----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 6:15 PM Subject: [STOPNATO] + Re: US Requested Air Attacks On Civilians During Korean War STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM THANK YOU RICK. I saw the CBS Evening News report on TV last night and I was looking for this awful story online. -- Kev. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Support Antiwar.com http://Antiwar.com and also the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk. +Make nonviolent peace. Speak truth to power. Pray for one another. Be merciful. Love your enemies. Forgive those who've hurt you. Come Lord Jesus Christ. Deo Gratias.+ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb
STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM CBS: Army document requested aerial attacks on civilians during Korean War 9.34 a.m. ET (1346 GMT) June 6, 2000 NEW YORK (AP) � Military investigators have found a document showing that the Army asked that U.S. warplanes strafe columns of South Korean refugees approaching American lines during the chaotic early days of the Korean War, CBS reported. The document adds to a growing body of reports reflecting that in the opening weeks of the Korean conflict, when American forces were in retreat, the U.S. military adopted a policy of deliberately firing on civilians. The Army launched a probe after The Associated Press quoted U.S. veterans and South Korean survivors saying American GIs carried out a mass killing of civilians in July 1950, at the hamlet of No Gun Ri. Some ex-GIs said they received orders to open fire. Ex-GIs spoke of 100, 200 or simply hundreds dead. The Koreans say 300 were shot to death after 100 had been killed in an aerial strafing. In its report last fall, AP reported that declassified military documents showed general orders had been issued to shoot at civilians who crossed front lines. "Fire everyone trying to cross lines. Use discretion in case of women and children,'' said an order issued by the Army's 1st Cavalry Division headquarters. CBS said Monday that during the Korean War, the U.S. Army asked the Air Force to strafe civilians because it was afraid that North Korean soldiers were infiltrating groups of refugees. "The Army has requested that we strafe all civilian refugee parties ... approaching our positions,'' said the memo cited by CBS. "To date, we have complied.'' CBS said the memo was written by Air Force Col. Turner Rogers and was found at the National Archives in College Park, Md. According to the Rogers memo, the Army was concerned that "large groups of civilians, either composed of or controlled by North Korean soldiers, are infiltrating U.S. positions.'' However, the Air Force colonel warned that targeting civilians "may cause embarrassment to the Air Force.'' In a story in December, the AP cited after-mission reports from the Korean War that showed that U.S. Air Force pilots sometimes questioned their targets. In one, pilots said a Korean group strafed at an airborne controller's instruction "could have been refugees.'' In another declassified report they said their target "appeared to be evacuees.'' CBS said Army investigators looking into the No Gun Ri allegations have not found any record from the Army of the request to strafe civilians. � ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb
