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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

in all fairness i wanted to post this story

it says the story released the other day regarding united states troops attacking a mosque was fabricated by some shi'ites. bodies were moved to make it look like the united states massacred innocent people. the united states says it did NOT happen (the massacre). i do hope one day (soon) we will get the REAL story. which story is the correct one? or is there NO correct story?

Iraq raid photos show weapons caches: senator
Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:08 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has photographs that show Iraqi and U.S. forces were fired on from buildings filled with weapons in an operation that has generated controversy after Shi'ite accounts of a mosque massacre, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner, said on Tuesday.
Accusations of a U.S.-led massacre of unarmed worshipers on the weekend have prompted the Shi'ite-led Iraqi government to demand that U.S. forces give up control of security.
U.S. commanders in Iraq have accused Shi'ite groups of moving the corpses of gunmen killed in battle to encourage such accusations.
The U.S. military has said that the raid on Sunday in Baghdad was by about 50 Iraqi special forces troops backed by about 25 American "advisers."
Warner, after a briefing on Iraq at the White House, said the strike was conducted largely by Iraqi forces supported by American forces, and they were fired upon from surrounding buildings..........


and here's a thorough article in the christian science monitor

posted March 28, 2006 at 12:40 p.m.
Iraq raid dispute threatens to draw US into sectarian conflict
Differing accounts of raid come a few days after Pentagon announces investigation into other US attacks.
By Tom Regan csmonitor.com
As relations between US authorities and Shiite leaders in Iraq have gotten increasingly rocky , Shiite officials have suspended negotiations over a new government, The New York Times reports.
The reason for the rift is an outburst of bitterness and mistrust after a hotly-disputed joint Iraqi-US raid on a compound that resulted in the deaths of at least 16 Iraqis, many of whom were followers of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
On one hand, The Washington Post reports that US Lt. Col. Sean Swindell, whose unit participated in the raid, said it was led by Iraqi soldiers and
targeted an insurgent group at a compound in northern Baghdad.
Reuters reported that US officials accused "powerful Shiite groups" of moving the bodies of dead gunmen killed in battle into a mosque
to make it look like a massacre of peaceful worshippers.
But on the other hand, the Post story quotes Shiite officials, and Baghdad residents who lived near the raid say that US and Iraqi troops targeted a Shiite mosque and gunned down innocent worshipers in the half-light of evening prayers. As the suspension of government talks indicates, the raid has created
a precarious situation for the US presence in Iraq. Agence France-Presse reports in a Truthout translation of the French newspaper Le Figaro that several key Shiite officials have said they will cease cooperating with US military officials. The governor of Baghdad, Hussein al-Tahan, said he would "cease all political and logistical cooperation with American forces," and said that the United States embassy and the Iraqi Defense Ministry should conduct an investigation, "but not the American military." The Iraqi interior minister called the event an "unjustified aggression against the faithful as they prayed in a mosque.......

curiouser and curiouser.......who does one believe? our government certainly doesn't have a good track record for telling the truth. however, i will still (try to) keep an open mind on this

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