RACE RELATIONS BLOG: US troops hold children hostages in northern Iraq: police

Thursday, August 18, 2005

US troops hold children hostages in northern Iraq: police


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US troops hold children hostages in northern Iraq: police

US troops held five children as hostages to demand handover of insurgents near a northern Iraqi town on Tuesday, police said.

"The US forces surrounded the village of Mazraa near Baiji and detained five children under 10 years old, calling on the residents by loudspeakers to hand over several other children showed on TV channels celebrating the killing of US soldiers after roadside blast last week," a police source from Baiji told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The US troops threatened to sweep the village by Wednesday morning to detain the other children and suspected insurgents, he said

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

War is hell even for kids but the enemy and anyone would use what ever means they can to get the enemy out of there country kids are a great tool they can get past guards and play on the sympathy of the enemy (US Soldiers)in this case, same thing in viet nam the viet kong used kids,and if you look in every war in history kids are a great tool not that its right but war is not right so yes WAR is HELL and allways has been....

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