Re: U.S. Forces Kill 46 Iraqis Trying to Ambush Them

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 08:47:00 GMT, "Stop The War"
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>"Captain Compassion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> U.S. Forces Kill 46 Iraqis Trying to Ambush Them
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>
>     This smelling worse and worse with each succeeding hour
>folks.  At first we were told 46 Iraqi insurgents were
>killed.  Now this:
>
>     "AT least eight Iraqi civilians were killed and more than 60
>     wounded by US fire in bloody clashes with insurgents in the
>     Iraqi town of Samarra, hospital director Abed Tawfiq has said.
>     US commanders previously said they killed 46 Iraqi insurgents
>     in the clashes."
>     <http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8032346%255E1702,00.html>
>
>Some of the Iraqi dead were factory workers ending their
>shift at a pharmaceutical plant.
>
>     "Workers at a nearby state-owned pharmaceutical plant questioned the US
>     response.
>     They said 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 US tank
>     opened fire in all directions.
>     An AFP correspondent saw blood spattered on the ground and bullet holes in a
>     sentry box to the left of the white factory gates."
>     (Agence France-Presse)
>     <http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8028760%255E1702,00.html>
>
>At least one woman and one child mixed in with the dead.
>It could be a classic case of a war time screw up in
>an urban setting were a few insurgents start trouble and
>our troops panicked.

>     Obviously the Iraqi hospital numbers don't tally with
>the U.S. military's numbers.
>
In kill counts Women and children are only counted as half a kill. :)




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