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la domanda e' se la strage sciita c'e' stata o meno.
sono andato su www.cnn.com e in prima pagina non se ne parla proprio.
d'accordo, parlano di new orleans...
pero' nella sezione world in prima pagina c'e' lo spazio per ben tre link,
ma nessuno di questi link e' su bagdad. bisogna andare nella sezione
interna.
allora vado su news.google.com e trovo questo link a voice of america, nel
quale si mette in discussione che ci sia stato qualcosa....
http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-09-01-voa3.cfm
Questions Arising about Alleged Bridge Stampede in Baghdad
By Alisha Ryu
Kadhimiya, Iraq
01 September 2005
Iraqi officials say 965 Shi'ite pilgrims were killed Wednesday in a stampede
on a bridge leading to a Baghdad shrine, but other Iraqi security officials,
politicians, and the U.S. military in Baghdad are questioning the facts
surrounding reports of the stampede in the northwest Kadhimiya district of
the capital.
Accompanied by both U.S. and Iraqi army officials, VOA arrived at the
Kadhimiya bridge about two o'clock Wednesday afternoon, roughly three hours
after news agencies and television news stations began reporting that a
deadly stampede had occurred at the site.
According to the reports which quoted Iraqi officials in Baghdad, thousands
of people, mostly Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims, were traveling across the bridge
on foot from neighboring Adhimiya district to a shrine in Kadhimiya to
attend a ceremony mourning the death of a revered Shi'ite imam. Suddenly, a
panic broke out, sending pilgrims fleeing for their lives.
The minister of health, Abdul Mutalib Mohammed Ali, said that hundreds of
women, children and the elderly were trampled to death in the ensuing melee
and hundreds of others jumped to their deaths in the Tigris River. Mr. Ali,
who is close to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, has called for the
resignations of the ministers of interior and defense, blaming them for
failing to ensure the security of the pilgrims.
The Iraqi army brigadier general in charge of security on the Kadhimiya
side, Jaleel Khalaf Shuail, says he did not witness the stampede, but was
told how it began. General Shuail says someone apparently screamed that a
suicide bomber was among the crowd of people and triggered the panic.
On the bridge itself Wednesday afternoon, there was one striking sight,
which did suggest that something catastrophic had occurred earlier. Hundreds
of pairs of shoes littered both sides of the two-lane bridge, which some
Iraqis said belonged to the more than 900 Shi'ites who allegedly perished in
the stampede.
But there was also a strange absence of ambulances, medical personnel and
rescue activities on the bridge or in the river. There was no sign of blood
anywhere on the bridge and not a drop of blood could be found on a row of
knee-high concrete barriers, which many of the victims were said to have
been crushed against.
The barriers had been placed there the day before to deter suicide car
bombings. Iraqi and U.S. military personnel, stationed at guard towers at a
nearby base with a clear view of the bridge, report that they saw nothing
out of the ordinary occurring on the bridge all morning.
Footage of the bridge from an American reconnaissance plane also shows no
activity consistent with the reports of mass panic and deaths. The only
confirmed incident on Wednesday in Kadhimiya was an early morning mortar and
rocket attack, targeting the Shi'ite shrine where an estimated one million
Shi'ites from around the country had gathered by day's end.
VOA visited the nearby Kadhimiya Hospital and found eight bodies and 33
civilians being treated for wounds.
The U.S. military says 20 suspects are now being held for questioning in the
incident.
la domanda e' se la strage sciita c'e' stata o meno.
sono andato su www.cnn.com e in prima pagina non se ne parla proprio.
d'accordo, parlano di new orleans...
pero' nella sezione world in prima pagina c'e' lo spazio per ben tre link,
ma nessuno di questi link e' su bagdad. bisogna andare nella sezione
interna.
allora vado su news.google.com e trovo questo link a voice of america, nel
quale si mette in discussione che ci sia stato qualcosa....
http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-09-01-voa3.cfm
Questions Arising about Alleged Bridge Stampede in Baghdad
By Alisha Ryu
Kadhimiya, Iraq
01 September 2005
Iraqi officials say 965 Shi'ite pilgrims were killed Wednesday in a stampede
on a bridge leading to a Baghdad shrine, but other Iraqi security officials,
politicians, and the U.S. military in Baghdad are questioning the facts
surrounding reports of the stampede in the northwest Kadhimiya district of
the capital.
Accompanied by both U.S. and Iraqi army officials, VOA arrived at the
Kadhimiya bridge about two o'clock Wednesday afternoon, roughly three hours
after news agencies and television news stations began reporting that a
deadly stampede had occurred at the site.
According to the reports which quoted Iraqi officials in Baghdad, thousands
of people, mostly Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims, were traveling across the bridge
on foot from neighboring Adhimiya district to a shrine in Kadhimiya to
attend a ceremony mourning the death of a revered Shi'ite imam. Suddenly, a
panic broke out, sending pilgrims fleeing for their lives.
The minister of health, Abdul Mutalib Mohammed Ali, said that hundreds of
women, children and the elderly were trampled to death in the ensuing melee
and hundreds of others jumped to their deaths in the Tigris River. Mr. Ali,
who is close to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, has called for the
resignations of the ministers of interior and defense, blaming them for
failing to ensure the security of the pilgrims.
The Iraqi army brigadier general in charge of security on the Kadhimiya
side, Jaleel Khalaf Shuail, says he did not witness the stampede, but was
told how it began. General Shuail says someone apparently screamed that a
suicide bomber was among the crowd of people and triggered the panic.
On the bridge itself Wednesday afternoon, there was one striking sight,
which did suggest that something catastrophic had occurred earlier. Hundreds
of pairs of shoes littered both sides of the two-lane bridge, which some
Iraqis said belonged to the more than 900 Shi'ites who allegedly perished in
the stampede.
But there was also a strange absence of ambulances, medical personnel and
rescue activities on the bridge or in the river. There was no sign of blood
anywhere on the bridge and not a drop of blood could be found on a row of
knee-high concrete barriers, which many of the victims were said to have
been crushed against.
The barriers had been placed there the day before to deter suicide car
bombings. Iraqi and U.S. military personnel, stationed at guard towers at a
nearby base with a clear view of the bridge, report that they saw nothing
out of the ordinary occurring on the bridge all morning.
Footage of the bridge from an American reconnaissance plane also shows no
activity consistent with the reports of mass panic and deaths. The only
confirmed incident on Wednesday in Kadhimiya was an early morning mortar and
rocket attack, targeting the Shi'ite shrine where an estimated one million
Shi'ites from around the country had gathered by day's end.
VOA visited the nearby Kadhimiya Hospital and found eight bodies and 33
civilians being treated for wounds.
The U.S. military says 20 suspects are now being held for questioning in the
incident.