This picture is of a little boy who was killed in a U.S. raid. He was murdered by the actions of another human being. He was one of four other children murdered. This was not some rouge soldiers going off on the deep end. This was an organized effort of the U.S. military. Americans are murdering children. These are children, CHILDREN! my god, what the hell is it going to take for people to see and do something about this filthy, disgusting, butchering, murdering mess. Conversations continue about reality tv shows WHILE CHILDREN ARE BEING SLAUGHTERED!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK! How much clearer can it get! Look at that boy, he's a baby for christs sake. Look at this womans finger on his lifeless body. I had to crop this photo cause the only real ones I could find where spattered with the appauling advertising lusts of some photo corporations who could care less about the dignity of this boy. While I was doing that, I had to look at this child, at the blanket he was wrapped in, at the clothes he wore. If you've ever held a baby there is something so comforting about their clothes, their blanket, their smell and their beauty. Well this image does more then tear my heart out. This little boy was murdered. The comforts reminencent of those images of beauty come crashing down in the contrast of this little boy's murder. How do people go on living a life of lies, of false emotions when there are things like this occuring every day.

Here's the story:

Iraqis say US raid on home killed 11 family members

Wed Mar 15, 2006 2:40 PM
GMT


By Amer Amery

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Eleven members of an Iraqi family were killed in a U.S. raid on Wednesday, police and witnesses said. The U.S. military said two women and a child died during the bid to seize an al Qaeda militant from a house.

Television pictures showed 11 bodies in the Tikrit morgue -- five children, two men and four women. A freelance photographer later saw the bodies being buried in Ishaqi, the town 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad where the raid took place.

The U.S. military said in a statement its troops had attacked a house in Ishaqi early on Wednesday to capture a "foreign fighter facilitator for the al Qaeda in Iraq network".

"Troops were engaged by enemy fire as they approached the building," U.S. spokesman Major Tim Keefe said. "Coalition Forces returned fire utilising both air and ground assets.

"There was one enemy killed. Two women and one child were also killed in the
firefight. The building ... (was) destroyed."

Keefe said the al Qaeda suspect had been captured and was being questioned.

RUBBLE

Major Ali Ahmed of the Ishaqi police said U.S. forces had landed on the roof of the house in the early hours and shot the 11 occupants, including the five children.
"After they left the house they blew it up," he said.

Another policeman, Major Farouq Hussein, said all the bodies had gunshot wounds to the head. Pictures of the house targeted in the raid showed it had been reduced to
rubble, while next to it lay the burnt-out wreckage of a truck.

Iraqi police said the U.S. military had asked for a meeting with local tribal leaders.
Photographs of the funeral showed men weeping as five children were wrapped
in blankets and then lined up in a row next to freshly dug graves.

Police in Salahaddin province, a heartland of the Sunni Arab insurgency and the home region of Saddam Hussein, have frequently criticised U.S. military tactics in
the area.

In January a U.S. air strike on a house in Baiji, further north,
killed several members of a family. In December U.S. fighter jets dropped two
500-pound bombs on a village, also in the region, killing 10 people. The U.S.
military said the people targeted had been suspected of planting roadside bombs.

[the photo that spread their advertising over this dead boys body was by AFP/ Getty Images]