Lies about crimes

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Two acts of carnage
www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1221511,00.html

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independent 21/05/04
Americans are sticking doggedly to this version of events despite growing
evidence that a wedding party was hit. More and more eyewitnesses are coming
forward. Hussein Ali, a well-known wedding singer, was buried in Baghdad
yesterday, alongside his brother Mohammed. Their family said they had been
performing at the wedding.

The evidence that the US military has put forward to support its version of
events has been seriously undermined. Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt said guns,
Syrian passports and a satellite phone had been recovered. But Sheikh Nasrallah
Miklif, the head of the Bani Fahd tribe to which most of the dead belonged,
said that was to be expected, given that the air strike happened in Makradheeb,
a village in the desert, about 10 miles from the Syrian border.

Every household in Iraq has a gun, usually a Kalashnikov assault rifle, to
protect itself. In the desert it is even more common for people to keep guns,
as protection not only from robbers, but also wild animals. Shepherds need to
protect their flocks.

The village is 80 miles from the nearest town, al-Qa'im, and 10 miles from the
nearest road. There are no telephone lines and no mobile coverage. Satellite
phones are comparatively cheap in Iraq and it would be surprising if the
villagers did not have one.