A coalition press office spokeswoman could not confirm the incident except to say that two US soldiers were wounded in a mortar attack at the Abu Ghraib police station.
"We do not provide information on Iraqi casualties", the spokeswoman told Aljazeera.net.
However the American-based New Trend Magazine quoted a report by the Washington-based NPR about how the child had been killed by the US tank.
"First reports indicated that these were clashes between civilians and US troops somewhat like the Intifada in Palestine. During the demonstrations a US tank crushed a six-year-old Iraqi child," reported NTM. article
For starters, it's telling about our compassion and desires for the Iraqi people's freedom and futures that we don't even keep track of Iraqi deaths and injuries - it's not just that "we do not provide information" on them.
Secondly, what on earth is a 6-year-old child doing in the path of a tank? How does that happen? We are given reports of Israeli tanks bulldozing Palestinian settlements and reports of Coalition tanks bulldozing Iraqi farms and orchards.
What in the name of anything that could possibly be called human is going on?
Monday, November 03, 2003
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