{"id":4116,"date":"2008-07-13T13:45:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T12:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=4116"},"modified":"2008-07-13T13:45:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T12:45:01","slug":"us-forces-apologize-for-civilian-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/us-forces-apologize-for-civilian-death\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. forces apologize for civilian death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aswataliraq.info\/look\/english\/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&amp;IdPublication=4&amp;NrArticle=85475&amp;NrIssue=2&amp;NrSection=1\" target=\"_blank\">Thi-Qar<\/a> | The U.S. forces offered an official apology for the Thi-Qar province police over the killing of a civilian in an airdrop operation on Friday, a security official said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The apology, offered on Saturday by two senior U.S. officers, involved a pledge not to conduct any more operations without the previous knowledge of the local police,&#8221; the Thi-Qar police chief, Brig. Sabah Mohsen al-Fatlawi, told Aswat al-Iraq \u2014 <em>Voices of Iraq<\/em> \u2014 (VOI).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The U.S. side also pledged to afford moral and financial compensations for the wounded victims in the operation and pay for their treatment and transport to Baghdad,&#8221; Fatlawi added.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday the media advisor for the U.S. army, Abdellatif Rayan, said a joint Iraqi-U.S. force killed a civilian and wounded two others during an airdrop operation in central al-Nassiriya city during the early hours of the day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The airdropping targeted the house of a wanted man believed to be a financer of special groups in al-Thawra neighborhood, central Nassiriya. The force opened fire at a man when he raised a weapon, killing him in self defense and wounding two others,&#8221; Rayan told VOI.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Maj. Nasser al-Majidi, a media spokesman for the Thi-Qar province police, told VOI a U.S. force airdropped troops on the house of 65-year-old citizen Muhammad Hammoud Hereiz in Nassiriya, killing him instantly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The U.S. force denied access to Iraqi policemen to the area under the gun,&#8221; the source said, not indicating the reason for this U.S. operation.<\/p>\n<p>Thi-Qar, 380 km south of Baghad, has an area of 12,900 square kilometers (4,980.7 sq mi). In 2003 the estimated population of the governorate was 1,454,200 people. Thi-Qar&#8217;s capital is the city of al-Nassiriya. It also includes the ancient Sumerian ruins of Ur, Eridu, Lagash and Ngirsu. Before 1976 the province was known as al-Muntafiq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thi-Qar | The U.S. forces offered an official apology for the Thi-Qar province police over the killing of a civilian in an airdrop operation on Friday, a security official said. \u00a0 &#8220;The apology, offered on Saturday by two senior U.S. officers, involved a pledge not to conduct any more operations without the previous knowledge 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":[16],"tags":[76],"class_list":{"0":"post-4116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-war-terrorism","7":"tag-warfare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116","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=4116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}