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| 10 Iraqis Pulled From Bus, Gunned Down |
| 2006-06-15 |
| Gunmen shot and killed 10 Shiites on Thursday after pulling them off a bus in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, police said. The 10 men, nine workers at the city's industrial area and the driver, were aged from 20 to 45 and were heading back to their homes, a police officer said on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to media. Baqouba is located 35 miles northeast of Baghdad and is near the site where an airstrike last week killed al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The gunmen were in two black Opel sedans and the workers included three brothers and six other relatives except for the driver. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #4 I disagree that a pistol is useless: "Hours later, they decided to raid a third house based on suspicious behavior. The first Marine to enter spotted four men inside, one holding an AK-47. The Marine's M-16 jammed. He pulled out a 9mm pistol and killed all four." This quote is from the link today at rantburg about the marines at Haditha. |
| Posted by: Gromosh Elminegum5705 2006-06-15 15:18 |
| #3 Thus DAR illustrates the fallacy of the pistol as weapon. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-06-15 14:14 |
| #2 When you have multiple attackers with automatic AK47s, you stand little chance of getting off even one shot with a pistol. Even if any of these victims were armed, I doubt they'd want to provoke an attack by pulling a pistol but rather cling to the hope that the gunmen were only going to threaten them and let them go. |
| Posted by: Dar 2006-06-15 12:04 |
| #1 Families in Iraq are allowed a gun. Why not pistols with concealed arms permits? A LOT of these civilian massacres could be stopped cold by just one man with a pistol. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-06-15 11:21 |