February Saturday 18th 2006 (14h32) :

Fifteen years ago, and exactly on 13 Feb. 1991, USA air forces bombed civilian shelter in Baghdad. The shelter was used to give peaceful place for children, women and elderly people in Al-Aameria district in Baghdad during the 1991 war against Iraq. The bombing was deliberate since, two special rockets were used; one made an opening in the reinforced concrete ceiling while the other penetrated through to give huge amount of fire into the shelter. The results was the brutal killing of about 400 civilian Iraqis, whose flesh, blood and bones were smeared, due to excessive heat of the rocket, with the fractured walls.

There was no excuse for any mistake, since that shelter was very well known to American forces. It was built by an European firm, from which the USA air force has taken design details. Thus the bombing was a very well planed job as it was a very well planned crime. It was meant to kill large number of Iraqi civilians so as to shock the people allover Iraq and thus may force the Iraqi government to surrender.

That was one of the crimes of Mr. Bush, the father, however, Mr. Bush, the son, has recorded much higher number in the killing of Iraqis, and he is still killing more, His war has left 100,000 dead in its first 18 months. Yet larger number of deaths has happened in the second 17 months. The USA troops usually shoot deliberately, anywhere and anytime they just suspect the Iraqis, with no warning . Amid these killings, the UN and its secretary Generals, the former and the current ones kept silent. Nobody spoke of compensation to the families of the killed Iraqis during the last 15 years. However, Mr. Kofi Annan, the UN secretary general, announced recently that Syrian and Lebanese governments should compensate for the damages incurred on the Danish Embassies!!!.

Consequently we should ask the following questions:- 1- Why nobody cares when the victims are from the people of the developing countries ?. 2- Who is responsible for the violent acts against the embassies, the newspapers which insisted on insulting religious symbols or the Muslims who reacted after eras of oppression and negligence. 3- Whose is to be compensated for, the Danish embassies or the people in the Muslim world whose holiest symbol has been insulted ?. Is the answer " the double standards of the Bush administration" ?. Mohamed Younis Mosul / IRAQ