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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What did they think was going to happen when the shot their guns off?
let me guess...they were innocently shooting their AK47s in the air at 245am in celebration, pointed at our helicopters
Guess that tradition of recklessly discharging weapons in the air has some unexpected consequences, eh?
Owl_Eagle
" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"
you got it babe!
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.
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?
Let them speak now or forever hold their "piece"......
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 . . .
Do Iraqi weddings typically occur at 2:45 am?
Sounds like serious manipulation of the media to me.
And this is supposed to be a surprise?
Maybe they should just switch singing to "The Bride Cuts the Cake."
Manipulation of the media or BY the media?
....geeze.....only 45?
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...
No newlyweds would be at a wedding at 2:45 am. They would be somewhere horizontal taking care of business.
Yeah, creating new little terrorists!
Was it this wedding?
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?
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