Posted on 04/27/2008 3:00:03 AM PDT by DJ Elliott
Baghdad, Apr 26, (VOI) – An Iraqi legislator accused the U.S. forces on Saturday of using "internationally-banned weapons" during the military operations in the eastern Baghdad district of Sadr City.
"Cogent evidence were shown by the criminal investigations and forensics' reports that the occupation forces have used fissile arms during the bombardment of Sadr City," Liqaa Al Yassin, a member of parliament from the Sadrist bloc, or Iraqis loyal to Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).
The Sadrists comprise a Shiite parliamentary bloc that keeps 30 out of a total 275 seats.
"When diffused, fissile bombs hit a large number of targets and spread on the body, which was evidently clear on the bodies of the dead and wounded in Sadr City," Yassin, a member of the Iraqi parliament's Health & Environment Committee, said.
For his part, Abdul-Latif Rayan, the media advisor for the Multi-National Force (MNF) in Iraq, told VOI that the accusations were groundless.
"We only targeted armed groups in Sadr City that fired missiles at the Green Zone in central Baghdad," Rayan said.
Sadr City, a stronghold of Sadr's Mahdi Army militias, has been witnessing armed clashes since Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced last month the commencement of a security operation codenamed Saulat al-Forsan (Knights' Assault) in the port city of Basra, Iraq's second largest province and an oil-hub, 590 km south of Baghdad, which he said targeted "outlaws". Hundreds of Sadr supporters were killed or wounded in intense fighting, which still continue so far.
fissile arms=cluster bombs in this case I think
nope. willie pete(white phosphors). I dont know where they are getting this bs, I havent seen it used.
Code Pink? Michael Moore? Scott "registered sex offender" Ritter? Gnome Chomsky? Harry Reid's office?
It isn’t “fissile” in any sense of the word.
Besides, WP isn’t banned by the Geneva Convention.
Almost sounds like an article in the Onion, bizarre as it is.
Uh so the member of the Iraqi government is complaining about how we are killing our enemy. Isn’t our ‘enemy’ also supposed to be his enemy? Perhaps he’s playing both sides and needs a WP up the wazzuu to clear things up.
Nope, it isn't. Moonbats however, will accept this at face value, and be spurred to new levels of foam-lipped apoplexy.
I assumed that “fissile” was a mistranslation of “split” and that they were talking about anyi-personnel cluster bombs. The article doesn’t mention WP.
He is a member of the Iraqi Parliment.
One of the 30 Sadrist members.
Not a member of the government...
OK, obviously he is lying through his teeth, but anyone who buys this has to be a complete moron. Like Sadr City would exist if we had nuked it. Dumba** needs to pick up a dictionary.
ONLY safe thing now boys is abject surrender, time to get in line, rat out other trouble makers
and then put in for a one way ticket TO GITMO
ON to gitmo! a safe place to while away the time awhile while your benefactors bail you out like they bailed out the french and the rest of the world in the late WW’S un et deux
il est simplement merveilleux!
pas besoin de nous remercier, par la bonne
So the Parliament isn’t part of the government? Really? I always thought it was. What is it then?
Sadr has been the source of many of the ongoing problems there. He has ties to Iran and facilitates the transfer of arms and fighters.
We didn’t kill him in an effort to use his influence to stop conflict. Like many others in the Iraqi government his goals are not those of the majority.
Could it be we didn’t use fissile arms, but struck enemy stockpiles of nuclear materials?
The current Government is those members of parliment and non-memebers of parliment that are ministers. Prime Minister, Defense Minister, etc. Equivalent to the Presidents administration in the US system.
The Parliment is the legislature. Equivalent to congress in the US.
The confusion comes from some of the members of parliment also being members of government...
Four of Sadr’s 30 parlimentaries had four ministries up until last May when they split from the government and were replaced by other parties. Sadr’s MPs are not part of the current Maliki Government...
Also, you do not have to be a member of parliment to be a member of the governemnt. The current Iraqi Minister of Defense had to take his uniform off and retire from the army to accept this apointment. He is not a member of any of the parties and has never stood for election. An independent...
Murtha been there?
They can't help it.
Generations of cousins intermarrying. They are simply stupid.
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