Four 'foreign nationals' gunned down in Iraq (Not Pretty)

Irish Examiner (Via Matt Drudge) ^

[Happy2BMe]

Four 'foreign nationals' gunned down in Iraq
31/03/2004 - 10:18:38 AM

At least four people, thought to be foreign nationals, were killed when their vehicles came under fire in the Iraqi town of Fallujah today.

Eye witnesses said angry crowds dragged the bodies through the streets, dismembered them and hanged some of the mutilated corpses.

The attack happened at about the same time as a bomb exploded under a US military in the Fallujah region, killing five soldiers.

It was not known whether the two incidents were related.

The gunmen attacked the civilians as they drove by in two civilian 4x4 cars in Fallujah.

The occupants of the cars were killed and their vehicles were set on fire.

Footage from Associated Press Television News showed a charred body of one of the dead men, and the vehicles in flames nearby. Some of the men were wearing flak jackets, said Safa Mohammedi, a resident.

Another resident, Abdul Aziz Mohammed, said angry crowds dragged the bodies through the streets, dismembered them and hanged some of the mutilated corpses.

“The people of Fallujah hanged some of the bodies on the old bridge like slaughtered sheep,” Mohammed said. “I saw it myself.”

One resident displayed what appeared to be dog-type tags taken from one body. Residents also said there were weapons in the targeted cars.

The explosive device that killed the American soldiers blew up when their vehicle ran over it in the Fallujah area, US Army Colonel Jill Morgenthaler said in Baghdad.

[Happy2BMe]

Islam written all over it.

[pdbeaches]

Animals!!!!

[samtheman]

Religion of Peace.

[Happy2BMe]

What our troops in Iraq are up against ping.

[grobdriver]

Islam written all over it.

Ah, yes. The religion of Peace.

What a great place to test a tactical nuke.

[boxerblues]

I really have to stop myself from asking why this town is still in existence.

[Crazieman]

I think we can be justified in dumping a half dozen MOABs on Fallujah without much reprisals. I bet most Iraqis know its already too much of a hotbed.

[bwteim]

Don't stop asking.

[boxerblues]

One would be enough. Just announce a pro saddum rally get them huddle all in one spot and kaboom.

[dennisw]

Islam written all over it..........

F'ing psycho killers

[2banana]

Bring in a Battalion of Kurds for a month. Let them take "control" of the area and give some pay pack to the Saddam supporters...

[boxerblues]

If it was this time last year, I wouldnt even hesitate in dropping something on the town, but now I really have reservations.

[Happy2BMe]

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - A crowd of cheering Iraqis dragged charred and mutilated bodies through the streets of the town of Falluja Wednesday after an ambush on two vehicles that witnesses said killed at least three foreigners.

In a separate attack one year after the U.S.-led war on Iraq that overthrew Saddam Hussein, five American soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb was detonated beside their convoy west of Baghdad, the U.S. army said.

The Falluja violence began when two four-wheel-drive vehicles were attacked by guerrillas on a main road in the town, 32 miles west of Baghdad. A crowd then set the vehicles ablaze and hurled stones into the burning wreckage.

Television pictures showed one incinerated body being kicked and stamped on by a member of the jubilant crowd, while others dragged a blackened body down the road by its feet.

The footage showed at least three people lying dead, while some witnesses said that four were killed. It was not clear how many people were in the vehicles.

As one body lay burning on the ground, an Iraqi came and doused it with petrol, sending flames soaring. At least two bodies were tied to cars and pulled through the streets, witnesses said.

"This is the fate of all Americans who come to Falluja," said Mohammad Nafik, one of the crowd surrounding the bodies.

Some body parts were pulled off and left hanging from a pole, while two incinerated bodies were later strung from a bridge over the road and left dangling there.

It was unclear who was traveling in the vehicles, both four-wheel drives of the type used by foreign contractors, journalists, civilian members of the U.S.-led coalition and some military personnel. Witnesses said they saw anywhere between four and eight people in the cars before they were attacked.

Some of the victims were wearing civilian clothes, flak jackets and were armed, witnesses said, but that was not clear from the television footage. One of those killed had fair hair and was wearing khaki trousers and a white T-shirt.

As the victims lay burning, a crowd of around 150 men chanted "Long live Islam" and "Allahu Akbar" ("God is Greatest") while flashing victory signs.   

[Jeff Head]

IMHO, in Fallujah and elsewhere in the Sunni triangle where similar sentiments remain (BTW, this is the vast minority of Iraqis IMHO), it is time for martial law, rounding up of any suspected belligerents, internment and a complete pacification of those areas...it is past due.

