Re: Is that they call discriminate fire? Yes, actually...

"Matthew G. Saroff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Tarver Engineering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >"Matthew G. Saroff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >> "No Spam!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >> >Michael Petukhov wrote:
> >> >> SAMARRA, Iraq (AFP) - Scenes of devastation dotted the Iraqi town of
> >> >> Samarra after fierce clashes between US forces and insurgents in
which
> >> >> senior police and hospital officials said at least eight civilians
> >> >> were killed and dozens wounded
> >> >
> >> >Ummm, let's see. Perhaps a bit of perspective is in order here.
> >> >
> >> >...start of sarcasm...
> >> >There was a small unit action involving over 50 enemy (I won't say
> >> >'Iraqis' because they may or may not have been) who deliberately set
up
> >> >an ambush of US forces in the middle of a town. I'm sure they set it
up
> >> >in town to avoid putting any Iraqi civilians at risk.
> >>
> >> Actually, it appears now to be a run of the mill bank
> >> heist, at least according to the beeb.
> >
> >The uniforms make that seem odd, this was something more.
>
> Only there are no bodies with uniforms found, and only 8
> dead found.
>
> It's beginning to sound like some junior officer decided
> on a Viet Nam type body count.

It was Reuters that decided to publish a body count.

> Of more significance is that the Iraqi police were the
> likely source of the leak that this was a "money train".


Sunni are already bombing the Kurdish Iraqi police in the Sunni Triangle.  I
don't think they are friends.