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Shoppers 3, Terrorists 0
EFLBaghdad Residents Kill Three Militants 58 minutes ago Middle East - AP By TRACI CARL, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - Shopkeepers and residents on one of Baghdad's main streets pulled out their own guns Tuesday and killed three insurgents when hooded men began shooting at passers-by, giving a rare victory to civilians increasingly frustrated by the violence bleeding Iraq (news - web sites). The clash in the capital's southern Doura neighborhood erupted when militants in three cars sprayed bullets at shoppers. Three people — a man, a woman and a child — were wounded. The motive was unclear, but there have been previous attacks in the ethnically mixed neighborhood. With no evidence at all, this off-hand comment suggests that the lefty catch-all "ethnic tension" may be responsible and that Iraqis may not be fed up with insurgent vermin after all. To MSM droids the world is a movie and terrorists, like other criminals, have the James Dean role. Earlier in the day, gunmen in the same quarter killed a policeman as he drove to work, police Lt. Col. Hafidh Al-Ghrayri said. A forceful citizen response is rare, but not unheard of in a country where conflict has become commonplace and the law allows each home to have a weapon. Early this month, police said townsmen in Wihda, 25 miles south of Baghdad, attacked a group of militants believed planning to raid the town and killed seven. Tuesday's gunbattle came as seven-member U.S. congressional delegation paid a one-day visit to Baghdad, and the man expected to serve as the next prime minister, Shiite politician Ibrahim al-Jaafari, reportedly told the group he is in no hurry for U.S. troops to leave Iraq. Sen. Barbara Boxer (news, bio, voting record), a Democrat from California who strongly opposed the war, said al-Jaafari didn't seem as "upbeat as our people, who seem to be very excited about the quality of the Iraqi police force." Don't tell Box-o-rocks about the dead terrorists, she'll make a speech labeling them as "children" and deploring their deaths at the hands of gun-crazed shopper-vigilantes. Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2005-03-22 |
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