LAT: Killing Drives Wedge Between Troops

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-killing18oct18,1,3328949,print.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Like most men from his impoverished Bedouin village, 17-year-old Falah Zaggam joined the Iraqi national guard for a job and steady paycheck.

Federico Merida, 21, was raising a family and working at a furniture business in North Carolina when his U.S. National Guard unit was sent to Iraq earlier this year.

Late one night last spring, the two guardsmen found themselves alone in a lookout tower at a military base here in Ad Dawr, near Tikrit in northern Iraq. They were supposed to be working together to ward off insurgents.

But before the shift ended, Merida shot the Iraqi to death and threw his body off the tower.

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The killing has also driven a deep wedge between U.S. and Iraqi troops in the region, just as American officials are hoping to bring the security forces closer together to restore peace in Iraq.

I wonder what made Merida shot his 'partner'...

Merida had ever eaten in a Vietnamese, Thai, Indian, Middle Eastern, or Filipino restaurant?

I am 100% sure that 98% of all Americans who are/have lived overseas about 2 months are voting for Kerry. Tell me just what do Christian repukes get off on hearing and seeing thousands of people murdered weekly? If there were such a God he would have given aWol wisdom to find a peaceful solution. The facts are that aWol and his Admin are agents of Satan!

Repukes don't want peace, nor do they say God advocates peace. They have some skewed idea that God wants war!

"Just about the only thing the U.S. military and local Iraqis seem to share is a deep discomfort in discussing the murder because it deals with issues of homosexuality, taboo in both cultures."

And this in the LA Times.