>> Nothing has come of this war but more death and chaos, as many tried to
>> warn the United States government and its citizens, yet all America will
>> do is stay the course. How strange.
> One thing the u.s. has proven it can do better than anyone is to lie, and
> then send a bunch of coward, vile, scumbags to another country and have
> them slaughter little children. Even 8 month old babies. They also ***
> their mothers, old ladies, and old men in wheelchairs who have one leg.
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> It was the home of 76-year-old Abdul Hamid Hassan Ali. Although he had
> used
> a wheelchair since diabetes forced a leg amputation years ago, Ali was
> always one of the first on his block to go out every morning, scattering
> scraps for his chickens and hosing the dust of the arid western town from
> his driveway, neighbors said.
> In the house with Ali and his 66-year-old wife, Khamisa Tuma Ali, were
> three
> of the middle-aged male members of their family, at least one
> daughter-in-law and four children -- 4-year-old Abdullah, 8-year-old Iman,
> 5-year-old Abdul Rahman and 2-month-old Asia.
> Families slain
> Marines entered shooting, witnesses recalled. Most of the shots -- in
> Ali's
> house and two others -- were fired at such close range that they went
> through the bodies of the family members and plowed into walls or the
> floor,
> physicians at Haditha's hospital said.
> A daughter-in-law, identified as Hibbah, escaped with Asia, survivors and
> neighbors said. Iman and Abdul Rahman were shot but survived.
> Four-year-old
> Abdullah, Ali and the rest died.
> Ali took nine rounds in the chest and abdomen, leaving his intestines
> spilling out of the exit wounds in his back, according to his death
> certificate.
> The Marines moved to the house next door, Fahmi said.
> Inside were 43-year-old Khafif, 41-year-old Aeda Yasin Ahmed, an
> 8-year-old
> son, five young daughters and a 1-year-old girl staying with the family,
> according to death certificates and neighbors.
> The Marines shot them at close range and hurled grenades into the kitchen
> and bathroom, survivors and neighbors said later. Khafif's pleas could be
> heard across the neighborhood. Four of the girls died screaming.
> Only 13-year-old Safa Younis lived -- saved, she said, by her mother's
> ***
> spilling onto her, making her look dead when she fell, limp, in a faint.
> Townspeople led a Washington Post reporter this week to the girl they
> identified as Safa. Wearing a ponytail and tracksuit, the girl said her
> mother died trying to gather the girls. The girl burst into tears after a
> few words. The older couple caring for her apologized and asked the
> reporter
> to leave.
> Moving to a third house in the row, Marines burst in on four brothers,
> Marwan, Qahtan, Chasib and Jamal Ahmed. Neighbors said the Marines killed
> them together.
> Marine officials said later that one of the brothers had the only gun
> found
> among the three families, although there has been no known allegation that
> the weapon was fired.
> Meanwhile, a separate group of Marines found at least one other house full
> of young men. The Marines led the men in that house outside, some still in
> their underwear, and away to detention.
> Inadvertent victims
> The final victims of the day happened upon the scene inadvertently,
> witnesses said. Four male college students -- Khalid Ayada al-Zawi, Wajdi
> Ayada al-Zawi, Mohammed Battal Mahmoud and Akram Hamid***eh -- had left
> the Technical Institute in Saqlawiyah for the weekend to stay with one of
> their families on the street, said Fahmi, a friend of the young men.
> A Haditha taxi driver, Ahmed Khidher, was bringing them home, Fahmi said.
> According to Fahmi, the young men and their driver turned onto the street
> and saw the wrecked Humvee and the Marines. Khidher threw the car into
> reverse, trying to back away at full speed, Fahmi said, and the Marines
> opened fire from about 30 yards away, killing all the men inside the taxi.
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> David G Fisher