Who
killed 32 children in Iraq? Iraqi experts accuse US forces
of being behind car bombing that killed 32 children three days ago. Iraqi
sources are saying that the car bombing last Wednesday that killed some 32 local
children was the work not of the Iraqi Resistance but of the US occupation troops. A
traffic lieutenant who asked not to be identified told Mafkarat al-Islam that
US solders came racing crazily out of the street less than a minute before the
explosion. Then after the blast they did not go back to where it happened but
continued to hurry out of the area. A captain in the fire department who
asked not to be identified told Mafkarat al-Islam that the explosion was extremely
powerful and left a big crater in the earth – something that other car bombs
do not do. The captain said that this was because the bombs used by the Iraqi
Resistance are made from Russian-made TNT that was in the possession of the Army
of the Republic of Iraq before the US occupation. He said that former soldiers
are very familiar with the effects of such explosives, and know that during an
explosion it blows upwards, not downwards, and for this reason US forces prohibit
the taking of photographs from the scenes of attacks where the effects of explosions
are obvious. When the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent asked the fire captain
what he meant by his remarks and whether he was accusing the Americans of setting
the blast, he replied, “The Traffic Stop Director for the area, Ahmad Kamal
was fired because of his statement one hour after the explosion in which he said
that the US forces were behind the blast. This was regarded as an ‘irresponsible
statement’ by him and attributed to the fact that he had lost control of
himself and had a breakdown after the bombing and to the fact that he is a Sunni
and does not want to believe that what is happening in Iraq is ‘terrorism’.” (For
coverage of the bombing on the day it occurred, see: “Car bomb targets US
checkpoint in ar-Rustamiyah,” in the Iraqi Resistance Report for Wednesday,
13 July 2005.)
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