[Gil4]

Another resident, Abdul Aziz Mohammed, said angry crowds dragged the bodies through the streets

I bet he just lowered his life expectancy by talking to the western media, although he might be hard to find because 1 in 5 Iraqis is named Abdul Aziz Mohammed.

[rageaholic]

angry allah is pleased

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

As the victims lay burning, a crowd of around 150 men chanted "Long live Islam" and "Allahu Akbar" ("God is Greatest") while flashing victory signs.

I have no interest in such a "god". It is time.

[dennisw]

• Children point to a body part, tied to a brick and hanging from a telephone cable, after an attack in the restive town of Falluja March 31, 2004. A crowd of cheering Iraqis dragged charred and mutilated bodies through the streets of Falluja on Wednesday after an attack on two vehicles that witnesses said killed at least three foreigners. (Ali Jasim/Reuters)
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• ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUALS COVERAGE OF SCENES OF DEATH AND INJURY Children point to a body part, tied to a brick and hanging from a telephone cable, after an attack in the restive town of Falluja March 31, 2004. A crowd of cheering Iraqis dragged charred and mutilated bodies through the streets of Falluja on Wednesday after an attack on two vehicles that witnesses said killed at least three foreigners. REUTERS/Ali Jasim
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• An Iraqi watches a vehicle burn after an attack in the restive town of Falluja, March 31, 2004. A crowd of cheering Iraqis dragged charred and mutilated bodies through the streets of Falluja on Wednesday after an attack on two vehicles that witnesses said killed at least three foreigners. The crowd set the two four-wheel-drive vehicles ablaze after the attack and threw stones into the burning wreckage. (Salman Amer/Reuters)
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• ATTENTION EDITORS - VISUALS COVERAGE OF SCENES OF DEATH AND INJURY Iraqis drag the body of a man after an attack in the restive town of Falluja March 31, 2004. Insurgents attacked two cars and set them on fire, burning several passengers and dragging one body outside, dancing around it and making the victory sign, witnesses said. REUTERS/Reuters Video News
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• An Iraqi man looks at a sport utility vehicle on fire after an attack in the restive town of Falluja March 31, 2004. Insurgents attacked two cars and set them on fire, burning several passengers and dragging one body outside, dancing around it and making the victory sign, witnesses said. REUTERS/Mohammed Khodor
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• Iraqis cheers as a vehicle burns after an attack in the restive town of Falluja March 31, 2004. Insurgents attacked two cars and set them on fire, burning several passengers and dragging one body outside, dancing around it and making the victory sign, witnesses said. REUTERS/Mohammed Khodor
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• An Iraqi man looks at a sport utility vehicle on fire after an attack in the restive town of Falluja March 31, 2004. Insurgents attacked two cars and set them on fire, burning several passengers and dragging one body outside, dancing around it and making the victory sign, witnesses said. REUTERS/Salman Amer
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[Landru]

Truly sub-animals.

Waste the whole damned lot of 'em.

...now.

[ThermoNuclearWarrior]

The people who did this too the bodies should be killed or detained even if they weren't involved in the initial attack. What good can come from scum like this? They aren't going to add anything positive to Iraq. This isn't the same as protesting and it shouldn't be tolerated in my opinion.

Why does it always take so long for American soldiers to get to these attacks? It seems like it takes a long time for our forces to get to the scene. Aren't their Iraqi police in this area who could respond? There are always reporters so it seems that U.S. or Coalition soldiers could get there.

[Happy2BMe]

An Iraqi watches a vehicle burn after an attack in the restive town of Falluja, March 31, 2004. A crowd of cheering Iraqis dragged charred and mutilated bodies through the streets of Falluja on Wednesday after an attack on two vehicles that witnesses said killed at least three foreigners. The crowd set the two four-wheel-drive vehicles ablaze after the attack and threw stones into the burning wreckage. Photo by Salman Amer/Reuters

Wed Mar 31, 6:31 AM ET
Iraqis mutilate the burnt body of a dead man believed to be a US citizen who was inside a car attacked in Fallujah. At least two people believed to be Americans were killed when gunmen opened fire on two four-wheel-drive vehicles in Fallujah, police said.(AFP/Karim Sahib)

[dennisw]

5 US troops also died today from a roadside bomb under their vehicle.

[BayouCoyote]

Animals!!!!

Nope, they are well below what any sane person would consider an animal to be. They remind me of vermin and they need to be exterminated.

