Iraqi Speaker Decries US 'Butchery'
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Courtesy Of: Al Jazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net
07/22/06

US forces have committed butchery in Iraq and should leave, the Speaker of the country's Parliament has said.

Mahmoud al-Mashhadani was speaking on Saturday at a UN-sponsored Conference on Transnational Justice and Reconciliation in Baghdad.

"Just get your hands off Iraq and the Iraqi people and Muslim countries, and everything will be all right," he said in a speech as the conference opened.

"What has been done in Iraq is a kind of butchery of the Iraqi people."

He also criticised US support for Israeli attacks against Lebanon.

...He related an anecdote about how American soldiers keep people at checkpoints for hours because they insist on resting their bomb-sniffing dogs.

"The sleep of American dogs is more important than people being stopped in the street for hours," he said.