Archivado en: internacional | escrito por goleech | 01/20/2005 | 10:36

The Independent publica hoy un artículo de Chris Hondros, fotógrafo de Getty News, que detalla lo sucedido en Tel Afar, Iraq.

The car continued coming. And then, perhaps less than a second later, a cacophony of fire, shots rattling off in a chaotic overlapping din. The car entered the intersection on its momentum and still shots were penetrating it and slicing it. Finally the shooting stopped, the car drifted listlessly, clearly no longer being steered, and came to a rest on a kerb. Soldiers began to approach it warily. The sound of children crying came from the car. I walked up to the car and a teenaged girl with her head covered emerged from the back, wailing and gesturing wildly. After her came a boy, tumbling on to the ground from the seat, already leaving a pool of blood.

"Why did they shoot us? We have no weapons! We were just going home!", gritaba una de las niñas heridas en el hospital de Tel Afar.

Soldados estadounidenses dispararon a un carro en movimiento, matando a dos de los tripulantes, la madre y el padre de una familia turcomana. En el asiento trasero viajaban 6 niños, según la versión de Hondros. En un principio se manejo la versión de que el carro no se detuvo en un retén estadounidense, Hondros dice en su crónica que en un patrullaje a pie de "rutina" el carro se aproximó:

It was a routine foot patrol. As we made our way up a broad boulevard, in the distance I could see a car making its way toward us. As a defence against potential car bombs, it is now standard practice for foot patrols to stop oncoming vehicles, particularly after dark.

"We have a car coming," someone called out, as we entered an intersection. We could see the car about 100 metres away. It kept coming; I could hear its engine now, a high whine that sounded more like acceleration than slowing down. It was maybe 50 yards away now. "Stop that car!" someone shouted out, seemingly simultaneously with someone firing what sounded like warning shots - a staccato measured burst.

(Crónica completa de Chris Hondros)

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