US TROOPS KILL IRAQI BOY, REBELS

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=73837®ion=6

A 12-year-old Iraqi boy and four insurgents have been killed in a clash with US troops in the northern city of Mosul.

Police also said four bystanders were wounded, as were two US soldiers in the twin clashes in Mosul city centre.

In the first clash, insurgents threw grenades and opened fire at a US Humvee and soldiers returned fire killing one of them.

A boy in a car travelling behind the Humvee was killed and four people were wounded, said Captain Bassam Saleh Abdullah.

In the second incident, insurgents attacked US troops near the Tigris, before being felled by US troops.
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And Bremer can't figure out why there are so many "insurgents."

[arcane1]

1. I'm sure Bush would say that the boy's parents...

are "better off" now that Saddam is gone :puke:

[LibertyorDeath]

2. Well here is the upshot

You can have control of the Black Gold that lies under the sands of Iraq and the power and geopolitical influence that comes from controlling the country and possibly building military bases there but there's just one or two problems

1) Every country in the World realizes exactly what you are up to.

2) You have to kill thousand and thousands of innocent civilians to achieve your goals.

Now would the US government do such a thing?

I mean would they put Power and Oil over human life?

Answer = You can count on many more dead Iraqi civilians

[rudeboy666]

3. Clarify????

"....In the first clash, insurgents threw grenades and opened fire at a US Humvee and soldiers returned fire killing one of them.

A boy in a car travelling behind the Humvee was killed and four people were wounded, said Captain Bassam Saleh Abdullah."

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. Clarify? I didn't write it.

;-) There isn't much here. I'll post additional links on the story when/if I see them.

[rudeboy666]

5. i know

The title suggests something definitive.

However, the article itself is ambiguous at best.

Badly written AND badly edited.

[DUreader]

7. Clarity: I'm under attack , I blast evrything around me

that is what I would do

[Voltaire99]

6. A prayer for the small Iraqi corpse...

Dear Small Iraqi Corpse In Paradise:

Forgive your killers, if you can. I'd like to tell you they will live with remorse for killing you. But they've forgotten you already, little dead less-than-a-statistic. Our army doesn't even count how many of you "civvies" it kills. Liberation, you see, is the blessed state of the innumerable. As angels on pins, so small corpses by the Mosul roadside: you'd need a good metaphysician to reach a total. So meaningless are you to our arts of liberation that, unlike the Nazis, infamoulsy meticulous in their evil, our army refuses math.

Uncountable unfortunates! Rest in peace, zeroes!

And forgive us.

We're counting on it.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

9. Ouch! That hurt.

I just wish it wasn't the way I read our leader's attitudes.

[Judi Lynn]

8. Whom would Jesus shoot? n/t

[Polemonium]

10. Move along, nothing to see here

Nevermind this death will recruit more extremists, more "terrorists".

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

11. No. You're right. Just another dead child.

Someone's son.

[saigon68]

12. Lots of Gold Star mothers on Both sides

And a filthy PIG and CHIMPANZEE in the White House, celebrating the turn around in the economy.

This is sad so sad.

This mother fucker could at least visit a few wounded troops at Bethesda or Walter reed, , just a few miles down the road.

[teryang]

13. We don't notice but they do

"This is normal. If someone is killed his family has to take revenge," said Abed, the truck driver. "The Americans kill people by mistake and then apologize the next day. This doesn't work here."

<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=4&u=/ap/20031124/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq>

[pinniped]

14. Just like that stupid CNN reporter said to Ali...

in that interview after he got his arms blown away.

Some stupid shit like:

"But do you know why they invaded?"

Just keep dishing this BS line out to the families of dead and maimed Iraqi's and they will understand.:eyes: