Civilian Slaughter Update
On Tuesday, May 30 Truthout <http://www.truthout.org/> published my article "Countles My Lai Massacres in Iraq"
<http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/newscommentary/000399.php#more>."
Here are a couple of recent pieces of information to augment that story.
Today the AP has just released this story:
2 Iraqi women killed by coalition troops
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060531/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_women_killed>
"BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two Iraqi women were shot to death north of Baghdad after coalition forces fired on a vehicle that failed to stop at anAnd on May 29, Al-Shaqiyah TV reported
observation post, the U.S. military said Wednesday. Iraqi police and
relatives said one of the women was about to give birth."
<http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/mideastwire/index.php?id=139> from Iraq:
"US forces killed five civilians and wounded two others in the city
[Ramadi] today. A source at Al-Ramadi State Hospital said that among the dead were a child and a woman. An Iraqi officer in Al-Ramadi said that the US forces were beefing up their presence on the periphery of
Al-Ramadi, noting that the city will soon come under siege 'ahead of an
all-out attack such as the one that targeted Al-Fallujah' in 2004."
