Less than 24 hours after Prime Minister Hayder Abadi ordered the military to halt all airstrikes against civilian areas, the Iraqi military fired multiple missiles at a hospital in Fallujah, badly injuring a staff member and causing damage to the building.
Fallujah was the first major city ISIS took, all the way back in January, and the city’s hospital has repeatedly been targeted by the Iraqi military, causing civilian casualties.
Abadi’s ban on such targeting was meant to meet a demand of Sunni tribal leaders in the region who have offered to back Iraq in retaking the area from ISIS, and the latest attacks probably throw serious doubt into that.
It also adds to unwelcome attention for Iraq’s major human rights violations in the ISIS war. Human Rights Watch is calling for an investigation into a recent Iraqi airstrike against a school in al-Alam, north of Tikrit. The strike killed 31 civilians, including 24 children, and the school had been used to shelter civilian refugees as the fighting in the area escalated.
So how are the DU babies coming?
The Human Rights Watch is calling for the Iraqi government to investigate itself over a bombing in al-Alam. That's like calling for the Pentagon to investigate itself over poor budget practices and the accounting for billions of dollars spent (or lost or given away) in Iraq. Or asking Congress to investigate itself for campaign finances inconsistencies. Hold your breath…
ROOT CAUSE — SOLUTION
For hundreds of years the Sunni tribes had been ruling Iraq, as they are the highest achiever in competition for wealth and power. So, the power combine that rules our Empire, they ordered the Bush-Obama Administration to give the most incompetent and klutzy Shia politicians they could find all of the deadly force they needed to keep the Sunni tribes emasculated and enslaved. The goal being a totally gutted out government that never again nationalized the oil industry or try a second time to trade in something other then the U.S. dollar.
The US should be investigated for creating death squads that caused much more deaths and emptied many cities of its Sunni population,Baghdad is a prime example.
Doesn't Israel ever get tired of punishing Iraq?