Madfloridian's Journal - Reliving what horrors we did in Fallujah. Marine court martial begins. War planners walk free.

Madfloridian's Journal - Reliving what horrors we did in Fallujah. Marine court martial begins. War planners walk free.

A court martial began on April 1st.

Court martial begins in killing of unarmed Iraqi captive

"We went into this house, there happened to be four or five guys in the house," Weemer said in a recording of the interview played during the prosecution's opening statement. "We ended up shooting them, we had to."

The U.S. military had ordered all civilians out of Fallujah ahead of an assault aimed at recapturing the city from insurgents.

"Operation Phantom Fury" involved vicious house-to-house fighting.

Weemer said in the interview that the unarmed Iraqis were slain because the Marines didn't have time to take the men to jail.

"We called up to the platoon leader and the response was, 'Are they dead yet?' " Weemer said in the recording.

The top gun leaders who planned the attacks on Fallujah had to know what they were doing..what would happen when you order civilians to leave their homes or they will die. The citizens of Fallujah wrote a letter to the UN, pleading with them to stop the US from the killing there.

Nothing was done.

People of Fallujah wrote a letter to the UN to plead with US not to attack.

This letter was signed by the following people of Fallujah, and sent to Kofi Annan.

Best regards.
Kassim Abdullsattar al-Jumaily
President
The Study Center of Human Rights & Democracy

On behalf of the people of Fallujah and for:
Al-Fallujah Shura Council
The Bar Association
The Teacher Union
Council of Tribes Leaders
The House of Fatwa and Religious Education

It read in part:

His Excellency Mr. Kofi Annan Secretary General of the United Nations New York

Fallujah 14 October 2004

Your Excellency

"It is very obvious that the American forces are committing crimes of genocide every day in Iraq. Now, while we are writing to Your Excellency, the American forces are committing these crimes in the city of Fallujah. The American warplanes are dropping their most powerful bombs on the civilian in the city, killing and injured hundreds of innocent people. At the same time their tanks are attacking the city with heavy artillery. As you know, there is no military presence in the city. There had been no actions taken by the Fallujah resistance in recent weeks because the negotiations between representatives of the city and the Government which were going well. In this atmosphere, the new bombardment by America has happened while the people of Fallujah have been preparing themselves for the fast of Ramadan. Now many of them are now trapped under the wreckage of their demolished houses, and nobody can help them while the attack continues.

On the night of the 13th October alone American bombardment demolished 50 houses on top of their residents. Is this a genocidal crime or a lesson about the American democracy? It is obvious that the Americans are committing acts of terror against the people of Fallujah for one reason only: their refusal to accept the Occupation.

Your Excellency and the whole world know that the Americans and their allies devastated our country under the pretext of the threat of WMD. Now, after all the destruction and the killing of thousand civilians, they have admitted that there no weapons were found. But they have said nothing about all the crimes they committed. Unfortunately everybody is now silent, and will not even dignify the murdered Iraqi civilians with words of condemnation. Are the Americans going to pay compensation as Iraq has been forced to do after the Gulf war?"