Det långa kriget
7 september 2003 | Ingen har kommenterat än
”Farah Fadhil was only 18 when she was killed. An American soldier threw a grenade through the window of her apartment. Her death, early last Monday, was slow and agonising. Her legs had been shredded, her hands burnt and punctured by splinters of metal, suggesting that the bright high-school student had covered her face to shield it from the explosion.
She had been walking to the window to try to calm an escalating situation; to use her smattering of English to plead with the soldiers who were spraying her apartment building with bullets.
But then a grenade was thrown and Farah died. So did Marwan Hassan who, according to neighbours, was caught in the crossfire as he went looking for his brother when the shooting began.
What is perhaps most shocking about their deaths is that the coalition troops who killed them did not even bother to record details of the raid with the coalition military press office. (—) For while the media are encouraged to count each US death, the Iraqi civilians who have died at American hands since the fall of Saddam’s regime have been as uncounted as their names have been unacknowledged.”
(Guardian: Farah tried to plead with the US troops but she was killed anyway, 7 sep)
Det här, som verkade rätt långsökt i mars och som jag inte länkade till då, känns efterhand mer och mer aktuellt: Cleared to Taxi: Vietnam 2 Pre-Flight Check.
Även generaler jämför med Vietnam:
”In an impassioned speech to several hundred Marine and Navy officers and others, Zinni invoked the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War in the 1960s and ’70s.
’My contemporaries, our feelings and sensitivities were forged on the battlefields of Vietnam, where we heard the garbage and the lies, and we saw the sacrifice,’ said Zinni, who was severely wounded while serving as an infantry officer in that conflict. ’I ask you, is it happening again?'”
(Washington Post: Ex-Envoy Criticizes Bush’s Postwar Policy, 5 sep.)
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