Australian guard, 34, killed... sniper opens fire at the Australian Embassy in Baghdad

Daily Mail (Australia/UK) ^ | 13th May 2016 | Freya Noble

[naturalman1975]

One person has been killed and another injured during a shooting near the Australian Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq on Wednesday night.

The government confirmed the man who died was a 34-year-old Australian who was working as a private security contractor for Unity Resources Group at the embassy.

'The Government extends its condolences to the family of the Australian man over this tragic incident,' the Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop said in a statement on Friday.

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The man killed was a former Australian special forces soldier, according to Fairfax Media reported

[naturalman1975]

If there's a trip one way, he said,
Into battle grim for me,
Don't let them say when I am dead:
He died to save democracy;
Nor let them say: He fought to free
Enslaved nations, white or brown;
Just print these simple words for me:

He would not let his cobbers down.

[gaijin]

Libyan Embassy in London, UK. Policewoman shot by Libyan EMBASSY sniper:

[StCloudMoose]

Hussein Obama losing the war we all ready won

[Gunslingr3]

Hussein Obama losing the war we all ready won

What did you delude yourself into thinking we 'won' by wasting hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of American lives trying to 'nation build' in Iraq?

[Gene Eric]

Exactly.

[Lonely Bull]

The headline has changed. Now it’s

“Australian security contractor, 34, killed at embassy in Baghdad was ‘shot dead by fellow guard at accommodation block during heavy drinking session’”

[StCloudMoose]

if you actually read the news in the past; you must be new at reading the news, Hussein obama and Joe Biden declared the war over in Iraq and pulled our troops out. you need to update your news

[Gunslingr3]

You didn’t address my question, what do you think our hundreds of billions of dollars spent and thousands of lives lost had ‘won’?
Are you one of the folks that think Enlightenment is spread with bombs and bullets?

[Gunslingr3]

You didn’t address my question, what do you think our hundreds of billions of dollars spent and thousands of lives lost had ‘won’?
Are you one of the folks that think Enlightenment is spread with bombs and bullets?

[StCloudMoose]

I think that you are very narrow minded, you lack any interest in complaining about the longest war in United States history that is currently still going on and the soldiers we are losing in that war.

[StCloudMoose]

you may need some help or need to stop reposting your half misguided question

[Bellflower]

So very, very sad.

[Gunslingr3]

You posted that we had 'won' something in Iraq.

I just asked what. It's strange you can't think of a single answer to a question we've paid hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of American lives for.

How do you feel about sending Americans sworn to defend the Constitution of the United States around the world to prop up monarchies? TWENTY-FIVE years we've been bombing for the Saudi and Kuwaiti tyrants - what have we 'won'?

Dropping bombs in more countries than you can name, more times than you can count, for longer than more than half the population in that region has been alive. What has it actually accomplished except accrue the U.S. bitter enemies and squander our resources?

[StCloudMoose]

please go find a chat room for your joys AssHAT

[Gunslingr3]

Do you lack an actual answer?
Can you literally not think of what was ‘won’ by the U.S. Waging war in the Middle East for over twenty five years?

It’s odd how unable anyone is to articulate the goal of continuing these policies of persistent, deadly intervention in foreign countries.
I can imagine patriotic people in all countries resisting foreign interference, irrespective of the invaders offerings. That’s what the big govt abroad types don’t get. From Vietnam to Yemen, they don’t accept the same disgust that Main Street has with Washington DC is a thousand times worse when Washington DC is bombing hospitals in your neighborhood.

War is a racket.
The only way to win is to not play the game.

[Gunslingr3]

Do you lack an actual answer?
Can you literally not think of what was ‘won’ by the U.S. Waging war in the Middle East for over twenty five years?

It’s odd how unable anyone is to articulate the goal of continuing these policies of persistent, deadly intervention in foreign countries.
I can imagine patriotic people in all countries resisting foreign interference, irrespective of the invaders offerings. That’s what the big govt abroad types don’t get. From Vietnam to Yemen, they don’t accept the same disgust that Main Street has with Washington DC is a thousand times worse when Washington DC is bombing hospitals in your neighborhood.

War is a racket.
The only way to win is to not play the game.

[StCloudMoose]

get some help and leave me the F alone

[StCloudMoose]

posted twice, you need some mental help

[Gunslingr3]

The old Safari browser on my iPad 2 double posts.
I’m not sure why you actually typed two more responses that again duck the question: What do you think we ‘won’ in Iraq?
Do you genuinely lack an answer? I can think a few to help you:
We won a few thousands more headstones.
We won a few thousand folded flags sitting on mantle pieces.
We won a couple hundred billion dollars more in debt that you, me, and our children will bear the interest expense on annually in perpetuity.
Your turn: Tell me what you think we ‘won’...

[StCloudMoose]

F-Off crazy AssHat