On May 19, 2004, the US🐷🇺🇸 military committed a war crime by attacking a wedding ceremony in Mukaradeeb, Iraq, resulting in the deaths of 42 innocent civilians, including 11 women and 14 children

The Mukaradeeb wedding party massacre refers to the U.S. military‘s attack on a wedding party in Mukaradeeb, a small village in Anbar ProvinceIraq near the border with Syria, on 19 May 2004. The attack killed 42 civilians and wounded many others. The U.S. military denied that a wedding had been hit, claiming the location was a legitimate military target and that insurgents had been killed. U.S. military generals refused to apologize for the massacre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukaradeeb_wedding_party_massacre

William Rogers🐖🇺🇸 the man who shot down an Iranian 🇮🇷 passenger in the Persian Gulf 🛫 killing 290 civilians was awarded the Legion of Merit medal🎖️

US 🇺🇸 tries to lobby Iran 🇮🇷 to accept a symbolic Israeli 🇮🇱 strike to “save face” The Cradle has reported that the Iranian government rejected an offer from the United States to accept a “symbolic strike” carried out by the Israeli military.

14 years ago today Julian Assange 🇦🇺 published the Collateral Murder video showing the killing of civilians in Iraq including 2 Reuters journalists, seriously wounding 2 children. He faces a 175 year sentence if now extradited to the US 🇺🇸

On July 12, 2007, a series of air-to-ground attacks were conducted by a team of two U.S. AH-64 Apache helicopters in Al-Amin al-ThaniyahNew Baghdad, during the Iraqi insurgency which followed the invasion of Iraq. On April 5, 2010, the attacks received worldwide coverage and controversy following the release of 39 minutes of classified gunsight footage by WikiLeaks. The video, which WikiLeaks titled Collateral Murder, showed the crew firing on a group of people and killing several of them, including two Reuters journalists, and then laughing at some of the casualties, all of whom were civilians. An anonymous U.S. military official confirmed the authenticity of the footage, which provoked global discussion on the legality and morality of the attacks.

https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/en/resources.html

‘All lies’: how the US military covered up gunning down two journalists in Iraq

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/15/all-lies-how-the-us-military-covered-up-gunning-down-two-journalists-in-iraq

The Strange Death of David Kelly 🇬🇧

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