US Army Seized Iraqi Homes

[Jcrowley]

US army 'seized Iraqi homes'
By
Ahmed Janabi

A leading Iraqi lawyer has accused the US army of throwing 211 families, including his, out of their homes.
 
Rabah al-Alwan, 36, head of the Union of Lawyers in al-Anbar governorate in western Iraq, said that the US army has occupied his family's house and those of with dozens of other families in al-Ramadi, the capital of al-Anbar governorate.

Al-Alwan has accused the US army of seizing the whole neighbourhood of al-Soufiya in the centre of al-Ramadi and using the houses for military purposes.
The press desk of the US army command in Iraq did not respond to repeated requests to comment on the claim made by al-Alwan.

Al-Alwan said: "Ten months ago, the US army seized my house and dozens of houses in the neighbourhood where I live. Residents were not allowed take any of their savings, jewellery, furniture or clothes."  

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/79418F86-902F-49F7-9662-1CC09B46E01D.htm

[let us vote]

1. kick

[newyawker99]

8. Hi let us vote!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[atreides1]

2. My Goodness

Just like those British Redcoats did to the Colonials a few centuries ago!!!!

[DavidDvorkin]

4. But the Redcoats were evil

They did what they did because of the decrees of a unhinged king named George, whose own people increasingly detested him but couldn't manage to get rid of him. He was a ruler who completely misunderstood the world and his own country.

It's a completely different situation.

[libodem]

3. Don't know about you

but I believe every word of it. Bush wants to bring Iraqis Democracy but he doesn't care if we have to take some homes or shoot up some families to do it.

[Disturbed]

6. The US Constitution obviously doesn't apply in Iraq.

Yeah, check it out. There is a prohibition in there about this, specifically.

[dubykc]

20. Or anywhere else for that matter.

[ixion]

5. yeah, gee it's just one catastrophic success after another in Iraq

:eyes: :cry:

[arewenotdemo]

18. damn! I totally forgot about that particular Bushism

One for the ages.

From the same interview:

Mr Bush said he believed the war on terrorism would be a long-lasting ideological struggle, but he declined to call it a fourth world war, saying: "I'm not the historian -- I'm the guy making history."

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0830-04.htm

[Double T]

7. bush democracy installed in Iraq supplants REAL DEMOCRACY by........

canceling Constitutions and the Rights of the citizens of that nation in favor of ABSOLUTE government and military power WITHOUT ANY oversight or accountability.

[Nicole]

9. Military zone

Military zone

Al-Alwan said the US army had installed snipers on the roofs of the houses to prevent anyone approaching the area they have taken over.


Al-Alwan: "Al-Anbar is nearly 100 per cent
under the control of the resistance"
He said: "They killed a lot of people, such as Ayad Mutar and Muhamad Ayad, for approaching their houses to try to get some of their families' clothes and belongings."

Hopefully Bush will pay for this.

[Jcrowley]

10. Locals Accuse U.S. of Massacre in Ramadi

Locals Accuse U.S. of Massacre in Ramadi

Dahr Jamail and Ali al-Fadhily
Inter Press Service

11/17/06 -- - RAMADI, Nov 17 (IPS) - U.S. military tank fire killed scores of civilians in Ramadi, capital of Al-Anbar province, late Monday night, according to witnesses and doctors. Anger and frustration were evident at the hospitals and during the funerals in the following days.

Iraqi doctors and witnesses at the scene of the attack said U.S. tanks killed 35 civilians when they shelled several homes in the Al-Dhubat area of the city.

Ramadi, located 110 km west of Baghdad, has been beset with sporadic but intense violence between occupation forces and insurgents for several months. On Tuesday, hundreds of people carried the 35 coffins of the dead to a graveyard in a funeral procession which closely resembled an angry demonstration.

"We heard the bombing and we thought it was the usual fighting between resistance fighters and the Americans, but we soon realised it was bombing by large cannons," 60-year-old Haji Jassim explained to IPS at the burial. "We weren't allowed by the Americans to reach the destroyed houses to try to rescue those who were buried, so certainly many of them bled to death."

http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/iraq/000494.php

[Ms. Clio]

14. I'm sorry, but this can't possibly be true

The U.S. isn't killing anybody in Iraq, all the violence is the result of foreign terrorists and those primitive ungrateful Iraqis who just hate each other more than they love their country.

/sarcasm

[Jcrowley]

16. The Iraqis are to blame just ask Charles Krauthammer

Why Iraq is crumbling

By Charles Krauthammer

"A republic, if you can keep it."
— Benjamin Franklin, upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, in answer to "What have we got?"

We have given the Iraqis a republic, and they do not appear able to keep it.

<snip>

I have my own theories. In retrospect, I think we made several serious mistakes — not shooting looters, not installing an Iraqi exile government right away, and not taking out Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army in its infancy in 2004 — that greatly compromised the occupation. Nonetheless, the root problem lies with Iraqis and their political culture.

Our objectives in Iraq were twofold and always simple: Depose Saddam Hussein and replace his murderous regime with a self-sustaining, democratic government.

The first was relatively easy. But Iraq's first truly democratic government turned out to be hopelessly feeble and fractured, little more than a collection of ministries handed over to various parties, militias and strongmen.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer111706.php3

[AIJ Alom]

11. Well freedom needs a place to kick up it's boots sometimes

and just relax. It's hard work marching especially with this administration's goals and desires.

[Jed Dilligan]

12. Which regiment of the Hessian Dragoons

was billetted in those houses, I wonder?

[hwmnbn]

13. Call it what you will.....

this is an OCCUPATION by a foreign military. End of story.

Whenn the Sunni/Shia/Kurds determine their final outcome, they will all join together to throw out the occupiers. Count on it.

[Selatius]

15. It is precisely this kind of activity by the British Army that led to the 3rd Amendment.

We have become the British Empire we rebelled against over 200 years ago.

[eridani]

17. Chapter and verse--

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment03/

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

[shadowknows69]

19. This isn't aljazerra BS

I've had soldiers tell me this.