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Air raids in Iraq hit mostly children and women, more attacks and arrests
April 18, 2009Yaqen.net reported the following news:
- The 1920s Brigades fighters attacked a US Hummer in northern Iraq.
- The 1920s Brigades fighters attacked the US base in Baghdad airport with a rocket.
- A roadside bomb exploded damaging a US vehicle east of Ba'aqouba.
- US forces killed a US-recruited Sahwa fighter near his home in Beiji, as he had his weapon.
- A US Hummer vehicle was destroyed by a roadside bomb on Al-Qayara road, in Mosul.
- Several arrest campaigns and attacks have been conducted all over Iraq resulting in injuring and arresting many Iraqis.
Air raids in Iraq hit mostly children and women- paper
April 18, 2009 - 11:28:24
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq:
Iraqi women and children constitute a large number of the victims of air strikes and artillery barrages in Iraq, The Independent said in a report.
“Analysis carried out for the research group Iraq Body Count (IBC) found that 39 per cent of those killed in air raids by the US-led coalition were children and 46 per cent were women. Fatalities caused by mortars, used by American and Iraqi government forces as well as insurgents, were 42 per cent children and 44 per cent women,” according to the report.
“Twelve per cent of those killed by suicide bombings, mainly the tool of militant Sunni groups, were children and 16 per cent were females. One in five (21 per cent) of those killed by car bombs, used by both Shia and Sunni fighters, was a child; one in four (28 per cent) was a woman,” it noted.
“The figures, compiled by academics at King’s College and Royal Holloway,
University of London, show that hi-tech weaponry has caused lethal damage to
those in the population who would be furthest away from the conflict.
“The victims of one of the most brutal and common types of killings in the
war – abduction and execution by death squad – were 95 per cent men, many of
them bearing marks of torture,” according to the newspaper.
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