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| 26 cops wounded in clashes with protestors in Nassiriya |
| 2010-06-22 |
| THI-QAR / Aswat al-Iraq: A total of 26 policemen have been wounded during clashes with angry men who protested the deterioration of electricity in the city of Nassiriya, head of the security committee of the Thi-Qar council said on Monday. “Fierce clashes flared up on Monday (June 21) between police forces and protestors, who demonstrated against the deterioration of electricity in Nassiriya, during which 26 cops were wounded,' Sajad al-Asadi told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “All casualties were reported among cops, including a colonel, and no casualties among protestors,' he added. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #4 what does telling Afghans from Arabs have to do with this story? And you don't have to be an expert on Iraq to know how this story is gonna end. |
| Posted by: Attention on Deck 2010-06-22 23:26 |
| #3 Nassiriya is about 150km northwest of Basra. The latter city, if anyone bothered to remember, had a similar riot on Saturday. I suspected then that it was Shiite elements who weren't happy with the Basra Provincial Council's "failure" in upholding sharia law. That's likely a similar case here. Hey, it's Iraq. You didn't think they were actually going to become civilized? Oh goody - an Iraq expert who also can't tell Afghans from Arabs. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2010-06-22 21:53 |
| #2 Hey, it's Iraq. You didn't think they were actually going to become civilized? It's just a countdown until the next Saddam takes over. |
| Posted by: Attention on Deck 2010-06-22 13:49 |
| #1 Not good. Coppers need a better training. Regardless whether the complaint was legitimate or not. One does not beat a cop for an outage. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2010-06-22 00:16 |