U.S. Soldiers Danced Around Dead Iraqi Civilians

The issue of propaganda has surfaced recently. Here's some for the readers to ponder.

From IQNA.ir:

Grinned US soldiers were dancing around bodies of Iraqi civilians killed during a US-led onslaught on the western city of Haditha, residents said on Monday, November 29.

"I saw US soldiers laughing and dancing around the bodies of civilians killed in cold blood" a resident identified as Goma Al-Hadithi told the London-based Al-Quds Press news agency.

Occupation troops have killed in cold blood children, women and elderly in their house-to-house pre-dawn raids, he charged.

Al-Hadithi recalled that a week ago American troops bombarded several houses, killing four entire families just to avenge a nearby attack on a Humvee that left one of their fellow soldiers dead.

"They then lifted some 40 bodies from pools of blood and throw them in the yard of the Haditha hospital."

Hadithi, a former army officer, further charged that US troops once ordered five youths to lie prone on the ground before shooting them for no apparent reason.

There's more of the same at the link.

The charges are just too outrageous to be believable. My guess would be that, at best, they are a gross misinterpretation of events and, at worst, they're pure fiction. Either way, the report is written to incite the reader. It's propaganda. Oddly, the mainstream media hasn't picked it up yet and it happened four days ago. Thus far, the only other outlet I found to have the story is IslamOnline.net.

Companion post at In The Bullpen.