Al Sadr Spokesman: U.S. Using Internationally Banned Weapons In Sadr City Siege
Baghdad, Apr 26, (VOI) – A Sadrist 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.
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What a load of crap!
Besides, anyone can tell that we haven’t used “fissile” arms…………cuz the war is still being fought there.
End of story!
April 26th, 2008 at 10:54 am“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).”
LOL Boy that little munchkin puppet is really reaching now. This guy’s a laugh a minute. Time to obliterate this pussy and his thugocracy.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:06 amIED’s,kidnapping’s, beheadings… those are all legal, right mookie?
April 26th, 2008 at 12:10 pmThe Freaking Idiot is probably refering to depleted uranium rounds fired from A-10s and other aircraft as anti-armor rounds. However, depleted uranium is depleted because we took the fissile stuff out! DU rounds are almost completely the non-fissile isotope U-238. The naturally occuring isotope that is fissile is U-235. That was removed and put into reactors; what is left over is depleted uranium which is only good for weights because it is nearly twice as dense as lead. Please, somebody shoot this dumb sob.
April 26th, 2008 at 12:45 pmAny bullet is a good bullet…
April 26th, 2008 at 2:10 pm“Please, somebody shoot this dumb sob”………..
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preferrably, with a DU(”fissile”…. :roll:)round…
April 26th, 2008 at 2:17 pmawwwwwwwww bummer…
April 26th, 2008 at 2:34 pmTake the Iranians puppets out.
April 26th, 2008 at 2:54 pmNuke those fuckers.
April 26th, 2008 at 5:27 pmIt’s mindblowing how eerily similar the Sadrist parliamentary legislators spin on the war is to our dem legislators in DC. I’m not sure which group hates the US more.
Yet, we appear to be making more political progress in Iraq than in America.
April 26th, 2008 at 5:52 pmEM…You got that right!
April 26th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Hey Mookie,
April 26th, 2008 at 8:56 pmYou are going to be captioned soon as; Internationally Banned! What do you think about that you towel-headed bed-sheeting mo fo yahoo? Seen the dentist yet? Maybe Aminidick will give you a couple of dinars to go.
Find Mookie. Kill Mookie. A dead Mookie is a good Mookie.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:12 amEveryone wants a “clean” war
wait for Jimmy Carter and Nancy Pelosi to call for aninvestigation! I’m not kidding.
April 27th, 2008 at 5:29 amSo, Umm, Sadr’s an expert at the Geneva Convention is he?
April 27th, 2008 at 6:18 amcnchess
Oh yeh, harmless old uranium. See the experiment in Falluja….
“Beyond security, the health situation in the city is particularly difficult. A study conducted by two civil society organisations and the administration of Fallujah General Hospital over a two-year period was submitted to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees on Mar. 4.
The hospital administration and the two groups, the Conservation Centre of Environment and Reserves in Fallujah and the Monitoring Net of Human Rights in Iraq, say that in 2006 they found “5,928 new illness cases that were unknown before in Fallujah,” over 70 percent of which were “cancers and abnormalities” in children below 12 years of age.
“In the first six months of 2007 there were 2,447 cases, more than 50 percent of these cases were children. Simply, this means that most of the victims are children, and this will threaten the new generation in this city.”
May 3rd, 2008 at 4:22 pmhttp://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41971