[jrushing]

Where are the "REAL" human shields when you need them?

[EternalVigilance]

Cowards.

Maybe they really don't believe in Allah.

[RandallFlagg]

I wonder if we used some knock-out gas on the masses of advancing enemies/civilians, if we'd then get assailed by the left for using chemical weapons...

[longtermmemmory]

WHERE ARE THE PICTURES? This is the stuff that will shut up the fence sitters.

[Teetop]

No sh*t....

The socialist shields went running off in the night!

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

This is beyond disgusting.

[expatpat]

Cowardly baseturds. It's a pity we don't have high-power water hoses to break up the crowd, before knocking off the guys with guns.

[Route66]

This is the kind of stuff we need to get on tape so it can be played over and over again for everyone to see.

[Rome2000]

Militiamen facing besieging British troops outside Basra are forcing locals to march in front of them as they fire on soldiers, UK forces claim.

And the problem with that is...?

If thats all it takes to keep the Brits and the USA from fighting back, we ought to leave now.

I suspect that the old "hide behind the civilian" trick is about to become extremely ineffective.

Just how many Iraqi civilians are worth the life of one coalition soldier?.

I start the bidding at 25,000.

[Peacerose]

I am shocked! Brave Iraqi warriors hiding behind women and old men?! How is this possible?????

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #1

Probably at the basement of hotels in Baghdad, hobnobbing with foreign journalists.

[blam]

'IRAQ USING HUMAN SHIELDS'

Iraqi paramilitaries are using civilians as human shields, Sky News has learnt.

Militiamen facing besieging British troops outside Basra are forcing locals to march in front of them as they fire on soldiers, UK forces claim.

Up to 1,000 Iraqi irregulars are thought to be in Basra standing firm against the British troops now responsible for fighting in southern Iraq.

Emma Hurd, who is at the UK forces' base in northern Iraq, was told British troops were struggling to break the stand-off because of the tactic.

"Irregular forces are using civilians as human shields," she said.

"Men with guns advance out of the city with civilians in front of them towards the British forces.

"These civilians are being forced into this."

The men are firing on the troops and they are unable to return fire.

"The stand-off continues."

Pockets of resistance are continuing in the southern Iraqi city, which is home to some 1m people.

But British commanders insist UK forces are not about to go in and take out the paramilitaries.

Meanwhile, British forces have destroyed up to seven Iraqi tanks on the edge of Basra.

Captain Alan Massey, of the flagship aircraft carrier Ark Royal, said British light tanks, helped by small helicopter gunships and surveillance helicopters, had been battling a breakout by up to 50 Iraqi tanks.

They were trying to press southwards from the edge of the city, he said.

British forces have surrounded Basra and secured its airport.

[11th_VA]

Marines using bomblets (just heard on ABC)

[merak]

Do they have teargas over there or is it the case that only cops have teargas and soldiers aren't allowed to use it?

[dep]

and yet people can't imagine why we need people trained with nice, scoped .308s.

dep

[Porterville]

damn it, we are the American human shields to take the innocent Iraqis place?? Oh, they all ran home or got ran over by bulldozers you say???