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Sunday, 27 April 2008 |
A senior Iraqi health official has said that the US military has been
utilizing internationally prohibited weapons against the Iraqi people in
Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Sadr City.
Ale Yassin, the member of the Committee on Health and Environment in the Iraqi
parliament said that the occupying troops use internationally prohibited weapons
during raids on Sadr City.
She said that forensic medicine investigations proved that the occupying troops
used banned bombs in the recent raids on Sadr City which killed a number of
people and injured several others.
Yassin added that the investigations came to the conclusion after carrying
autopsy on the bodies of martyrs and injured people from the city.
Sheikh Salah al-Obaidi, a senior member of Sadr group strongly denounced the US
crimes and massacres against the people of the city.
Obaidi said in a statement given to Alalam satellite TV on Saturday evening that
"There are crimes against humanity committed by the occupying troops in the Sadr
City, and there is a provocation by targeting children and women."
The US military has recently launched a full-scale crackdown against the people
in Sadr City killing the people there everyday.
On Saturday fierce clashes between gunmen and the US troops in Baghdad's Sadr
City killed at least eight people, including two children.
The US military began building a concrete wall there last week. But the
construction project has angered local followers of Sadr.
Sadr on Friday called upon his followers and security forces to stop
confrontation, a week after he warned of "open war" against the occupying troops
in Iraq.
He asked all Iraqi groups to continue to observe the ceasefire and not to battle
government forces.
He also made clear his battle was against US occupying troops, whom he has
demanded leave Iraq.
"My brothers in the Mehdi Army and the Iraqi forces, be a single hand and stop
shedding each other's blood. Support all types of resistance in order to have a
safe Iraq," Sadr said.
Source: Al-Alam News
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