BBC News: UK troops 'shot harmless Iraqis'

Tim4319

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Tue May-11-04 06:10 AM
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BBC News: UK troops 'shot harmless Iraqis'

-From the BBC-

The report highlights the case of eight-year-old Hanan Saleh Matrud who was apparently shot by a member of B Company of the 1st Battalion of the King's Regiment last August.

An eye-witness told Amnesty researchers the girl had been killed when a soldier aimed and fired from a distance of about 60 metres, and not when accidentally hit by a warning shot as claimed by the Army.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3701351.stm

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gottaB

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Tue May-11-04 06:21 AM
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1. Dodge City

In defense of Her Majesty's Occupation Army, Colonel John Hughes-Wilson said, "We are not talking about Tunbridge Wells here, we're talking about Dodge City, with no police force in the aftermath of a major war, with about 16 different armed groups going round shooting Iraqis."

laugh or cry

or scream

Yet another index of the catastrophic success of Secretary Rumsfelds Tranformational All-Star Jubilee.

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Vladimir

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Tue May-11-04 06:27 AM
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2. No shit sherlock

so why don't you just get the fuck out of their country then, Colonel Wilson?

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