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"We ain’t got game!": Iraqi students riot over GIs playing basketball
Students of an Iraqi university rioted on Monday, protesting the presence of US soldiers on the campus to play basketball.

Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division had been invited to the Diyala university outside Baquba, some 60 km northeast of Baghdad, to play a friendly match with the students.

But some 200 students, angered by their presence, started to demonstrate, said university spokesman Qusay Abdul Khaleq.

Two buildings were looted, with windows smashed and doors ripped off their hinges, he added.


Our Pravda-envious pals over at Agence France Press strike again!
(No need to employ our weapon of EFL because details of this are so "sketchy.")
Notice how the Leftist media will cover every Iraqi who suffers from indigestion when they eat a U.S.-made can of Spam (like Saddam) and blame America first but will ignore important news like the peaceful anti-terror, pro-Coalition demonstrations that have been occurring with more and more frequency in liberated Iraq.

In this case, it looks as if a couple of hundred young Iraqis got violent because they so clearly "ain’t got game."

AFP doesn’t spell out anything specific that is anti-American, but the implications are there, not the least of which is that they decided that this was "news."

Sounds like a simple case of Christmas pick-up to me and the Iraqis who "rioted" were just bitter because they couldn’t "join in any reindeer games." Ba’athists=Rudolph?
Posted by: Jennie Taliaferro 2003-12-23
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=23230