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Iraq insurgents guilty of war crimes -rights group
Reuters ^
| October 3, 2005
| Suleiman al-Khalidi
Posted on 10/02/2005 5:40:10 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Iraqi insurgents are committing war crimes by attacking civilians in their fight against U.S. forces, the New-York based Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
Although the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and the ensuing occupation resulted in tens of thousands of civilian deaths, and abuses that enraged many Iraqis, this was no justification for deliberate killings of civilians, it said.
"The deliberate targeting of civilians during an armed conflict constitutes a war crime," Human Rights Watch said in a 140-page study, released in Jordan.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; cindysheehan; humanrightswatch; innocentcivilians; insurgents; iraq; islam; michaelmoore; terrorism; warcrimes; warcriminals
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These must be the freedom fighters Cindy Sheehan is always talking about.
To: West Coast Conservative
How do they know "tens of thousands of civilians" killed? Is there any way to really know?
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posted on
10/02/2005 5:41:20 PM PDT
by
misty4jc
To: West Coast Conservative
Where's the Master of the Obvious pic.......
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posted on
10/02/2005 5:46:58 PM PDT
by
Decepticon
(The average age of the world's great civilizations has been 200 years......(NRA)
To: West Coast Conservative
All together now.... DUHHHHH!
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posted on
10/02/2005 5:47:33 PM PDT
by
jdsteel
(Liberalism IS a mental disease!!!)
To: jdsteel
To: West Coast Conservative
Insurgents committing atrocities?
No Sh*t, Sherlock.
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posted on
10/02/2005 5:49:34 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. - Truman Capote)
To: West Coast Conservative
I am thinking an excommunication from the human rights cabal is in order here.
This Reuters post is blasphemy, nothing less.
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posted on
10/02/2005 5:51:29 PM PDT
by
mmercier
(a long acquaintance with sorrow)
To: West Coast Conservative
Does it take Human Rights Watch a while to catch on or what?
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posted on
10/02/2005 5:53:17 PM PDT
by
Earthdweller
(Earth to liberals, we were not in Iraq on 9/11 so how did the war cause terrorism again?)
To: West Coast Conservative
I'm sure this will make the terrorists see the error of their ways. /sarcasm
To: Decepticon
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posted on
10/02/2005 5:58:42 PM PDT
by
varyouga
(Reformed Kerry voter (I know, I'm a frickin' idiot))
To: West Coast Conservative
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posted on
10/02/2005 5:59:08 PM PDT
by
injin
To: misty4jc
They don't know - but - we do know our military went into Iraq and did a very good job getting read of the Red Gaurd and I would say many of their "soldiers".
We didn't stop to count bodies. Our bombings may have killed some civilians. Since we had embedded journalists we would have heard if we had targeted civilians.
By this time, some of the journalists would have written their BIG story if there had been one.
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posted on
10/02/2005 6:06:33 PM PDT
by
frannie
(Be not afraid of tomorrow - God is already there!)
To: West Coast Conservative
Surely you can't be serious.
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posted on
10/02/2005 6:08:18 PM PDT
by
sono
To: sono
"Surely you can't be serious."
heh heh heh. Very very good. hah hah hah. Seriously!
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posted on
10/02/2005 6:11:30 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned)
To: sono
Yes, and don't call me Shirley.
To: West Coast Conservative
These people make the U.N. look relevant.
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posted on
10/02/2005 6:14:36 PM PDT
by
dr_who_2
To: West Coast Conservative
Well, they say even a broken clock is right twice a day. These usually America-bashing pinheads have FINALLY gotten it right & pointed out that it's the insurgents, not the coalition forces, that are the bad guys in this fight.
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posted on
10/02/2005 6:18:48 PM PDT
by
TimeLord
(A whale fetus is a whale; a human fetus is a blob.)
To: West Coast Conservative
Hell must have frozen over!! A leftist self-appointed "human rights" group actually issues some criticisms of their beloved Islamo-fascists. Of course, they cannot dispense with including deranged attacks on the US forces and policies for 'balance' (not that they ever care about such balancing when they are issuing leftist jermiads against the USA). Still, it is remarkable to see a group like HRW actually bother to point out the inhumanities of the TERRORISTS (not insurgents).
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posted on
10/02/2005 6:38:49 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Would you trust YOUR life to Mayor Nagin or Governor Blankhead?)
To: misty4jc
"resulted in tens of thousands of civilian deaths" they are talking about the guys without uniforms but with guns that were shooting at the US troops.
Those were the tens of thousands of civilian deaths the are talking about.
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posted on
10/02/2005 7:00:17 PM PDT
by
dila813
To: West Coast Conservative
They just figured this out? I guess the magic number is over 100 decapitated heads.
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