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The patrol "was attacked by gunmen and the soldier abused the situation and killed the two soldiers. The soldier was an insurgent infiltrator," Khazraji said.
The Muslim Scholars Association, a hardline group of Sunni clerics, said in a statement that the Iraqi soldier had shot the U.S. soldiers after he witnessed them beat a pregnant woman.
"His blood rose and he asked the occupying (U.S.) soldiers to stop beating the woman. Their answer through the translator was: 'We will do what we want.' So he opened fire on them."
U.S. military spokesman Colonel James Hutton said: "There is no indication that that is true and the matter remains under investigation."
In June 2004 two U.S. soldiers were killed by Iraqi civil defence officers patrolling with them. The Iraqi Civil Defence Corps was created after the U.S. invasion in 2003 and was the forerunner of today's post-Saddam Iraqi army.
Originally posted by BlueRaja
reply to post by v01i0
452,031 dead? What method did you use to arrive at that number?
655,000 dead, 1.2 million dead, etc... are some other wild speculations that have been asserted. Of these 3 figures, how many of these dead can be verified by hard facts versus completely subjective wild speculation?
Originally posted by kangjia57
Reply to BlueRaja
how many of these dead can be verified by hard facts versus completely subjective wild speculation?
What do you think the total civilian deaths can be in a country where 4000 US soldiers have been killed?
Vietnamese government in 1995 revealed that 5.1 million people died during Hanoi's conflict with the United States who lost about 58,209.
Ratio- 1 US soldier dead : 87 civilians dead
Remember more than 1500 civilians died in Mogadishu where a dozen US troops got killed.
Ratio-1 US soldier dead : 83 civilians dead
Now lets say 4000 US soldiers dead TIMES by 80 civilians(rounded off) dead per soldier.
4000 * 80 =320,000 civilians dead.
Those ratios taken above are only when the US troops is involved in combat
After adding what the sectarian,civilian,terrorist war/massacre has caused.
My conclusion is about around 1 Million Civilians Dead.
Originally posted by zerbot565
enlighten me once again as to why i shouldent belive the story to be true when i once again read about a U.s soldier who´s raped an other human and now it even seams he cut her throut and burned her and tried to burie the remains....
Originally posted by zerbot565
enlighten me once again as to why i shouldent belive the story to be true when i once again read about a U.s soldier who´s raped an other human and now it even seams he cut her throut and burned her and tried to burie the remains....
Originally posted by kangjia57
Why not? Don’t you agree with me that US troops like to have FUN by killing civilians when they get bored? YES or NO?
Originally posted by jerico65
The military does a nice job culling out 99.9% of the bad apples.