[WV Mountain Mama]

Or, we could get them rounded up, and in honor of their favorite dictator, we could bring back the plastic shredder. These "people" will do everything they can to disrupt the new Iraq. We could turn the Sunni triangle into something like the Bermuda triangle. No one knows what happens to people when they go in, but they don't come back out.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

I really have to stop myself from asking why this town is still in existence.

Because your government cares nothing about its people. When are all of you going to wake up? You think the Democrats care about you? Do you think the Republicans care about you? Do you think any political party cares about you? LOL. Sheeple. Not one individual in leadership in this nation has the fortitude to make and effect a decision on how to get some of this stopped. Not one.

[bwteim]

Not me - this time last year, no - this time now, yes. Give them a few hours notice.

[dennisw]

http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=burnt+body+&c=news_photos&ei=UTF-8

[battousai]

The more I see things like this, the more I am convinced that what Islam calls Allah is not our God, but satan!

[Triple Word Score]

We're wanting to move out and let them govern themselves.

STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID

And Drudge has that picture up of a grinning set of President Bushes under that headline, and a Kerry concerned about gas prices....don't think he's not perfectly aware of what the pictures say. It's not an accident that a scowling, unflattering picture of Condi has dominated the news about the Bush administration for the past week, either. The media wants us to think that the President is not focused on what is happening to our troops.

I'm waiting for a decisive response to this, and I hope it will be coming. That town is declaring itself a war zone, so let's give them what they're asking.

[laconic]

If only we'd turned this over to the UN or NATO, none of this would have happened, of course, given the great respect such an educated mob has for UN and NATO.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Maybe we should find those WMDs and use them on these guys.

"Television pictures showed one incinerated body being kicked and stamped on by a member of the jubilant crowd"

We got pictures of them? Lets get them and take them for a ride in the desert one by one. Some times I think Black Jack Pershings method of handling these fanatics was correct.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

None of you have the force of will to do anything. What are you going to do? Post your anger here? Who cares? Who reads this? You will not say a word to any Muslim who lives in the U.S. because you are afraid. You will not demand that Muslims be deported because you are afraid. You will not demand that your government do something because you are AFRAID. You WILL DO NOTHING and you know it. How many pictures must you be shown of your own people being burned, mutilated and their corpses dishonored? You wouldn't do anything if were your women and children being treated that way. You are all afraid.

[verity]

Your solution?

[olde north church]

Ya' know, they incinerated 50,000 Dresden residents in WW2 without batting an eye, KNOWING what it would do to the enemy resistance.
They want to see a "Great Satan", I say show them the Fires of Hell.
Better still, enact the Law of the Ban, slaughter all the people within it's walls, the animals, leave all spoils and let that be the sacrifice to God.
The application of extreme pressure on a set of balls can accomplish more than gaining a thousand sets of hearts and minds. ONC

[The Mayor]

It is time for this MOAB to be dropped on the triangle!

[dennisw]

	An Iraqi hits a burning car with a shovel as another kicks it in Fallujah. Gunmen opened fire on two vehicles before setting the vehicles ablaze. AFP JOURNAL INTERNET - 31/03/2004 12:47:05
	Iraqis dance on a wrecked car attacked 31 March 2004 in the flashpoint town of Fallujah. At least seven people were killed in attacks in western Iraq. AFP JOURNAL INTERNET - 31/03/2004 12:47:05
	Iraqis mutilate the burnt body of a dead man believed to be a US citizen who was inside a car attacked in the flashpoint town of Fallujah. At least two people believed to be Americans were killed when gunmen opened fire on two vehicles in Fallujah. AFP JOURNAL INTERNET - 31/03/2004 12:47:05
	Iraqis mutilate the burnt body of a man -- believed to be a US citizen -- who was inside a car that was attacked in Fallujah. At least two people believed to be Americans were killed when gunmen opened fire on two vehicles in Fallujah. AFP JOURNAL INTERNET - 31/03/2004 12:47:05
	An Iraqi man looks at a car on fire after an attack in the restive town of Falluja on March 31, 2004. Insurgents attacked two cars and set them on fire, burning several passengers and dragging one body outside, dancing around it and making the victory sign, witnesses said. REUTERS/Salman Amer REUTERS - 31/03/2004 12:25:51
	Iraqis mutilate a burnt body of a dead man believed to be a US citizen who was inside a car attacked in Fallujah. Furious Iraqis hacked up the charred bodies of two people, believed to be foreign civilians, and hung the remains from a bridge after their car was ambushed, saying this rebellious Iraqi town would be the "cemetery" of US-led occupation forces. AFP JOURNAL INTERNET - 31/03/2004 12:19:55
	An Iraqi hits with a shovel as another kicks a burning car attacked in Fallujah. Gunmen opened fire on two four-wheel-drive cars, killing at least some of the occupants and setting the vehicles ablaze. AFP JOURNAL INTERNET - 31/03/2004 11:33:00
	A vehicle burns in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Wednesday March 31, 2004. Gunmen in Fallujah attacked two civilian cars that residents said were carrying up to eight foreign nationals. The occupants of the cars were killed and their vehicles were set on fire. (AP Photo/Abdel Kader Saadi) ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS - 31/03/2004 10:12:05
	Flames engulf the remains of a person killed in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Wednesday March 31, 2004. Gunmen in Fallujah attacked two civilian cars that residents said were carrying up to eight foreign nationals. The occupants of the cars were killed and their vehicles were set on fire. (AP Photo/Abdel Kader Saadi) ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS - 31/03/2004 10:06:36
	An Iraqi youth cheers in front of a burning vehicle in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Wednesday March 31, 2004. Gunmen in Fallujah attacked two civilian cars that residents said were carrying up to eight foreign nationals. The occupants of the cars were killed and their vehicles were set on fire. (AP Photo/Abdel Kader Saadi) ASSOCIATED

