Two Foreigners Badly Wounded in Attack in Iraq

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031130/ts_nm/iraq_attack_dc&cid=564&ncid=1480

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One of the victims was slumped motionless inside the car and was receiving no medical attention. U.S. troops were trying to revive the second victim.

Locals said the men were believed to be Korean contractors, but this could not be confirmed.

On Saturday, two Japanese diplomats were shot dead on the same highway when they stopped at a roadside stall.

South Korea (news - web sites) is debating whether to send combat troops to Iraq. Japan is also deciding whether to send soldiers to the country -- an issue made more complicated by Saturday's killings.

Seven Spanish intelligence agents were also killed in Iraq on Saturday in another attack on countries allied to the United States.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. NPR this morning

was talking about the Spanish reaction to seeing the lifeless bodies of their countrymen being kicked by Iraqi youth. The report said that, across the political spectrum, people felt that they needed to stay in Iraq.

What worries me is the backlash against Muslims and Arabs in particular. Even now if you talk to some people, they'll tell you that Islam is evil and encourages terrorism, and they won't listen to reason. Pretty soon, I fear, anyone even looking Arab will be detained-and then it is only a short step to detention of anyone who doesn't Sieg Heil to the Bush Administration.

[pansypoo53219]

2. shit

shades of the crusades and a dash of WW1.

[bemildred]

4. "The report said that, across the political spectrum,

people felt that they needed to stay in Iraq."

Right. That doesn't seem to be much of a political spectrum,
given the large opposition to the war in Spain before it started.

No offense intended, I just can't buy that.

[jmcgowanjm]

5. across the political spectrum, people felt thatthey needed to stay in Iraq

Jose Aznar, has been one of the Bush
administration’s staunchest allies, despite
opposition to the war by some 90 percent
of the Spanish population.

Which statement is true?
I'm going w/ the latter.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/oct2003/spai-o02.shtml

[leftchick]

3. 2 S Koreans dead and 2 Wounded

Yahoo has changed the headline and updated the story..... Sheesh, I really believe things are going to hell in a handbasket ALL OVER Iraq today.....