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The site “Raven 23”, which asked the defendants’ pardon, said the defendants had been subjected to a smear campaign and added: “Four veterans were euthanized for politics and were convicted on false charges,” according to the New York Times.
The website read: “In September 2007, terrorists detonated a car bomb near the location where a US diplomat was present. The team was deployed to ensure the diplomat’s return safely.”
“After they set up a roadblock in Nisour Square, a white Kia car headed towards their convoy and refused to stop. A team stopped the car but was attacked, resulting in the death of many Iraqis,” he said. , and noted that there are images and audio recordings that prove they were fired from small arms.
The Washington Post emphasized that the amnesty reflects the division around the Iraq war, between those who see the Eagles Square incident as a reflection of a state of immorality and the feeling of being able to kill with impunity, and those who see it as an example. of how Americans can risk their lives for the good of their homeland only to find themselves in prison charged with crimes. Horrible outside his government.
Last October, the four convicted men confessed to the charges against them, which included murder and first-degree murder, in the shooting that occurred in Baghdad’s Nisour Square on September 16, 2007, in which 17 Iraqi civilians were killed, according to Iraqi investigators. and 14 according to US researchers. The accident also resulted in injuries to 17 other people.
“Today we hear that they were released on the basis of a personal pardon from President Trump, as if they did not care about the blood of the Iraq spill,” said Saleh Abed, a Baghdad resident, walking in Nisour Square.
The father of one of the children killed in the incident added that the clemency decision “again destroyed my life.” As for Adel Khazali, whose father Ali was killed in the attack, he told The Guardian newspaper that he was shocked by the news. “Justice does not exist. I ask the American people to stand up.” With us. I lost my father. Many innocent women and children also died. “
He added: “I ask the United States government to reconsider, because the American courts with this decision lose their reputation. Trump has no right to pardon the murderers of innocent people.”
“Trump has no right to decide on behalf of the families of the victims the forgiveness of these criminals. It is against human rights and against the law. In Iraqi law, they can only be forgiven if the families of the victims forgive them.” said Haider Al-Barzanji, an Iraqi scholar and scholar. File a complaint against Trump when the Biden administration begins. “
The United Nations Human Rights Office said Wednesday it was “deeply concerned” by the amnesty decisions, which it said “contribute to impunity and have the effect of encouraging others to commit such crimes in the future.”
On Wednesday, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry criticized US President Donald Trump’s decision to grant an amnesty to Americans convicted of killing Iraqi citizens in Baghdad in 2007, in an incident known as the “Plaza incident. of the Eagles “.
The ministry said it believes that “the decision did not take into account the seriousness of the crime committed and is inconsistent with the declared commitment of the US administration to the values of human rights, justice and the rule of law, and regrettably ignores dignity of the victims and the feelings and rights of their families “.
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry said it would follow up the matter with the US government “through diplomatic channels, to urge it to reconsider this decision.”
