Wikileaks: Civilians gunned down at checkpoints

Full details of how US soldiers killed innocent Iraqi civilians at road checkpoints are revealed in the war logs published by Wikileaks.
The Telegraph
Oct. 25, 2010

In one incident, in September 2005, two US soldiers saw a vehicle approaching in the dark on a main road near Musayyib, south of Baghdad. They waved their arms and flashed lights.

When the car failed to stop they fired warning shots, then opened fire with M249 automatic light machine guns. Each soldier fired up to 100 rounds, killing a man and a woman in the front of the car and wounding their children, aged six and nine, in the legs.

Many other Iraqis, including dozens of women and children, were killed at checkpoints, on roads and in raids on people's homes, according to the logs.

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