U.S. Searches Target Iraqi Donkeys

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/11/27/251.html

By Michael Georgy
Reuters BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Since guerrillas used donkeys to outwit the high-tech defenses of the U.S. military in Iraq, the life of the beast of burden has never been so miserable.

Attackers used donkey carts to launch Katyusha rockets at the Oil Ministry and two fortified Baghdad hotels on Friday. Two other donkey carts were stopped -- one carrying more rockets, the other a donkey-bomb wired up with explosives.

Every donkey in Baghdad is suddenly under suspicion as U.S. President George W. Bush wages a global war on terror.

In a crackdown on an animal that already suffers multiple daily whippings, U.S. soldiers with automatic rifles regularly stop and search donkey carts for weapons.

Donkey owners say gas stations have been refusing to sell them fuel for resale since the rocket attacks. The animals salivate and wheeze with exhaustion as they pull their owners and heavy loads across the potholed streets of the Iraqi capital in a desperate search for kerosene.

"I have five daughters to feed. I used to make 7,000 dinars a day <$3.74>. Now I earn only 2,000 since the Americans started pressuring us after the rocket attacks," Jabar Mahdi said. "We ask the gas station managers for kerosene and they refuse. What did we do to get treated like this?"

<snip>

Interesting that Moscow Times picks up this Reuters story before the American press does. If it ever does.

[Syn_Dem]

1. Hmmm

So Bush is targeting Donkeys now eh? :tinfoilhat:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

2. The man has always had an eye for ass.

[xchrom]

3. the soldiers don't know what they are doing

there is nothing they can do to make this guerilla war go away -- except leave.
if not donkeys then motorcycles, if not motorcycles then pedestrians, if not pedestrians, then donkeys again -- it doesn't matter the guerillas have all the choices and the occupiers -- well they get to take what is dished out.