Doomstone
04-15-2003, 07:23 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/international/worldspecial/15CND-NORT.html?ex=1051070400&en=f1bf5ba12ec9d290&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
At least 10 Iraqis were reported killed and 16 injured today in a clash in northern Iraq...
Col. Andrew P. Frick, commander of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which began arriving here only two days ago, said men in the crowd began firing at the marines. The Americans withdrew into the building and continued to receive fire, he said. When they fired warning shots over the heads of people in the crowd, most of the Iraqis dispersed, he said. When shots continued to hit the governate, the marines decided anyone still in the area was hostile. "The marines said `OK, the fight is on,"' Colonel Frick said. "And the marines returned accurate fire."
Wounded Iraqis in the city's general hospital today gave a starkly different version of events. They said a controversial Iraqi opposition leader, Mishaan Al-Jabouri, started speaking to the crowd and hailing the arrival of American forces in Mosul. "They began throwing stones," said Fateh Tata Abed, a 32-year-old man shot in the chest and upper arm. "And the American forces started shooting at us." A second man, 39-year-old Sadullah Ghanal, gave roughly the same version of events. "After we threw stones at Mishaan Jabouri," he said, "the Americans started to fire on us."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030415/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_war_us_mosul_030415151253
At least 10 people were shot dead and scores wounded in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul, a hospital doctor said, with witnesses claiming US troops had opened fire on a crowd after it turned against an American-installed local governor.
Those charges were denied by a US military spokesman here, who said troops had come under fire from at least two gunmen and fired back, without aiming at the crowd.
Guess they didn't want to be liberated...or didn't feel they'd been sufficiently liberated. Or maybe there was just nothing left to loot.
"Those damn Iraqis, they'll be free whether they like it or not!"
At least 10 Iraqis were reported killed and 16 injured today in a clash in northern Iraq...
Col. Andrew P. Frick, commander of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which began arriving here only two days ago, said men in the crowd began firing at the marines. The Americans withdrew into the building and continued to receive fire, he said. When they fired warning shots over the heads of people in the crowd, most of the Iraqis dispersed, he said. When shots continued to hit the governate, the marines decided anyone still in the area was hostile. "The marines said `OK, the fight is on,"' Colonel Frick said. "And the marines returned accurate fire."
Wounded Iraqis in the city's general hospital today gave a starkly different version of events. They said a controversial Iraqi opposition leader, Mishaan Al-Jabouri, started speaking to the crowd and hailing the arrival of American forces in Mosul. "They began throwing stones," said Fateh Tata Abed, a 32-year-old man shot in the chest and upper arm. "And the American forces started shooting at us." A second man, 39-year-old Sadullah Ghanal, gave roughly the same version of events. "After we threw stones at Mishaan Jabouri," he said, "the Americans started to fire on us."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030415/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_war_us_mosul_030415151253
At least 10 people were shot dead and scores wounded in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul, a hospital doctor said, with witnesses claiming US troops had opened fire on a crowd after it turned against an American-installed local governor.
Those charges were denied by a US military spokesman here, who said troops had come under fire from at least two gunmen and fired back, without aiming at the crowd.
Guess they didn't want to be liberated...or didn't feel they'd been sufficiently liberated. Or maybe there was just nothing left to loot.
"Those damn Iraqis, they'll be free whether they like it or not!"