US soldiers kill teenager, wound four in flashpoint Iraqi town

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030917/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_fallujah_toll&cid=1514&ncid=1473

FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFP) - US soldiers killed an Iraqi teenager and wounded four other people when they opened fire in the center of the flashpoint town of Fallujah, an AFP correspondent and witnesses said.

The soldiers opened fire when their convoy drove near a house where a wedding was under way and shots were being fired in the air in celebration, said a reporter in the town, 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Baghdad.

Fourteen-year-old Sufian Daoud was shot dead and four people, including two women, were wounded, in the incident, which happened at 11:00 pm (1900 GMT). snip

The troops, apparently thinking they were the target of the celebratory fire, shot in the direction of both the people taking part in the wedding and passers-by.

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[Warren Stuart]

1. And to think we went to war in Kuwait

Because of non-existent babies in incubators.

The sad thing is the Iraqis don't have to make up any stories to keep up the intensity level. If this is the progess Cheney and Powell were referring to then I'd hate to see what a setback is.

[mmm]

2. will this be the straw that breaks the camel's back?

[karlschneider]

3. Kill 'em all, let Allah sort 'em out.

:grr:

[lumpy]

13. Explain your comment, please, schneider.

nt

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. I'm pretty sure that shooting up a wedding is not in Dale Carnegie's

How To Make Friends and Influence People.

[BonjourUSA]

5. This young guys begin to be too much tired..

and stressed by the fear.

When Iraqi people will feel that a kill will be a too much one the situation will go awry. The Abrahams couldn't do nothing against a crowd except if US army wants to become a butcher.

[gratuitous]

6. And when the enraged Iraqis retaliate

We'll hear more paternalistic colonizer comments from the military high command about how emotional and crazed this culture is, all out for revenge, blah, blah, blah.

And a few more coffins will come through Dover AFB while the Hugger in Chief attends another fundraiser, and a few more families bury a son decades too soon.

[PROUDNWLIBERAL]

7. karlschneider responce

This is racist---not needed in this forum!

[No Passaran]

8. i'm sure..

he didn't mean anything by it.

[karlschneider]

9. I see you are new here so I will let that slide.

:eyes:

[VolcanoJen]

10. Kick

:dem:

[are_we_united_yet]

11. Uhhh.....if you want flowers thrown at the soldiers feet,

this is probably not going to do the trick.

[aquart]

16. Anything they throw at our feet will explode.

They are absolutely entitled to kill us if they can. We are invaders. There is no uglier thing to be.

[lumpy]

12. Similar sort of event happened in Afghanistan

Wedding celebrants shooting into the air were shot at by US troops, last year some time.

[aquart]

14. Okay. They know the Americans are nervous

And they still fire those guns in the air?

That's STUPID. A moron custom with a sad but predictable result.

No Iraqi should die from an American bullet. They never attacked us.

But given the current circumstances, the people who learned to stay alive under Saddam should have been a lot quicker to figure out this is one custom that needs to go.

Death by stupidity. Macho or death.

[aquart]

15. Okay. They know the Americans are nervous

And they still fire those guns in the air?

That's STUPID. A moron custom with a sad but predictable result.

No Iraqi should die from an American bullet. They never attacked us.

But given the current circumstances, the people who learned to stay alive under Saddam should have been a lot quicker to figure out this is one custom that needs to go.

Death by stupidity. Macho or death.