INNOCENT IRAQI TEENAGER KILLED BY U.S. APACHE HELICOPTER

It is a story that happens all too often in Iraq. An innocent civilian is mistaken as an insurgent and they are gunned down by U.S. military forces.

Only this time it was an innocent Iraqi teenager who was the victim of U.S. military air strike by an Apache helicopter.

Is this any way to win the "hearts and minds" of the Iraqi people?

US Regrets Killing Innocent Teen Near Samarra
An Iraqi teenager was killed during an attack by coalition forces south of Samarra , officials said.

Apache pilots attacked six people digging on a road known to have a past history of bomb attacks on Iraq and coalition forces, according to a news release issued Saturday by Multi-National Corps—Iraq. Iraqi and coalition soldiers were ordered to take a look at the area.

Forty people in a nearby house said six boys were digging roots for firewood. No one was detained and no evidence was found of bomb materials, officials said. [Their “regrets” will not stop them from doing it again and again….. and the vast majority of the air strikes in Iraq were not against “insurgents” or “terrorists” but against ordinary Iraqis trying to survive.

US military has made videos of bombing Iraqis who were just as innocent (as far as the video shows) as this teenager. The real terrorists are the ones dropping the bombs. – dancewater]