مصرع 8 مدنيين بنيران مروحية اميركية قرب بيجي
قال مدير شرطة قضاء بيجي العقيد مظهر القيسي اليوم الخميس ان ثمانية مدنيين بينهم طفلان لقوا مصرعهم بنيران مروحية اميركية قرب القضاء . واضاف القيسي ان “مروحية أميركية كانت تقوم بتأمين رتلا امريكيا اطلقت النار الليلة الماضية على سيارة كانت متوقفة في الطريق الخدمي قرب قرية المزرعة ، ما أدى إلى مصرع ثمانية مدنيين يبنهم سبعة من عائلة واحدة بضمنهم طفلان ومزارع كان بالقرب من السيارة”. مشيرا الى ان “القوات الأميركية بررت الحادث بأن عجلات الرتل اشتبهت بالسيارة المتوقفة وأوعزت للمروحية بإطلاق النار عليها”.
Updated: An overnight U.S. air strike killed 8 civilians 7 of them including a woman and 2 children all of the same family and a passing shepherd not of the family in Mazra’a village near Beiji, Salahaddin.
(Update: One the children was 8 the other was 11 according to our correspondent in the area.)
According to the local police commander Colonel Mathhar Al-Qaysi. He said that U.S. troops conducted a search operation late on Wednesday in village, that villagers had tried to flee the village using the in the service road , and that the Americans had fired on them on the pretext that they were suspicious. [Editor’s note: There have been many indiscriminate fire incidents by the Americans in that area which is why the shepherds panicked and tried to flee.] An English report on Aswat Al-Iraq quotes the colonel as saying:
“Police forces rushed to the car and found the dead family unarmed,”
The photo shows some of the bodies of the civilians killed by the Americans outside the local Mosque.