Kamal Taha of Agence France-Presse on Shepherd sues over slaughter:
An Iraqi shepherd is seeking $US200 million ($300 million) in damages from the United States military for the deaths of 17 members of his family in a missile strike, in the first such suit filed through the courts of the US-led occupation administration.
The first hearing will take place on July 20 at the tribunal of Ramadi, 100 kilometres west of Baghdad.
Abud Sarhan's lawyer, Rabah al-Alwani, said he was approached by Mr Sarhan, 71, to file a suit against the US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, and General Tommy Franks, commander of US forces in Iraq, after the shepherd said a US missile landed on his tent on April 4.
What exactly does Mr. Sarhan expect? That his family be alive to enjoy the occupation liberation? Come on now, let's not be greedy. They may be dead, but at least they're free now.
I've a funny feeling that Mr. Sarhan wasn't one of the dancing-in-the-streets Iraqis that warbloggers repeatedly mentioned in their breathless self-righteous postings in recent months. Not that they really care, mind you.
Link courtesy of Rational Review News Digest.