OT: Iraqi Beaten To Death by US Troops
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Iraqi 'beaten to death' by US troops
14apr04
AN Iraqi has died of his wounds after US troops beat him with truncheons
because he refused to remove a picture of wanted Shiite Muslim leader Moqtada
Sadr from his car, police said today.
The motorist was stopped late yesterday by US troops conducting search
operations on a street in the centre of the central city of Kut, Lieutenant
Mohamad Abdel Abbas said.
After the man refused to remove Sadr's picture from his car, the soldiers
forced him out of the vehicle and started beating him with truncheons, he said.
US troops also detained from the same area five men wearing black pants and
shirts, the usual attire of Sadr's Mehdi Army militiamen and followers.
Qassem Hassan, the director of Kut general hospital, identified the man as
Salem Hassan, a resident of a Kut suburb.
He said the man had died of wounds sustained in the beating.
A spokesman for the US-led coalition could not confirm the incident.
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see how effectively you can spread this silliness.
If our boys overseas have to crack a few heads to keep things
straight...let it be. Better 10,000,000 of them than one of ours.
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News Anchor Dan Rather, NPR Reporter Cokie Roberts and a U.S. Marine were
hiking through the desert one day when they were captured by Iraqis. They
were tied up, led to the village and brought before the leader. The leader
said, "I am familiar with your western custom of granting the condemned a
last wish. Before we kill and dismember you, do you have any last requests?"
Dan Rather said, "Well, I'm a Texan; so I'd like one last bowl full of hot,
spicy chili." The leader nodded to an underling who left and returned with
the chili. Rather ate it all and said, "Now I can die content."
Cokie Roberts said, "I'm a reporter to the end. I want to take out my tape
recorder and describe the scene here and what's about to happen. Maybe
someday someone will hear it and know that I was on the job till the end."
The leader directed an aide to hand over the tape recorder and Roberts
dictated some comments. She then said, "Now I can die happy."
The leader turned and said, "And now, Mr. U.S. Marine, what is your final
wish?" "Kick me in the ass," said the Marine." "What?" asked the leader.
"Will you mock us in your last hour?"
"No, I'm not kidding. I want you to kick me in the ass," insisted the
Marine. So the leader shoved him into the open, and kicked him in the ass.
The Marine went sprawling, but rolled to his knees, pulled a 9mm pistol from
inside his cammies, and shot the leader dead. In the resulting confusion, he
leapt to his knapsack, pulled out his M4 carbine, and sprayed the Iraqis
with gunfire. In a flash, the Iraqis were dead or fleeing for their lives.
As the Marine was untying Rather and Roberts, they asked him,
"Why didn't you just shoot them? Why did you ask them to kick you in the
ass?"
"What!?" said the Marine, "And have you liberal assholes call ME the
aggressor?"
Raoul
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This Mighty Bronco and Jake the Snake fan just fell off the chair and shit
himself. Nicely done!
aloha
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