{"id":2379,"date":"2008-02-05T11:01:51","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T11:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/us-forces-kill-iraq-family\/2379\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T11:01:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T11:01:51","slug":"us-forces-kill-iraq-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/us-forces-kill-iraq-family\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. forces kill Iraq family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/\">Xinhua<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. forces allegedly killed three people and wounded a fourth from one family in a town in Salahudin province, north of Baghdad, on Tuesday, a source from the U.S. and Iraqi liaison office said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The incident took place at dawn in the town of al-Dowr, 30 km north of the provincial capital of Tikrit, the source from the provincial Joint Coordination Center (JCC) told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He said that an interpreter working for the U.S. troops informed the branch of the JCC in the town of the killing and asked them to collect two bodies in a house in one of the town&#8217;s neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0An Iraqi police force headed to the scene and found three bodies&#8211;those of a man and his wife in their 40s as well as their18-year-old son. All of the three were killed with gunshots in the head, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The police also found many spent cartridges of weapons used by U.S. troops at the scene, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Residents at the neighborhood told the police force that they heard gunshots at dawn and saw U.S. military vehicles leaving the neighborhood later, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He also said that a 16-year-old daughter of the family made a call with a mobile phone for help as she was injured and taken by the U.S. troops to a medical facility in a U.S. base in the province.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The three bodies were transported to the main hospital of Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The U.S. military did not confirm the incident yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0On Monday, the U.S. military conceded in a statement that its troops had killed accidentally nine Iraqis and wounded three others, including two children, in a military operation against al-Qaida, near the town of Iskandariyah, about 50 km south of Baghdad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xinhua The U.S. forces allegedly killed three people and wounded a fourth from one family in a town in Salahudin province, north of Baghdad, on Tuesday, a source from the U.S. and Iraqi liaison office said. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The incident took place at dawn in the town of al-Dowr, 30 km north of the provincial capital of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21,16],"tags":[38],"class_list":{"0":"post-2379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"category-human-rights","8":"category-war-terrorism","9":"tag-iraq"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}