Re: U.S. Troops Kill 54 People In Iraq Bloodbath

"miss calm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> At last the US wimps are getting tough with the cockroaches!
> 
> You are an evil blood-thirsty racist.

Flora

> "Abu-Alwafa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > U.S. Troops Kill 54 People In Iraq Bloodbath
> >
> > BAGHDAD, December 1 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - The U.S. army
> > confirmed Monday, December 1, that U.S. soldiers killed 54 people on
>  Sunday,
> > November 30, in the Iraqi town of Samarra as witnesses asserting that the
> > bloodbath had claimed only eight lives of innocent people.
> >
> > "The death toll is now 54 dead," said a spokesman for the 4th Infantry
> > Division which patrols restive north-central Iraq, without specifying
> > whether they were resistance fighters or civilians and without
>  volunteering
> > his name.
> >
> > Earlier, Lieutenant Colonel Bill MacDonald put at 46 the number of the
>  dead
> > and 18 the injured, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
> >
> > But several witnesses in the Iraqi town asserted to Al-Jazeera
>  correspondent
> > that the dead were not "attackers but innocent people, including Iranians
> > who were en route to visit the mausoleum of a Shiite authority", adding
>  that
> > some of them were killed during their prayers.
> >
> > They further said that the number of the dead has been "greatly
>  exaggerated"
> > by the U.S. spokesman, noting that it did not go beyond "eight killed and
>  55
> > injured".
> >
> > Furthermore, workers at a nearby state-owned pharmaceutical plant
>  contested
> > the American version saying at least two colleagues were killed and many
> > wounded as they walked out of the factory gates at the end of their shift
> > and a U.S. tank started firing in all directions, according to AFP.
> >
> > An AFP correspondent saw blood spattered on the ground and bullet holes in
>  a
> > sentry box near the factory gates.
> >
> > As staff at the State Enterprise for the Manufacture of Drugs and Medical
> > Equipment finished their shift, a second tank arrived and opened up with
> > machine guns, Al-Jazeera quoted Reuters news agency as having said.
> >
> > 'Largest Attack'
> >
> > Earlier in the day, the U.S. spokesman said that a U.S. military convoy
>  came
> > under multiple ambush attempts, describing the attacks as the "largest" on
> > the division in Iraq to date.
> >
> > "The attackers fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at
>  the
> > convoy from rooftops of buildings and from the alleyways," MacDonald said,
> > adding that mortars and improvised bombs also were used against the U.S.
> > soldiers.
> >
> > "One attack occurred on the east side of the city and one in the west.
> > Soldiers fought the attackers in numerous locations in both ambushes.
> >
> > "At each location, soldiers from the 1st Battalion 66th Armor and military
> > police returned fire with small arms, 120 millimeter tank rounds and 25
> > millimeter canon fired from Bradley vehicles," the spokesman said,
>  pointing
> > out that five U.S. soldiers and a civilian were wounded in the fighting.
> >
> > He continued: "The attackers attempted to block one of the convoys' way
>  with
> > a makeshift barricade. The barricade was immediately breached," he said.
> >
> > In a third attack, he added, another U.S. military convoy came under small
> > arms fire attack from four men traveling in a car.
> >
> > "We're sending a clear message that anyone who attempts to attack our
> > convoys will pay the price," said MacDonald, speaking to journalists at
>  the
> > division's headquarters in Tikrit.
> >
> > The events capped the worst weekend in seven months of occupation which
>  saw
> > the deaths of seven Spaniards, two Koreans, two Japanese, two U.S.
>  soldiers
> > and a Colombian.
> >
> > Ninety-nine occupation troops were said to have died in Iraq during
> > November, according to a BBC count. They included 82 U.S. troops, and 17
> > Italian soldiers.
> >
> > http://islamonline.net/
> >
> >