STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: Downwithcapitalism <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 10:37 PM Subject: [downwithcapitalism] US, Britain bomb Iraqi civilians - update Reuters; BBC. 20 June 2001. Iraq Says Air Raid Killed 23, U.S. And UK Deny It. Combined reports. BAGHDAD -- Iraq said on Wednesday 23 people had died when Western warplanes fired at a playing field in a northern Iraqi town. Britain and the United States flatly denied mounting any attack. The Iraqi News Agency INA said U.S. and British warplanes raided Talafar district near the city of Mosul in what would be the bloodiest reported Western attack for two and a half years. "The raids, which targeted a football field, martyred 23 citizens and wounded 11 others who were playing football," it said. Iraqi television said the dead were aged between four and 30 and that four brothers were among those killed in the ''heinous crime" on Tuesday. It showed short film of the site where it said the planes struck, a sandy piece of ground surrounded by houses. On the ground lay a broken crutch, a bloodied cloth and fragments of a missile, one of which bore the words "Guided Bomb" in English. "I was watching the football match when the missile hit the place," Taha Nyef Hussein told the television. He said two of his brothers had died. Iraqi TV showed badly injured boys lying in hospital beds, and their fathers saying their sons had been hurt in the raid. It also showed hundreds of people carrying Iraqi flags in a funeral procession, chanting "America is the enemy of God" as coffins were carried atop red and white taxis. The Pentagon said US warplanes did patrol the northern no fly zone over Iraq on Wednesday. But it said no bombs or missiles were dropped. "The American and British governments are known for their lies and distortion of facts," Iraqi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Naji Sabri told Reuters. "The new crime is evidence of their political bankruptcy." Tuesday's is the highest single-day death toll reported by Iraq since the challenges from Iraqi air defenses prompted the United States and Britain to bomb targets across Iraq for four days at the end of 1998, in the "Desert Fox" campaign. If confirmed, it would bring the reported toll from frequent bombings since then to over 300 dead and 1,000 wounded. Iraq's deputy foreign minister Nizar Hamdoon, on a visit to Norway, said he had not seen the INA report but condemned all U.S. and British air raids. "Those bombings continue on an almost daily basis in violation of international law and in violation of Iraqi sovereignty," Hamdoon, a former ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters. The Iraqi agency said thousands of people had mourned the victims at Talafar on Wednesday. "They hit out at the United States and Britain blaming them for the incident," it said. PHOTO ATTACHMENTS. 2 Iraqi injured and funeral procession. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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