Thread by @jeff_kaye

Recall McClatchy 2011:
“A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that US troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence....”
mcclatchydc.com/news/special-r…

“Philip Alston, the U.N.’s special rapporteur... said in a communication to American officials dated 12 days after the...incident that autopsies performed in...Tikrit showed all the dead had been handcuffed and shot in the head. Among the dead were four women and five children.“

“Alston said that as of 2010... U.S. officials hadn’t responded to his request for information and that Iraq’s government also hadn’t been forthcoming. He said the lack of response from the United States ‘was the case with most of the letters to the U.S. in the 2006-2007 period”

“The cable also backs the original report from the Joint Coordination Center, which said...’The American forces gathered the family members in one room & executed 11 persons, incl. 5 children, 4 women & 2 men. Then they bombed the house, burned 3 vehicles & killed their animals’”

These are examples of the kinds of war crimes hidden that manning and Assange liberated from US censorship. The true face of the Iraq War!

Prosecute the war criminals! Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning

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