Source: Reuters
I hope they are telling the truth, but the Pentagon and the truth are like bedfellows who don't know each other very well.
For example, three fourths of people killed in the first Iraq War ended up being shot by friendly fire. Another telling example was the razing of entire villages in Vietnam.
Come on guys, we aren't buying this BS anymore.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -- U.S. commanders in Iraq on Monday accused powerful Shi'ite groups of moving the corpses of gunmen killed in battle to encourage accusations that U.S.-led troops massacred unarmed worshippers in a mosque.
"After the fact, someone went in and made the scene look different from what it was. There's been huge misinformation," Lieutenant General Peter Chiarelli, the second-ranking U.S. commander in Iraq, said.
He rejected the accusations of a massacre that prompted the Shi'ite-led government to demand U.S. forces cede control of security but declined to spell out which group he believed moved the bodies.
Government-run television has shown footage of bodies lying without weapons in what Shi'ite ministers say is a mosque compound run by radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The security minister accused Iraqi and U.S. troops of killing 37 unarmed men.
Giving the first U.S. military briefing on Sunday's events in Baghdad, Chiarelli said the raid by about 50 Iraqi special forces troops backed by some 25 U.S. "advisers" had been the fruit of long intelligence work. But he said he did not know the religious affiliation of 16 "insurgents" who were killed.
I've got a more truthful take on this:
War planners get a tip that a "terrorist" is in the shrine.
It's actually a fake tip made by a rival faction.
We're the U.S...we do fact checking, right? Nope.
They storm a holy place, and well, 37 innocent, unarmed, dead civilians later, the rest is history.
After all, a military that's run by this administration would never intentionally commit a war-crime, now would they?
My mistake, I know the obvious answer to that one.
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