This is what liberation looks like?
Via hesiod there's this article from The Mirror:
IT started when a young boy hurled a sandal at a US jeep - it ended with two Iraqis dead and 16 seriously injured.
I watched in horror as American troops opened fire on a crowd of 1,000 unarmed people here yesterday.
Many, including children, were cut down by a 20-second burst of automatic gunfire during a demonstration against the killing of 13 protesters at the Al-Kaahd school on Monday.
They had been whipped into a frenzy by religious leaders. The crowd were facing down a military compound of tanks and machine-gun posts.
The youngster had apparently lobbed his shoe at the jeep - with a M2 heavy machine gun post on the back - as it drove past in a convoy of other vehicles.
A soldier operating the weapon suddenly ducked, raised it on its pivot then pressed his thumb on the trigger.
Mirror photographer Julian Andrews and I were standing about six feet from the vehicle when the first shots rang out, without warning.
We dived for cover under the compound wall as troops within the crowd opened fire. The convoy accelerated away from the scene.
Iraqis in the line of fire dived for cover, hugging the dust to escape being hit.
We could hear the bullets screaming over our heads. Explosions of sand erupted from the ground - if the rounds failed to hit a demonstrator first. Seconds later the shooting stopped and the screaming and wailing began.
One of the dead, a young man, lay face up, half his head missing, first black blood, then red spilling into the dirt.
And it goes on, if you can tolerate it, go ahead and read it.
But not to worry, according to Bush we've removed the threat to America.
Even without the discovery of any chemical or biological weapons, Mr Bush will use a speech, broadcast in prime time to the American people, to declare that the threat to the United States has been removed. After arriving on a four-seat US Navy jet and making a jolting, cable- assisted landing aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, Mr Bush will say that significant combat in Iraq is over and that it is time to focus on the reconstruction of the country.
He will stop short of claiming outright victory, partly because of pockets of fighting in Iraq and partly because such a statement carries implications under the Geneva Convention. Once war is declared over, the victorious army must release all prisoners and stop targeting specific enemy leaders.
Well, nice. I feel much better now.
Via hesiod there's this article from The Mirror:
IT started when a young boy hurled a sandal at a US jeep - it ended with two Iraqis dead and 16 seriously injured.
I watched in horror as American troops opened fire on a crowd of 1,000 unarmed people here yesterday.
Many, including children, were cut down by a 20-second burst of automatic gunfire during a demonstration against the killing of 13 protesters at the Al-Kaahd school on Monday.
They had been whipped into a frenzy by religious leaders. The crowd were facing down a military compound of tanks and machine-gun posts.
The youngster had apparently lobbed his shoe at the jeep - with a M2 heavy machine gun post on the back - as it drove past in a convoy of other vehicles.
A soldier operating the weapon suddenly ducked, raised it on its pivot then pressed his thumb on the trigger.
Mirror photographer Julian Andrews and I were standing about six feet from the vehicle when the first shots rang out, without warning.
We dived for cover under the compound wall as troops within the crowd opened fire. The convoy accelerated away from the scene.
Iraqis in the line of fire dived for cover, hugging the dust to escape being hit.
We could hear the bullets screaming over our heads. Explosions of sand erupted from the ground - if the rounds failed to hit a demonstrator first. Seconds later the shooting stopped and the screaming and wailing began.
One of the dead, a young man, lay face up, half his head missing, first black blood, then red spilling into the dirt.
And it goes on, if you can tolerate it, go ahead and read it.
But not to worry, according to Bush we've removed the threat to America.
Even without the discovery of any chemical or biological weapons, Mr Bush will use a speech, broadcast in prime time to the American people, to declare that the threat to the United States has been removed. After arriving on a four-seat US Navy jet and making a jolting, cable- assisted landing aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, Mr Bush will say that significant combat in Iraq is over and that it is time to focus on the reconstruction of the country.
He will stop short of claiming outright victory, partly because of pockets of fighting in Iraq and partly because such a statement carries implications under the Geneva Convention. Once war is declared over, the victorious army must release all prisoners and stop targeting specific enemy leaders.
Well, nice. I feel much better now.
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