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But the American military are not sorry for this crime, rather they are making excuses for it.
Chalk up another 55 for “collateral damage”.
Baghdad strike ‘kills 55’, Sarah Left, Mark Oliver, Ashley Davies, The Guardian, 28 March 2003
There were grim reports tonight that a missile strike on a busy marketplace in Baghdad had killed up to 55 people and left scores more wounded.
Osama Sakhari, a doctor at Baghdad’s al-Noor Hospital, told the Reuters news agency that he had counted 55 bodies, and more than 47 wounded people.
Arabic language television station al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya also reported on the bombing, in the Shula neighbourhood of the capital.
“An Iraqi official told us that the search is still going on for those trapped under the rubble,” said the correspondent for al-Jazeera.
Earlier, Reuters reported that an air strike on a Baghdad neighbourhood office of the ruling Ba’ath party had killed eight people, including several civilians.
Residents of the capital’s Mansour district told Reuters that the strike took place at around noon local time, destroying several houses as well as the party offices. Witnesses said that the bodies of several civilians, along with those of Ba’ath party militia members, were pulled from the rubble.
The Iraqi capital suffered one of its heaviest nights of bombing last night.
A US stealth bomber dropped two huge “bunker-busting” bombs on a communications tower. The US military said that Iraqi command centres were also targeted.
The bombing of Baghdad resumed shortly before 0900 GMT (12pm local time), when one explosion was heard in the city centre and several others in the outskirts, where many of the regime’s elite troops are believed to be stationed.
Although Iraqi officials admitted that the capital would probably be encircled within five to 10 days, they remained defiant. “The enemy must come inside Baghdad, and that will be its grave,” the Iraqi defence minister, General Sultan Hashim Ahmed, said.
This morning, Iraqi officials took journalists in Baghdad to see what they claimed was a downed US drone aircraft. Britain destroyed 14 tanks breaking out of Basra yesterday.
The last market place hit (a couple of days ago) reportedly was not by a U.S. missile but an Iraqi missile (accidental or perhaps not).
Are you referring to the residential marketplace ? i believe that was hit by a British or American missile.
‘Many dead’ in Baghdad attack’
I thought the US and UK were supposed to be avoiding civilian targets. Yet again another hit on a market 
And again its being blamed on an Iraqi misfired missile.
[source : BBC NEWS | Middle East | 'Many dead' in Baghdad blast ]
‘Many dead’ in Baghdad attack
The blast hit a residential area, reports say
At least 50 civilians are believed to have been killed during an air raid on a Baghdad market, Iraqi authorities say.
Graphic television pictures showed people scrabbling through rubble to reach the dead and injured amid the wreckage in the Shula residential area of the city.
Reports of the attack came as coalition forces renewed night-time bombing across the Iraqi capital.
On the ground, US-led forces were fighting for control of invasion routes in northern, central and southern Iraq.
Separately, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld accused Syria of allowing the trafficking of military equipment across its border to Iraq and said it would be held accountable for what the US viewed as a hostile act.
He also warned Iran - which organised anti-war rallies on Friday - against putting any personnel into Iraq, saying they would be considered combatants.
Correspondents in Baghdad say there is no clear information yet on what may have caused the destruction of the market.
Dr Osama Sakhari at Baghdad’s al-Noor Hospital told Reuters news agency he had counted 55 people killed and more than 47 wounded from Friday’s attack.
Arabic broadcasters in Qatar and Abu Dhabi each said more than 50 people were dead.
Abu Dhabi television said the devastation may have been caused by a US cruise missile.
But US officials at the Central Command headquarters in Qatar told the BBC they had no details yet and suggested it may have been a misfired Iraqi missile.
People in Baghdad stay at home and listen to the air raids. Life here is now full of boredom or fear of what is to come
Only two days ago, Iraqi officials said at least 14 civilians died when another shopping area in Baghdad was hit during a coalition air strike.
They added that seven more were killed and 92 injured in overnight raids on Friday.
The attacks included the first use of two satellite-guided “bunker-busting” bombs by the US military aimed at communications centres.
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Are you referring to the residential marketplace ? i believe that was hit by a British or American missile.
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Yes that would be the one.
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Yes that would be the one.
