(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The cable contains questions by a United Nations official about a March 15, 2006 incident in the central Iraqi town of Ishaqi, about 130 kilometers (80 miles) northwest of the capital Baghdad, according to a report on the website of the US-based Bellingham Herald newspaper on Wednesday.
All those killed in the incident had been handcuffed and shot in the head. Among the dead were four women and five children. The children were all five years old or younger, according to Philip Alston, former UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
The US military claimed that an al-Qaeda suspect had been seized from a house in the area. But according to the cable, the US troops called in an airstrike on the house to destroy any evidence of the murders after the deadly incident.
Washington has not provided any response to Alston's questions yet.
Alston said that US administration has left many such inquiries “in the 2006-2007 period” unanswered.
Bombings and other forms of violence escalated in Iraq soon after the US-led invasion of the country began in 2003.
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