"Bad people have parties too."

U.S. Reacts to Mogr al-Deeb Wedding Party Video

Kimmitt Rises to New Lows as Bush Plumbs the Depths


'Bad people have parties too.' Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt

I can see how dozens of women, children and celebrating men would be a 'threat' though. Yes, it makes perfect sense.

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"Contrary to media reports, there was no wedding tent and no nuptial tent in the area," Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy operations director for Multinational Force Iraq said during a Baghdad news conference.

"To the allegation that there was a wedding going on, there was no evidence of a wedding," Kimmitt reiterated. "There were no decorations, no musical instruments found, no large quantities of food or leftover servings one would expect from a wedding celebration and no gifts.

"The men were almost all military-aged, no family elders that one would expect to see at an event of this type," he said.

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Kimmitt said there may have been some kind of celebration going on at the said (sic), but not a wedding. "Bad people have celebrations too," he noted. "Bad people have parties too. It may have been that what was seen as some sort of celebration may have just been a meeting in the middle of the desert by some people that were conducting either criminal or terrorist activities. That's the conclusion we're continuing to draw the more we look at the material, intelligence, post-strike, and follow-up intelligence."

Kimmitt said the coalition believes "a handful of women" could have been present. "We believe six were killed, and we acknowledge that in all of our reports," he said. "But there are still not reports of any children being killed."

Kimmitt said a videotape distributed to the media showing at least a dozen bodies, including small children, wrapped in blankets for burial, being unloaded from a truck doesn't look like the video taken at the site of the attack.

"None of the geography in those videos match the geography of this open area," he noted. "But there are still some inconsistencies. We still remain opened-minded about this. We'll continue to look into everything that's provided to us in the way of evidence." more...


Spc. Sabrina Harman and murder victim Manadil al-Jamadi show us a really good time.

Celebrating women and children are not civilians. 'Contractors' traveling with the American army to torture and kill Iraqis ARE civilians. CIA personnel are 'civilians' and the people who planned and executed the war are all civilians. We're not civilians - we are insurgents, criminals and potential collateral damage.

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Note EastSouthWestNorth gives comprehensive coverage to articles and footage covering the massacre. I've no doubt, as Reuters reports George W. Bush's popularity dipping to a point beneath which no recent U.S. presidential candidate has won a November election, Brigadier General Kimmitt will soon be showing us his video.