Al-Jazeerah TV shows horrifying effects of US attack in various parts of Iraq

March 22: At 7 A.M. (Eastern Standard Time), Al-Jazeerah TV showed the results of a U.S. air attack on civilians who could be the families of Islamic Kurds in north-eastern Iraq.

It appears that U.S. jets fired missiles and bombs into a compound and surrounding homes near the Sulaimaniya area.

The area is under control of the Kurdish Islamic movement known as Ansar al-Islam.

The result of the bombing attack was the death of 59 Kurdish Muslim civilians. The graphic footage aired by Al-Jazeerah showed burned bodies, Hands torn off bodies, heads torn off bodies. The grisly scene was horrifying even for the hardened Al-Jazeerah reporter who seemed about to break down. According to Al-Jazeerah, the U.S. fired 70 missiles in this attack..

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U.S. media has refused to show the Al-Jazeerah footage.

American TV channels have limited themselves to saying that missiles have been launched at the Al-Ansar fundamentalist Islamists who are suspected of links to Al-Qaida.

CNN Headline News showed a two second view of the massacre which showed a few bodies being taken away but did not say that they were civilians or that the dead number 59.

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SECOND MASSACRE AIRED BY Al-JAZEERAH: 50 Killed in U.S. Air Attack on Basra. The second massacre in Basra clearly showed civilians killed in a US bombing raid. One photo of the killings which I (Badi Ali) have circulated is so horrifying that people can't bear to look at it. It shows a two year old

child killed in the attack with his skin peeled off (could be napalm.) . Four members of one family were killed.

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The U.S. media have refused to show the Al-Jazeerah footage of the massacre in Basra. One interesting comment was made by the MSNBC reporter (afternoon of March 22) that she had seen Al-Jazeerah footage of people killed in Basra but that it was "too graphic to be shown" on MSNBC.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------Attack on Elite 101st Airborne's Command Post in Kuwait: 16 wounded, 11 seriously Attacker Said to be U.S. Muslim soldier

According to U.S. news reports, there was an attack on the Brigade headquarters of a segment of the 101st Airborne Division stationed in Kuwait.

The attacker hurled three hand grenades and then opened light arms fire. Sixteen officers are reported wounded in the attack. Of these 11 are said to be seriously injured and have been evacuated.

The attacker is reported to be an American Muslim soldier stationed in the same area. He has apparently been shot in the leg. Only one channel (according to our viewers) showed a glimpse of the attacker. He seemed to be White. [After a flurry of initial reports, it appears that the Pentagon has

decided to suppress the information pending inquiry.]

COMPILED BY Syed A Hassan of Sydney