be US gov't. How hard would it be for them to finance a small group of people to do this?