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More Murders By The US Troops

05 June, 2006

US troops kill Iraqi women
American soldiers killed two Iraqi women - one of them about to give birth - when the troops shot at a car in a city north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials and relatives said Wednesday. Nabiha Nisaif Jassim, 35, was being raced to the maternity hospital in Samarra by her brother when the shooting occurred Tuesday. Jassim, the mother of two children, and her 57-year-old cousin, Saliha Mohammed Hassan, died by the U.S. forces, according to police Capt. Laith Mohammed and witnesses.

The shooting deaths occurred in the wake of an investigation into allegations that U.S. Marines killed unarmed civilians in the western city of Haditha.

A car bomb in the northern city of Mosul killed five policemen.

Meanwhile, 42 dumped bodies have been uncovered in different parts of Baghdad over the last 24 hours -- many of them shot, bound and showing signs of torture, police sources said on Wednesday.

Most of them were found in eastern Baghdad, the sources added, according to Reuters. Twelve were in one place in the Baladiyat district and eight in the nearby Sadr City area of the capital.

Car bombs targeting Shiite areas devastated a bustling outdoor market and an auto dealership Tuesday, part of an onslaught that killed 54 people. According to the AP, the bombs also injured 120 people, officials said. The death toll made Tuesday one of the bloodiest days in Iraq this month.

On his part, Iraq's new prime minister declared a state of emergency Wednesday in the southern city of Basra, vowing to crack down with an "iron fist" on rival gangs battling each other for power.

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Iraq: More details on Haditha killing as US troops cleared in another incident

ishaqi-2 Marine commanders in Iraq knew within two days of the killings in Haditha in November 2005 that gunfire, not a roadside bomb, had killed Iraqi civilians but they saw no reason to investigate further, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

A senior Marine general familiar with the investigation told the newspaper "It's impossible to believe they didn't know," referring to mid-level and senior officers. "You'd have to know this thing stunk," the general was quoted as saying.

In this relation, a lawyer representing families of some of the two dozen unarmed Iraqi civilians allegedly killed by U.S. Marines in Haditha said three or four Marines carried out the shootings while 20 more waited outside the homes. He also said victims' relatives turned down a request by U.S. investigators to exhume the victims' bodies for forensic tests.

Meanwhile, a military investigation into allegations that US soldiers intentionally killed civilians in Ishaqi, a village north of Baghdad, has cleared them of misconduct, the U.S. said Friday - even though it acknowledged the deaths of up to 13 Iraqis in the March raid.

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