RedCeltic
26th March 2003, 20:38
Iraqi Civilian Deaths Stirring Up Anti-American Sentiment Among Villagers
by Robert Collier
DIYALA, IRAQ -- Any chance that tribespeople in this rural area south of Baghdad would look kindly
on the impending arrival of American troops may have vanished in a cloud of collapsing rubble and
twisted steel.
At about 4:30 p.m. Monday afternoon,
two planes, which residents believed
to be American, flew over the area,
and local anti-aircraft batteries
opened up at them. According to half
a dozen witnesses at the scene, the
planes fired several missiles in
response, most of which hit empty
fields planted with wheat and barley.
But one landed squarely on Adjmi
Jubouri's two-story house.
Jubouri's 22-year-old daughter, Hana,
was killed, along with two other
relatives, and eight were injured, said
relatives and doctors at a Baghdad
hospital where the wounded were
taken. When the missile hit, the upper
floor pancaked down into the living
room, where the extended Jubouri
clan had huddled to wait out the air
attacks that have shaken the area.
FULL STORY (http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0326-01.htm)
by Robert Collier
DIYALA, IRAQ -- Any chance that tribespeople in this rural area south of Baghdad would look kindly
on the impending arrival of American troops may have vanished in a cloud of collapsing rubble and
twisted steel.
At about 4:30 p.m. Monday afternoon,
two planes, which residents believed
to be American, flew over the area,
and local anti-aircraft batteries
opened up at them. According to half
a dozen witnesses at the scene, the
planes fired several missiles in
response, most of which hit empty
fields planted with wheat and barley.
But one landed squarely on Adjmi
Jubouri's two-story house.
Jubouri's 22-year-old daughter, Hana,
was killed, along with two other
relatives, and eight were injured, said
relatives and doctors at a Baghdad
hospital where the wounded were
taken. When the missile hit, the upper
floor pancaked down into the living
room, where the extended Jubouri
clan had huddled to wait out the air
attacks that have shaken the area.
FULL STORY (http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0326-01.htm)