[WV Mountain Mama]

Prayers for the victims and their families. I don't know how a family could handle knowing what their husbands went through both when they died and what happened to them afterward.

[ElisabethInCincy]

This is beyond Barbaric its DEMONIC... I feel sick and so grieved.. Typical Islam !!!!!!!!!!! :(

[dennisw]

I let off some steam same as you just did. I hope the photos are seen widely showing the depths some Islamics will plunge too. I hope they anger Americans and push them from wimp to warrior mentality

[pdbeaches]

True.... It's the first thing that came to mind after reading such a disturbing article.

[Pharmboy]

GREETINGS CITIZENS OF FALLUJAH:

ENJOY YOUR BARBARITY WHILE YOU CAN. A TERRIBLE VENGEANCE WILL SOON BE VISITED UPON YOU.

Sincerely,
Uncle Sam

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

We got pictures of them? Lets get them and take them for a ride in the desert one by one. Some times I think Black Jack Pershings method of handling these fanatics was correct.

All you are going to do is nothing. They know it. You know it. You can talk "big" all that you want to. They'll just say: "I stick my shovel in you, you coward Zionist, American pig!!!" (See picture above)

[johnb838]

Though the partisan media won't talk about it, we now have the 1st(?) Marines in there kicking the hornets nest. They've started house-to-house searches and I expect that the jihadis aren't liking it too much. I also wonder who the "civilians" were as the reports of them seem to display that very careful parsing the media uses when they're trying to hide something. Could those SUVs have been white with the letters U.N. on the side? I read the other day that white SUVs are the most hated vehicles in Iraq.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

I hope they anger Americans and push them from wimp to warrior mentality.

In your dreams.

[Pharmboy]

It's nice that we have the perps' pictures. I hope Delta Force gets 8x10 glossies.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Your solution?

Oh, I've got solutions. I promise I could get this stopped. However, I need to be in a position of authority in order to begin effecting a plan. Would you like to join my organization? If so, freepmail me.

[Dog]

This is the fate of all Americans who come to Falluja," said Mohammad Nafik, one of the crowd surrounding the bodies.

And when that knock on the door takes place Mohammad Nafik....you are going to die.

[dorben]

Speak for yourself sport . I'll presume you have the common sense to not ask what we are doing about it in an open forum .

[RightOnline]

I don't think the U.S. Marines are going to sit idly by and let this s**t go unpunished.

There's going to be hell to pay............just watch.

[dennisw]

Prayers for the victims and their families. I don't know how a family could handle knowing what their husbands went through both when they died and what happened to them afterward.

That's the whole idea of such barbaric terrorism. To send shivers down the spines of their poor families and others who are thinking of serving in Iraq. In our military or in an aid mission.

Terrorism is designed to scare people into going your way. Doing what you want .... in this case not coming to Iraq. In the case of Spain, voting socialist.

Same reason the Balkan and Chechnya Muslims filmed their snuff videos of grisly beheadings and tortures. To scare the other guy's military away or at minimum to take only safe ineffective actions, to hole up in his garrison a la the UN blue helmet idiots.