Iraq: War crimes on both sides

When the Saddam Hussein's trial will start, the former dictator will be held liable for one of his most infamous war crime: The chemical attacks against kurds at Halabja in 1988 (5,000 casualties).
http://www.islamonline.net/English/In_Depth/Iraq_Aftermath/2004/12/article_04.shtml

Thes atrocities has become such a symbol that "Chemical Ali" will be judged first. This trial could possibly be timed to help the pro-American Iraqi prime-minister win the elections.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=593664

What about US war crimes? Well, noone forgot the Abu Grahim scandal.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4206257
http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=2444

We also heard recently about accounts of torture at Guantanamo Bay.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,1371610,00.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/405EE938-E463-4139-84E4-629CADCD504E.htm
These accounts were quickly rejected by the Pentagon (denial is easier... no pictures taken).
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30448488.htm

One story however has been mostly forgotten. It's a "very old" one.
"On February 13, 1991 two precision-guided American missiles struck the Al-Amariyah bomb shelter in Baghdad, incinerating hundreds of women and children and causing others to boil alive in scalding water" is said on an antiwar website: 408 casualties.
http://www.endthewar.org/Downloads/Amariyahnames.pdf

This atrocity was mentioned on March 15, 2003 by Irish Times' "The will of Saddam is replacing the fear":
"Every foreign journalist who comes here soon makes a pilgrimage to the al-Amariyah bomb shelter, which was hit by two American bombs on February 13th, 1991. It was packed with women and children, 408 of whom were killed.
Intesar al-Samarie, the guide, requires visitors to look carefully at dark marks, like shadows, on the wall. 'Here you can see a face, the mother's eyes, and here the child's body.' The marks come into focus. Hiroshima-like they are the stains left as people were literally blasted into the walls."
http://www.ireland.com/cgi-bin/dialogserver?DB=newspaper&THRESHOLD=90&QUERY00=The+will+of+Saddam+is+replacing+the+fear

Justice might be brought to Saddam Hussein's victims, meanwhile victims of the US military will have to wait a bit longer.