Anonymous AP Source Says US Soldiers Beat Wounded Zarqawi
Charles Johnson
Sat Jun 10, 2006 at 7:21 am PDT • Views: 301
The Associated Press will report absolutely anything that makes America look bad, even the unsubstantiated accusations of an unidentified person who supposedly lived in the area where Zarqawi was hiding: Iraqi claims U.S. GIs beat wounded man.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi man who was one of the first people on the scene of the U.S. airstrike targeting Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said he saw American troops beating a man who had a beard like the al-Qaida leader.
The witness, who lives near the house where al-Zarqawi spent his last days, said he saw the man lying on the ground near an irrigation canal. He was badly wounded but still alive, the man told Associated Press Television News.
U.S. troops arriving on the scene wrapped the man’s head in an Arab robe and began beating him, said the local man, who refused to give his name or show his face to the camera. His account could not be independently verified.
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