Getting Word Out

I think this is very, very important. The Iraqi Foreign Minister is getting word out about who is really targeting civilians in Iraq. I'll give you a hint here, it is not US forces.

ABU DHABI — The US troops in Iraq do not carry out target killing of civilians in the war-torn country, Hoshyar Zebari, Iraqi Foreign Minister, has asserted.

‘The US forces do not kill civilians. Yes, civilians got killed in Haditha and other places but it is the terrorists who target civilians in Iraq,” said Zebari, to a question posed by Khaleej Times on measures adopted by his government to protect civilians.

Zebari was taking part in the first pan-Arab Broadcast Forum held in Abu Dhabi recently.

“More than 40 to 50 Iraqis are killed daily at markets, places of worship and gatherings due to suicidal terrorist bombings. This is the solid truth which journalists cannot beat us on," he added. Cases of killings of civilians in Iraq, have raised worldwide concern over US conduct in the war-torn country. A case in point is a recent report filed by Iraqi police which accused US troops of rounding up and deliberately shooting 11 people in a house, including five children and four women, before blowing up the building.

Why is this important? Because Zebari is doing it in the Arab world. He is getting the word out directly to counteract the widespread misinformation that exists in the Arab world about the US. Will it be enough? That I do not know. But it is, I think, encouraging that some word is getting out to point out what has been obvious to a lot of people for a long time. The biggest killer of Muslims are other Muslims. The people who have saved more Muslims than any other nation is the US.

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  By Blackhawk, Sunday, 11 June , 2006 @ 10:51 pm

  Wonder if this is fallout from Zarqman biting it? Good for him (both Min Zebari and Zarq). Did you check out Iowahawk’s report from Zarqman on the Afterlife? Seems either their should be a clause in the holy books about false advertising or…

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