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Under,
with all sense you have. Do you think the German reporters are lying when they say the rocket was US made?
This article, i believe, sums it all up.
Lemme quote this for Under:
Thanks, Ali :k: :k:
Who reported them as American Bombs?
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Who reported them as American Bombs?
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Hmmm, who reported them not as such? CNN? Even the rest of the world is starting to make fun of the very biased reports from all the American channels.
Believe it or not its up to you. Rumsy is one big liar!
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you are soooooo right, it must be Saddam bombing his own people, darnnnnn Saddam
There are questions on where that missile came from. Jumping to the conclusion that it was an American missile doesn’t mean it was an American missile.
Iraq Body Count is giving a minimum 'statistic' of 253 Iraqi civilians who have died as a result of the actions by American/British forces. No doubt these 253 souls, as well as their families, are feeling extremely 'liberated' right now.
Over 50 civilians massacred in Baghdad market bombing
Another even more shocking atrocity against the Iraqi people, by the Anglo-Saxon war criminals…
Anger as Dozens Killed in Baghdad Market
Distraught Iraqis crowded into a hospital in a northern suburb of Baghdad on Friday, comforting or searching for scores of loved ones they say were killed or injured in an air raid on a busy market. Dr Osama Sakhari, speaking at Baghdad’s Al Noor Hospital after a day of heavy raids across the capital, said he had counted 55 people killed and more than 47 wounded from the market in the city’s Shula neighborhood. his Reuters correspondent personally counted five bodies in one of the hospital’s morgue units, after an incident which could further undermine U.S. efforts to win Iraqi hearts and minds. raqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf said at least 58 people had been killed. The number of the casualties…is 58 martyrs and I believe there will be more and the number of people injured is very big," he told the al-Hayat-LBC Arabic television channel, denouncing the U.S.-led invasion force. “My explanation for their increasing crimes against civilians is that they are feeling the weight of the series of defeats which we inflicted on them on the outskirts of the cities and in the desert.” Arabic language television stations al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya said rescuers were looking for more victims, and showed pictures of people carrying coffins out of the hospital. Al-Jazeera’s correspondent said: “An Iraqi official told us that the search is still going on for those trapped under the rubble.” The television showed pictures of bodies, including those of two children.
ARAB ANGER
Television pictures of bodies and damage in Iraq have fueled Arab anger against the U.S.-led invasion which Washington says is not aimed at ordinary Iraqis. It says that the nine-day-old war is aimed at removing President Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi leadership and ridding the country of weapons of mass destruction. Baghdad denies it has any such weapons. Abu Dhabi television said U.S. cruise missiles may have hit the market and showed a gaping hole on one street and damaged cars. The U.S. military blamed an earlier explosion in a Baghdad residential area on an errant Iraqi missile. Jazeera showed pictures of bodies at the scene and in the hospital. It also showed an Iraqi woman hitting herself in the face repeatedly as she stared through a window at a wounded young man lying in a hospital bed. A group of men shouted “There is no God but God,” as they stood beside an ambulance.
Death toll climbs to 58.
From an assistant researcher with the Iraq Body Count, John Sloboda:
…] Deaths of military personnel are also a tragedy.
But deaths of innocents have a terrible finality, which makes them the ultimate cost: a cost we do not pay. Our project is one contribution to a wider “human security” agenda, which recognises that national interests are never overriding. They must always be set against the interests of individuals.
Recording and honouring the dead is a fundamental human duty, one which is often neglected, especially when the dead are seen as part of the “enemy”. The neglect is all the greater when those killed are poor and disadvantaged.
…] We were inspired by the similar work of Professor Marc W Herold during the Afghanistan conflict. Herold’s compilation strongly suggests that more civilians were killed in the 2001-02 Afghan conflict than were killed on September 11.
Our project compiles an ever-growing database in the form of a table which records, date, time, place, target, weapon, and number killed. For each incident, we record both a minimum and a maximum number of dead, based on the range of estimates in published reports. Where personal details become available, we try to include them.
Do the souls of the Iraqi body count that Saddam is responsible for (pre-war as well as wartime) amount to anything? Or do we only shed tears for who have died as a result of the military campaign (which come to think about it, is also the responsiblity of Saddam).
Dear God most of those killed in this latest Anglo-American war crime were children.
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