WikiLeaks disclosure reopens Iraqi inquiry into massacre of family

of inquiry to investigate allegations that U.S. soldiers handcuffed and executed women and children during a raid in 2006

The Iraqi government is launching a new investigation into one of the most controversial incidents of the war in Iraq, after the publication of a diplomatic cable, alleging that American soldiers handcuffed and executed women and children during a raid of 2006.

troops were also accused of soliciting an air strike to destroy the evidence.

An aide to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Friday that previous research had blocked, but the government could revive his research as a result of new information.

In 2006, there were conflicting accounts of what happened in the city Ishaqi, north of Baghdad, the troops said that nothing had bad past, but the villagers suggested the death was an attack to avenge the death of two soldiers before.

A diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks this week revealed that a UN official, Philip Alston, the United States said in 2006 had received information that all residents of the house had been shot in the head. His speech was not publicized at the time.

The letter has inflamed public opinion in Iraq at a delicate moment in US-Iraqi relations in the midst of difficult negotiations on the retention of U.S. bases in Iraq after the scheduled departure of the troops U.S. in December.

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new information was sufficient to deny Americans the basics and require that all soldiers leave.

• "The new report on this crime will have its impact on the signing of any new agreement," said an Iraqi MP, Aliya Nusayif, told the AP. She said the Iraqi parliament was to investigate and prosecute U.S. soldiers who commit crimes in Iraq in the future.

In the negotiations on keeping U.S. troops in Iraq, Washington is demanding immunity for all U.S. military. But the Maliki spokesman, Ali al-Moussawi, said: "We will not waive the rights of the Iraqi people, and this issue will continue."

The memo leaked onto the State Department, dated March 27, 12 days after the incident, said the U.S. Mission in Geneva, had received a letter from Alston, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary. In his letter, Mr. Alston said he had received several reports about the murders, and the dead Hratt Faiz Khalaf, 28, his wife, three children, mother, sister, two nieces, a period of three years and a parent to visit.

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