I cannot fully judge the case, though other people I respect, who are more qualified than I, tell me that it is true. It is also fully believable if you put it in context with many other happenings of the sort. And the site does not push under the rug killings by Iraqis, for instance of Christians by Muslims. Anyway, I urge you to visit, for more details and your own appreciation and for updates on the case, the very interesting and informative portal site

Healing Iraq

Daily news and comments on the situation in post Saddam Iraq

They have a nice motto on their site:

"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of what he was never reasoned into." Jonathan Swift

The site is here:

http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/archives/2004_01_01_healingiraq_archive.html

Another incident related on that site (at a Baghdad wedding, where the guests, following an Arab tradition known to me already as a kid, shot in the air, which prompted another American unit to shoot also, but this time not in the air, but into at least one of the guests, making him a cripple for life maybe) shows the result of sending American hillbillies as GIs to a different and ancient culture unknown to them. Well, the hillbillies can and should be located much higher up in the social hierarchy than with the GIs. Shouldn't one at least know the language of the people one wants to shoot, oops, liberate? Not knowing anything or only a little makes wars possible in the first place.

Further on the matter of "liberation" as the Empire sees it, you may want to read

http://electroniciraq.net/news/1313.shtml

and if you cannot believe it, you can and will believe what the aggressor admits himself:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/01/05/international0844EST0497.DTL