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

"Stop The War" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "Captain Compassion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > U.S. Forces Kill 46 Iraqis Trying to Ambush Them
> 
> 
>      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.

Kill them all and let Allah sort them out.  :-)