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Thread #59235 Message #942679
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
29-Apr-03 - 09:20 AM
Thread Name: BS: IRAQ: Bloody Sunday (American Style, 2003)
Subject: RE: BS: Bloody Sunday (American Style)
Iraqis killed in anti-US protest"
Iraqis killed in Falluja protest
There were angry scenes at the funerals of those killed in Falluja Thirteen Iraqis were reportedly killed when US forces opened fire on demonstrators on Monday night in the Iraqi town of Falluja.
There are conflicting reports as to what happened in the town, which lies 50 kilometres (35 miles) west of Baghdad.
US paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division started shooting after coming under fire from approximately 25 armed civilians mixed within a crowd of some 200 protesters outside a compound they were occupying in the town, a statement from US Central Command (CentCom) said.
But Iraqi witnesses said the protesters were unarmed and that the soldiers opened fire without warning on a peaceful crowd, which was protesting against the US forces' use of a school as their barracks.
"A US spokesman said soldiers started shooting after people in the crowd fired on them - but Iraqi witnesses said the protesters were unarmed.
How could anyone compare this to Bloody Sunday? After all, it happened on a Monday...
And while I waas lookihg for the link to that, here's another one I found on the BBC site: Iraq's cancer children overlooked in war
"With Iraq's hospitals in disarray, the long-term sick are being passed over in a frantic effort to treat emergency cases. For the thousands of young leukaemia victims, the outlook is bleaker than ever."