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U.S. attack said to kill scores at Iraq wedding
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Posted on 05/19/2004 10:57:56 AM PDT by hapy

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5013551/

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. helicopter fired on a wedding party Wednesday in western Iraq, killing more than 40 people, Iraqi officials said. The U.S. military said it could not confirm the report and was investigating.

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Lt. Col Ziyad al-Jbouri, deputy police chief of Ramadi, said between 42 and 45 people were killed in the attack, which took place about 2:45 a.m. in a remote desert area near the border with Syria and Jordan. He said the dead

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KEYWORDS: iraq; wedding; weddingattack
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so this is all our fault.
1 posted on 05/19/2004 10:57:58 AM PDT by hapy
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To: hapy

What did they think was going to happen when the shot their guns off?


2 posted on 05/19/2004 10:58:55 AM PDT by hapy
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To: hapy

let me guess...they were innocently shooting their AK47s in the air at 245am in celebration, pointed at our helicopters


3 posted on 05/19/2004 10:59:19 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: hapy

Guess that tradition of recklessly discharging weapons in the air has some unexpected consequences, eh?

 

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FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
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4 posted on 05/19/2004 11:00:15 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (FReep 'em all, let God sort 'em out.)
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To: BurbankKarl

you got it babe!


5 posted on 05/19/2004 11:00:35 AM PDT by hapy
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To: hapy

More likely they aere terrorists using women and children as human shields while they attacked American forces. They have proven time and again that they are willing to do it in order to scream of "war atrocities" by the U.S.


6 posted on 05/19/2004 11:00:37 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: hapy
http://www.cairoltd.com/cairo_article006.htm

Egypt and Pakistan appear to lead the world in accidental fatalities arising from celebratory gunfire at weddings. In a seven-day period in July in southern Egypt, Gamal Abdel-Gawad, the brother of the groom, was taken into custody after an errant shot killed a 22-year-old man singing at the wedding; at another wedding, a revelling guest accidentally shot and killed the bride and groom, as well as wounding the bride's mother.

Maybe firing automatic weapons at a wedding isn't such a good idea.

Ya think?

7 posted on 05/19/2004 11:02:12 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
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To: hapy

Let them speak now or forever hold their "piece"......


8 posted on 05/19/2004 11:02:16 AM PDT by tracer
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To: hapy

If someone came from another planet, they would beleive that only US and Israeli military operations have ever resulted in civilian casualties, at any time in history, ever.

Such is the media spin . . .


9 posted on 05/19/2004 11:02:16 AM PDT by cvq3842
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To: hapy

Do Iraqi weddings typically occur at 2:45 am?

Sounds like serious manipulation of the media to me.


10 posted on 05/19/2004 11:02:44 AM PDT by BamaCharm
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To: BurbankKarl
I would suggest in the Future perhaps gunfire in the air may be inappropriate behavior at WEDDINGS......
11 posted on 05/19/2004 11:04:56 AM PDT by JackHawk
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To: BamaCharm
Sounds like serious manipulation of the media to me.

And this is supposed to be a surprise?

12 posted on 05/19/2004 11:05:28 AM PDT by Dane
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Maybe firing automatic weapons at a wedding isn't such a good idea.

Maybe they should just switch singing to "The Bride Cuts the Cake."

13 posted on 05/19/2004 11:06:03 AM PDT by Maceman (Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
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To: BamaCharm

Manipulation of the media or BY the media?


14 posted on 05/19/2004 11:06:42 AM PDT by ccanada
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To: hapy

....geeze.....only 45?


15 posted on 05/19/2004 11:08:36 AM PDT by sfvgt ("if you're gonna shoot, shoot, don't talk"(Tuco: the good, the bad, and the ugly))
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To: hapy

Here is a photo of some of the soft, cuddly puppies the US Stormtroopers have been shooting when they can't find innocent Iraqi civilians to kill.

Does this make the Left's picture complete? What scumbags the left is...

16 posted on 05/19/2004 11:10:12 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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To: hapy

No newlyweds would be at a wedding at 2:45 am. They would be somewhere horizontal taking care of business.


17 posted on 05/19/2004 11:10:35 AM PDT by dc-zoo
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To: dc-zoo

Yeah, creating new little terrorists!


18 posted on 05/19/2004 11:11:36 AM PDT by ccanada
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To: hapy

Was it this wedding?

19 posted on 05/19/2004 11:14:46 AM PDT by Restore
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To: hapy

Are these the same islamics that were so quiet during the murder of American Nick Berg but so vocal for the deaths of the non-comms of Abu Ghraib?


20 posted on 05/19/2004 11:15:04 AM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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