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US troops ’kill ten during Mosul protest’
American style of DEMOCRACY
US troops opened fire on a crowd of Iraqis opposed to the US-installed governor in Mosul today, killing at least ten people and injuring as many as 100, according to witnesses and doctors.
Gee, those Iraqis will never learn, if you are not with us you are against us.
The incident overshadowed the start of US-brokered talks in al-Nasariyah over post-war Iraq and could ignite anti-US sentiment in Baghdad. Witnesses said that US troops had fired into a crowd which was becoming increasingly hostile towards the new governor, Mashaan al-Juburi, as he was making a pro-US speech in the northern oil city. "There are perhaps 100 wounded and ten to 12 dead," said Dr Ayad al-Ramadhani at the city hospital.
I told you, don't interrupt a pro-US speech, sieg heil!
Oh, so it wasn't just a "crowd", it was a "mob"...
US forces said that they had come under fire from at least two gunmen and fired back, but did not aim at the crowd.
An armed mob...
A military spokesman said: "There were protesters outside, 100 to 150, there was fire, we returned fire." He said that the shooting came from a roof opposite the building, about 75 metres (yards) away. "We didn't fire at the crowd, but at the top of the building. "There were at least two gunmen, I don't know if they were killed.
We shot at the roofs and the crowd were hit by bullits falling down, the gravity did it.
No doubt the crowd was easier to hit than the gunnies...
"The firing was not intensive but sporadic, and lasted up to two minutes." Marwan Mohammed, 50, a witness, said: "The people moved toward the government building, the children threw stones, the Americans started firing. Then they prevented the people from recovering the bodies."
What, you liar Americans would never do that, they are here to liberate you, one more word and the next bullit is for you!
Ayad Hassun, 37, said: "They (the soldiers) climbed on top of the building and first fired at a building near the crowd, with the glass falling on the civilians. People started to throw stones, then the Americans fired at them. Dozens of people fell."
Yasss... Terrible things sometimes happen at riots...

Posted by: Murat 2003-04-15
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