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2003-12-23 Iraq

"We ainât got game!": Iraqi students riot over GIs playing basketball

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Posted by Jennie Taliaferro 2003-12-23 7:14:14 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Jennie--What's the URL to the story?

Posted by Dar 2003-12-23 9:31:22 AM|| 2003-12-23 9:31:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I fixed it.

Putting the anchor ("<a href") in the source line breaks things. The program adds in a second one.

Posted by Fred 2003-12-23 10:16:30 AM|| 2003-12-23 10:16:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Fred--The link now points to a Yahoo news article about Arafat. I looked but couldn't find the above article there.

Posted by Dar 2003-12-23 10:39:11 AM|| 2003-12-23 10:39:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 There are and always will be those Arabs that are offended that the sun rises but once over their land. F%$K EM! Some GI's are playing Basketball so they destroy their classrooms? Next they will complain how unsafe the campus is. Hooligans! Round em up and send them to the gulag.

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-12-23 10:40:22 AM|| 2003-12-23 10:40:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Are there ice rinks in Iraq? Take these "students" and one by one, strap them to a goal net and let any GIs that know how to play hockey take one good shot...

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-12-23 10:44:02 AM|| 2003-12-23 10:44:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Found the link at Hindustan Times -- sounds much like the situation with the Egyptial foreign minister in Jerusalem yesterday. I'm angered by these students' presence in the university -- do we get to kick them out now?

Posted by snellenr 2003-12-23 10:54:57 AM|| 2003-12-23 10:54:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Dar#3: I couldn't find it in Yahoo news, either, but found it through them. Not to put past they'd pulled the story and re-used the URL. 'sok, the one you found was approximately as credible. And relevant.

Posted by Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-23 11:03:58 AM|| 2003-12-23 11:03:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Glenn--Thanks, that worked! I thought there'd be more, but this is pretty much the article in entirety here.

Posted by Dar 2003-12-23 11:46:19 AM|| 2003-12-23 11:46:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Here it is guys from the Hindustan Times:
Iraqi students riot over US soldiers' presence on campus
(Poor Fred. He thought he was fixing the link but he posted yesterday's of mine. Sorry, everyone!)

Posted by Jennie Taliaferro 2003-12-23 12:40:39 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2003-12-23 12:40:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 There must be a mistake. Shouldn't this have been an American university?

Posted by Highlander 2003-12-23 4:24:58 PM|| 2003-12-23 4:24:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Shouldn't this have been an American university?
Michigan State Univ isn't in session right now -- I was sorry to see that Googling "basketball riot iraq" actually brought up more stories about my old alma mater than Iraq. Sigh...

Posted by snellenr 2003-12-23 5:36:33 PM|| 2003-12-23 5:36:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Take these "students" and one by one, strap them to a goal net and let any GIs that know how to play hockey take one good shot...

Another reason to blame Chretien for not sending any Canadian troops....

Posted by Pappy 2003-12-23 9:15:47 PM|| 2003-12-23 9:15:47 PM|| Front Page Top

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