Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Iraqi Ambassador:Marines killed my cousin

The new Iraqi ambassador to the US has accused US Marines of "intentionally" killing a cousin in the Iraqi town of Haditha last yr during an interview on CNN's Situation Room w/Wolf Blitzer, just hrs after the ambassador met Prez Bush (via ABCNews): "Amb. Samir al-Sumaidaie said his 21 yr old cousin was shot dead 5 mos before the killing of 24 civilians in Haditha. The ambassador told how Mohammed al-Sumaidaie, an engineering student, was killed after opening the door of the family house to US Marines on June 25: "I believe he was killed intentionally. I believe he was killed unnecessarily. The Marines were doing house-to-house searches, and they went into the house of my cousin. He opened the door for them. His mother, his siblings were there. He let them into the bedroom of his father, and there he was shot." The ambassador added that he was also suspicious about the deaths of 3 other youths in Haditha shortly after that of his cousin. "They were in a car, they were unarmed, I believe, and they were shot." Holy crap! So when exactly will the smear of this ambassador begin? Here's the CNN transcript: "BLITZER: But even months before the incident in Nov, you lost a cousin at Haditha in a separate battle involving Marines. SUMAIDAIE: Well, that was not a battle at all. Marines were doing house-to-house searches, and they went into the house of my cousin. He opened the door for them. B: Who shot him? S: A member of the Marines. B: Why did they shoot him? S: Well, they said that they shot him in self-defense. I find that hard to believe b/c he is not at all a violent -- I mean, I know the boy. He was in a 2nd-yr engineering course in the university. Nothing to do w/ violence. All his life has been studies and intellectual work. Totally unbelievable. And, in fact, they had no weapon in the house. They had one weapon which belonged to the school where his father was a headmaster. And it had no ammunition in it. And he led them into the room to show it to them." Sadly, here is the numb Iraqi rection to the Haditha killings: "People in Baghdad could spare little more than subdued expressions of sympathy after hearing reports of the killings." Sadder yet, I'm sure Gibson and his wingut ilk will say the new ambassador is just ungrateful for all of this "liberating" and ask why should we even care b/c sheesh, that engineering student would've just turned out to be a suicide bomber anyway, right? Dear God... I need to consider drinking heavily.
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