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“They stole money and Jewels from the house, … and caused panic among our children,” she complained.
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BAGHDAD,
May 30 (IslamOnline.net) – In the early hours of Friday, May 30, a
U.S. occupation force broke into a house of an Iraqi family in Baghdad
and detained two of its residents; with no reasons cited for such a
provocation that clearly left anti-American sentiments on the rise.
This
is the kind of stories many Iraqis used to recount, with a mixture of
regret and frustration over “rosy” promises earlier touted by the
U.S. forces before their invasion of the country on March 20.
“They
stormed into the house, smashed every thing and took two men with
them,” complained one of the house inhabitants to Al-Jazeera
correspondent.
The
report showed traces of the destruction wrecked by the U.S. soldiers,
who gave no justification for their raid.
“They
throw a bomb before entering the house and crossed over the fence
around, as if they are hunting thieves,” lamented the wife of one of
the detainees.
The
two men include a driver and another who seems to have been a former
member of the ousted regime’s security body, said the report of
al-Jazeera.
“If
they want my husband, why they caused all this damage to our
properties,” she said, with tears and cries falling in conjunction.
“They
stole money and Jewels from the house, … and caused panic among our
children,” she complained.
Anti-American
sentiments are boiling in many parts of the country, with
house-to-house searches usually justified as an effort to restore
order in the war-torn country.
Some
believe that resistance should begin to drive the occupation forces
out and set a national representative administration at the helm, now
run by American civil administrator Paul Bremer.
In
Baqubah, 45 miles northeast of Baghdad, U.S. soldiers shot and killed
a woman who tried to approach them carrying two hand grenades last
week.
The
shooting took place immediately after unknown attackers threw
hand-held explosives at U.S. soldiers, according to the Central
Command.
The
country saw a flare-up of resistance and attacks against U.S. military
targets this month, that left 20 American soldiers dead.
A
U.S. soldier was killed and another injured in an explosion at a
facility containing Iraqi ammunition south of Baghdad.
In
Fallujah, demonstrations calling for an end to occupation ended with
19 civilians dead and 76 at least injured by the U.S. gunfire on April
28 and April 30.
Few
days afterwards, seven U.S. soldiers were wounded in a grenade attack
in the city.
Two
U.S. soldiers were
killed and nine others injured in another "hostile fire”
attack in the same city last week.
