"US strike 'kills Iraqi civilians'"
"Eight civilians have been killed in an air strike by US military helicopters north of Baghdad, Iraqi police say.
Two children were among those who died in the attack on Wednesday evening near the town of Baiji, the police said.
Who died? Not KILLED, huh?
See the BIAS inherent in the term?
Died is a PASSIVE description; well, HOW did they die?
They were KILLED, MSM!!
Baiji's police chief said the attack targeted a group of shepherds in a farming area. The US military said the incident was under investigation.
In other violence, an Iraqi TV cameraman is reported to have been shot dead in crossfire in Baghdad.
'Tense relations'
A US military spokeswoman, Lt Col Maura Gillen, said one of its helicopters fired in the Baiji area after noting "suspicious activity", and she said people travelling in a car had ignored warnings to stop their vehicle.
Locals said some of those killed had been people running away on foot after the US forces entered the area.
Then it is MURDER!
A local man, Ghafil Rashed, told Reuters that his brother and son had been killed in the attack: "The Americans raided our houses... People started fleeing with their children, then the aircraft started bombing people in a street along the farm."
Baiji's police chief, Col Mudher Qaisi, told Reuters news agency that the attack was a criminal act, and would make relations between Iraqi citizens and the US forces tense.
"This will negatively affect security improvements," he said.
No "surge success?"
In a press statement, the US military said it regretted the loss of innocent civilian lives.
EMPTY words!!
If they truly regretted it, WE WOULDN'T BE THERE ANYMORE!!!
In a separate development the Iraqi satellite television channel, Afaq TV, said one of its cameramen, Wissam Ali Auda, had been shot dead in sniper fire in the Obeidi district of Baghdad."
More about the cameraman:
"Iraqi TV station says U.S. troops killed cameraman"
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi television station accused U.S. troops on Thursday of shooting dead one of its cameramen as he walked to his Baghdad home.
The body of a second journalist, Haidar Hashim al-Husseini, a reporter for al-Sharq newspaper, was found dumped in a field with nine other corpses in Diyala province, police and colleagues said.
A spokeswoman for the Afaq television channel said cameraman Wisam Ali Ouda was shot dead by U.S. soldiers in eastern Baghdad's Obaidi district at around 5pm on Wednesday.
"We confirm one of our employees was killed by an American sniper," said Bushra Abdul-Amir, head of public relations at the station. She added that witnesses had given testimony to the station's managers.
Also see: Asymmetrical Warfare Group
Hadi Jalu, deputy director of Iraq's Journalistic Freedoms Observatory, said he had also interviewed witnesses on the scene who had corroborated this, without saying how many. "They all said an American soldier killed him," he said.
A spokesman for the U.S. military in Baghdad, Lieutenant-Colonel Steven Stover, said no civilians had been killed during military operations in Obaidi on Wednesday, which starting in the morning and continued into the night.
"All extremists were ... either committing a violent act or posed a threat to commit a violent act," he said.
Colleagues of Ouda, 32, said he was buried in the holy city of Najaf on Thursday.
"Wisam was one of our most prominent cameramen. We loudly condemn the killing of journalists," the station's director, Mohammed Thiab al-Baidhani, told Reuters.
In a separate incident north of Baghdad, al-Sharq reporter Husseini was kidnapped outside his home in Diyala on Tuesday, said the newspaper's editor-in-chief, Abdul-Rasool Ziyara.
Ziyara said police found his body, along with nine others, in a field on Wednesday. His hands and feet were bound and he had a gunshot wound to the head. There were signs of torture.
WE did that, Americans! That's Bush's "LIBERATION!"
You better wake up to why the world hates us before it is too late, 'murkns!
"I'm sure he was killed because he was Shi'ite," Ziyara said.
Iraq, which witnessed significant growth in the media after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, is the most dangerous place in the world for journalists to work, according to a New York-based journalism watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists.
As if somehow this is a good thing, right?
Yeah, the media expanded so a bunch of them could get killed.
When are YOU GUYS gonna wake up?
Iraqi journalists have been targeted because of their work or caught up in the cross-fire of Iraq's many-sided conflict.
Like the U.S. pumping tank shells into the Palestine Hotel, right?
Notice how the MSM never tells you about that?
Early this month, gunmen shot dead Sarwa Abdul-Wahab, a female Iraqi reporter, in Iraq's northern city of Mosul.
Blackwater gunmen?
About 130 journalists, Iraqi and foreign, have been killed in Iraq since 2003.
And 1.2 million people!!!!
Most television stations and newspapers in Iraq are owned by political and religious sects or ethnic groups. Militants often target journalists whom they perceive to be on the side of their enemies in a particular conflict."
But the U.S. never does? I think we have killed the most, haven't we?
If not, we imprison them, don't we?
