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| Iraqi Police Battle U.S. Troops 'By Mistake' |
| 2004-08-29 |
| U.S. forces fought with an Iraqi police unit in the center of the northern city of Kirkuk Saturday, police said, putting the clash down to a "mistake." Two Iraqi policemen were badly wounded and U.S. forces arrested six of their comrades after the overnight battle, police Colonel Farhat Qader said. "The battle happened by mistake," Qader said. He declined to elaborate. U.S. forces maintain bases in Kirkuk, a center of oil production. The city's Arab, Kurdish and Turkmen populations claim historical property rights that have caused sporadic violence since Saddam Hussein was toppled last year. |
| Posted by:Destro |
| #22 Does she always fade away when she's bested? Of course. Shre reminds me of the "minders" the Scientologists have on the anti-Scientology newsgroups. They post their crap, maybe make the occasional response, but as soon as someone gets the best of them, they fade away. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-08-29 6:54:54 PM |
| #21 Tap,tap, tap. Damn, something must be wrong with my computer. Three hours gone by and nothing back from Gentle. Or, maybe she's still reading the links that ed provided. Does she always fade away when she's bested? |
| Posted by: GK 2004-08-29 6:22:30 PM |
| #20 ZF -- you forgot that Christianity was the major religion of the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia Minor. Muslims massacred those who would not convert or pay jizyah. Sometimes (like with the Turkish Armenians), they massacred the non-Muslims just for the hell of it. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-08-29 6:06:26 PM |
| #19 A lot of folk have made that mistake... Should be a special category in the Darwin awards for it. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-08-29 5:53:11 PM |
| #18 Gentle hasn't figured out that we don't have to start the fight to end up the winners. |
| Posted by: too true 2004-08-29 5:44:26 PM |
| #17 I think whinning, as hateful as it is, is much better than murdering the innocent. I'm happy with the muslims being 500 years late on that. The Palestinians and bin Laden clearly don't agree. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-08-29 5:37:15 PM |
| #16 Hi gentle, If you get done reading the above links, here is another article listing some of the events in Islam-Hindu history. It's a bit long, so consider it as a homework assignment. http://www.hinduunity.org/articles/islamexposed/islaminaction1.html |
| Posted by: ed 2004-08-29 3:48:53 PM |
| #15 Dammit, you're right AHM. So Gentle who you like the the FSU Miami matchup? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-08-29 3:20:27 PM |
| #14 Gentle: No they are not. Sorry to disappiont you. Buddhism used to be the primary religion of Central Asia. Muslim warriors massacred anyone who wouldn't convert. Zoroastrianism used to be the primary religion of Iran. Same thing happened there. Don't assume that Americans know nothing about Islam's bloody hands. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-08-29 3:17:55 PM |
| #13 Do you hear that loud sucking sound? It's gentle sucking all the intelligence out of this site! Muslims have excelled at raping, murdering and brutalizing innocents since the false prophet mohammed. Try learning about the bloody history of that pedophile you follow gentle before you critize us. Remember, your people are the barbarians at the gate. Your people are the ones murdering each other, see the 9 dead kids in Afghanistan? Muslims did that. Something for you and your ilk to be proud of I'm sure. It is Muslims, in the name of allah beheading journalists and other innocents. It is Muslims in the Sudan raping, pillaging and torturing. And it was muslims who killed 3000 mothers, fathers, sons and daughters on Sept 11. So why don't you take your lies, and your bigotry and shove them up your burka-clad ass. You, gentle, are less than monkey excrement. And this world will know peace only when muslims learn to get along with others...or when they are all gone. The allah you worship is a false god...why else would the majority of muslims the world round live in poverty even though they sit on seas of oil? Why else does he ignore your calls for the destruction of the West? Muhammed was a murder, a rapist and a pedophile. I hope he's enjoying that special section of hell that the true God set aside for him. |
| Posted by: AllahHateMe 2004-08-29 3:15:15 PM |
| #12 Gentle, Let me direct you to the Muslim conquest of the Hindu. More Hindu and Budhists died than existed in all of Europe and Mideast at that time, almost all of them civilians. The peaceful Budhists were nearly wiped out. http://hinduwebsite.com/history/holocaust.htm http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/modern/moghal_atro.html Search of "skulls" or "Mughal" or "Timur". I understand it is one of the proudest points of Muslim history, but take a few minutes and read it from a Hindu perspective. Later, we can direct you to the more graphic accounts. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-08-29 3:10:17 PM |
| #11 and they can always resort to tribal rationales if they wanna kill other muslims...or women, no reasoning necessary other than a loss of "honor" which invariably wasn't there in the first place |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-08-29 3:05:25 PM |
| #10 No they are not. Sorry to disappiont you. |
| Posted by: Gentle 2004-08-29 3:04:09 PM |
| #9 Gentle: I think whinning, as hateful as it is, is much better than murdering the innocent. I'm happy with the muslims being 500 years late on that. Nah - Muslims are ahead on whining and killing the innocent. Of course, they don't think of it that way because in the Muslim mind, infidels are by definition guilty. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-08-29 3:02:28 PM |
| #8 I think whinning, as hateful as it is, is much better than murdering the innocent. I'm happy with the muslims being 500 years late on that. |
| Posted by: Gentle 2004-08-29 2:52:07 PM |
| #7 And eye rolling too, of course. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-08-29 2:50:05 PM |
| #6 In this War Gentle it's not so important as to who did the fighting, the key question is, who whined the best? I will admit that the US is 500 years behind in screeching, whinning and mewling. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-08-29 2:49:29 PM |
| #5 I refused 2 scholarships if it makes you feel better. One was to the American university. |
| Posted by: Gentle 2004-08-29 2:42:53 PM |
| #4 Zayed University must have some really low admission requirements. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2004-08-29 2:35:53 PM |
| #3 U.S. forces fought with an Iraqi police Two Iraqi policemen were badly wounded So who did all the fighting? |
| Posted by: Gentle 2004-08-29 2:26:45 PM |
| #2 And he proudly announced Kidneys as he pointed to his left temple. |
| Posted by: dorf 2004-08-29 2:22:53 PM |
| #1 This doesn't make any sense. Iraqis are armed with AK's. Americans are armed with M-4's or M-16's. There's no way the sound of one can be mistaken for the sound of the other. The Iraqis must have known that the people on the other side were Americans. But they fired anyway. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-08-29 11:15:43 AM |