Via antiwar.com:
According to an earlier account, Nabiha Nisaif Jassim, a 35-year-old mother of two, was killed in firing along with her 57-year-old cousin Saliha Mohammed Hassan on May 30 when they were being transported to Samarra General Hospital for Nabiha to give birth.
What was not reported, according to an Iraqi human rights investigator who spoke with IPS on condition of anonymity, was that both women were shot in the back of the head by U.S. snipers.
"I investigated this incident myself, and both of these women were shot from behind," said the investigator. "Nabiha's brains were splattered on her brother who was driving the car, since she was in the back seat."
The U.S. military said soldiers fired on the car after it entered a "clearly marked prohibited area near an observation post" after failing to stop despite "repeated visual and auditory warnings." The U.S. military said in a statement that "shots were fired to disable the vehicle."
The brother of the pregnant woman, Redam Nisaif Jassim, who was driving the car, told IPS that he neither saw nor heard any warnings by the U.S. military. Two men who witnessed the incident from a nearby home also said they saw no signs of any warning.
There's more...
We all know by now that so-called 'official' press releases from the Pentagon are not to be trusted. They've shown time and time again that they either simply lie or deliberately obfuscate the truth. Only later, when they're challenged by someone with evidence to the contrary, do they actually do some serious investigating.
Don't Americans deserve to know the truth of what their soldiers are supposedly doing on their behalf? And why are Iraqis being treated like ignorant people who can simply be bought off with hush money when their relatives are murdered?
See also: Iraq's Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg
Will any person muster enough courage to finally blow this all wide open?
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