Eyewitness To Brutal Crimes Against Iraqis

I was shopping at about 11:30 a.m. at a compound of supermarkets and I saw the Turks shopping. They had parked their cars (armored navy blue Mercedes A class) and they were on foot, carrying their guns and wearing armors. It's ordinary to see them there.

I was going to the compound they entered when I remembered I wanted to buy meat so I entered the butcher's shop, about 50 meters away from the supermarket. Five minutes later, I came out as soon as I stepped out of the butcher's shop, I realized the rifle of one of the Turks was carrying accidentally went off (or that's what I think it was). Then the other Turks started shooting randomly (I think they thought they were being attacked).

They were shooting at people like they were not humans; they were shooting like they were shooting at dogs. People started to run and others tried to hide and I immediately went back to the Butcher's shop while they continued shooting. The whole thing went on for one or two minutes and then they ran back to their cars and drove away without thinking of what they did and who was injured or killed.

A few minutes later, I went to the site and I saw the people carrying two men…one of them was an old man injured in the head and was unconscious (most probably he was dead) and the other one was covered with blood. I think he was injured in the leg and torso (I think he will not survive).

I can't describe what my feeling was…no words can be satisfactory when you see innocent people killed like this for nothing. And the ones who killed them just went away like nothing happened.