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by no to occupation
Wednesday, Apr. 16, 2003 at 8:56 AM
U.S. "Liberation" troops fire on a crowd of demonstrators in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul... killing at least 10 and injuring 100. Meanwhile, at the US-sponsored talks near Nasiriyah on the formation of a new government... 20,000 protested the U.S. invasion, chanting "No to America. No to Saddam."
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Thanks - now get out ... an anti-American protest in Baghdad. Photo: AFP
United States troops opened fire on a crowd hostile to the new pro-American governor in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul yesterday, killing at least 10 people and injuring as many as 100, witnesses and doctors said.
The shooting overshadowed the start of US-brokered talks aimed at sketching out a post-Saddam Iraq. At Mosul hospital Dr Ayad al-Ramadhani said the American soldiers had fired into a crowd that was becoming increasingly hostile towards governor Mashaan al-Juburi as he was making a pro-US speech in the city. But a US miltary spokesman said the troops had come under fire from at least two gunmen and fired back, but did not aim at the crowd.
"There are perhaps 100 wounded and 10 to 12 dead," Dr al-Ramadhani said as angry relatives of the dead and wounded voiced hatred of Americans and Westerners.
One witness, Marwan Mohammed, 50, said: "We were at the market place near the government building, where Juburi was making a speech. He said everything would be restored, water, electricity, and that democracy was the Americans. As for the Americans, they were going through the crowd with their flag. They placed themselves between the civilians and the building. The people moved toward the government building, the children threw stones, the Americans started firing. Then they prevented the people from recovering the bodies."
A doctor, Said Altah, said: "Juburi said the people must co-operate with the United States. The crowd called him a liar, and tempers rose as he continued to talk. They threw objects at him, overturned his car, which exploded. The wounded said Juburi asked the Americans to fire."
Ayad Hassun said the trouble broke out after the crowd interrupted Mr Juburi's speech with cries of, "There is no God but God, and Muhammad is his prophet."
"You are with Saddam's fedayeen," retorted Mr Juburi, to which the crowd chanted that, "The only democracy is to make the Americans leave." He said 20 US soldiers escorted Mr Juburi back into the building. "They climbed on top of the building and first fired at a building near the crowd, with the glass falling on the civilians. People started to throw stones, then the Americans fired at them."
But the US spokesman said: "There were protesters outside, 100 to 150, there was fire, we returned fire. We didn't fire at the crowd, but at the top of the building. There were at least two gunmen. I don't know if they were killed. The firing was not intensive but sporadic, and lasted up to two minutes."
At the US-sponsored talks near the southern city of Nasiriyah, crowds earlier denounced the US presence in Iraq.
Thousands protested that they did not need US help now Saddam Hussein had gone. "No to America. No to Saddam," chanted Iraqis from the Shia Muslim majority oppressed by Saddam. Arabic television networks said up to 20,000 people marched.
In Baghdad, meanwhile, hundreds of people chanting "our blood and our soul we give to Iraq" gathered outside the Palestine Hotel in protest against the US presence. The hotel now houses US military and reporters.
Australia came in for criticism at the Nasiriyah conference when one delegate, Sheik Sayed Jamaluddin, hit out at the detention of Iraqi asylum seekers. After thanking the US and Britain for liberating Iraqis from Saddam, the Shiite cleric said: "I call on the representatives of the Australian Government to ask the Government to accept the human rights of those Iraqis who are held prisoner in some capacity in Iraq that they might be treated in a humane fashion."
The talks ended on yesterday with an agreement to meet again in 10 days. Jay Garner, the former US general leading the effort to rebuild Iraq, opened the conference, saying: "A free and democratic Iraq will begin today."
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by Parmenides
Wednesday, Apr. 16, 2003 at 9:27 AM
And even though the rain of cruise missles may have stopped the killing of civilians does not. How many times must America go down this bloody road before the killers in the govt are deposed, banished from political prominence, and put on trial? The crimes that they commit and attempt to blame on us--the American people, create a firestorm of hatred against Americans. That and their false promises of democracy show them for the cowards they truly are.
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by daveman
Wednesday, Apr. 16, 2003 at 10:28 AM
..the evil US Killbots opened fire on children.
Prove it.
Oh, and I suppose it never occurred to you that the people who fired on the troops were Fedayeen Saddam, and may have fired into the crowd themselves?
No, it never did, didn't it? We'll never see any ballistics reports from those killed, either. It won't be 5.56mm NATO ammunition, I guarantee.
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by FOX NEWS
Wednesday, Apr. 16, 2003 at 10:35 AM
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by Parmenides
Wednesday, Apr. 16, 2003 at 10:47 AM
Sorry davey boy I won't play your game. Go back to your clubhouse and play with your gijoes now, like a good little turd.
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by Towelhead
Wednesday, Apr. 16, 2003 at 10:54 AM
You guarantee??? How do you plan to back up that guarantee?
You are amusing...you seem to know more about what's going on over there than Tommy Franks.
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by daveman
Wednesday, Apr. 16, 2003 at 10:57 AM
I know what's going on because I watch Fox News. They wouldn't lie to me, would they?
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by daveman
Wednesday, Apr. 16, 2003 at 11:07 AM
You won't play that game? You mean the one that says you have to back up what you say? Cool! I'll play, too! I can make any outrageous claim I want, and I don't have to offer any substantiation! And if I'm wrong? Doesn't matter! I won't admit it!
Yes, I guarantee...because I know American fighting men. Do you? We don't shoot children for the fun of it. Didn't you read waht the US spokesman said? They fired at the top of the building. Oh, I guess you did read it...and immediataely discounted it as lies, because it came from a US spokesman.
You people really need to get over your hate of the US. Or just leave it; either one works for me. Or else start an armed rebellion. Talk is cheap; let's see some action.
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by a US spokesman
Wednesday, Apr. 16, 2003 at 11:13 AM
daveman, kindly go jump off the nearest bridge.
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by fresca
Wednesday, Apr. 16, 2003 at 6:12 PM
There was absolutely NO demonstration against US forces by Iraqi civilians. There simply wasn't. If you care to remain an ass and try to argue this fact, then try to verify such a ludicrous claim. You know it and I know it. It never happened.
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by nike chiapas
Wednesday, Apr. 16, 2003 at 6:17 PM
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by phaedra
Thursday, Apr. 17, 2003 at 4:58 AM
Go to bbc world news and the top story on the war is the admission of US forces in Mosul that they did indeed fire on demonstrators and the result was an unconfirmed(7 - 10 ) dead.
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by FOX NEWS
Thursday, Apr. 17, 2003 at 8:02 AM
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by AMARICAN!!!1
Thursday, Apr. 17, 2003 at 12:33 PM
HAHAHAHA YUO SILLY PROTOSTORS!!! WE SHOT YOU DED!!!
WHO CARES IF THE AMARICAN MARENES SHOTE ALL THE IRAQI SLIME!!!
WE ARE AMARICA!!!
AND IT DIDNT NOT HAPPAN ANYWAY!!! SO SHUT UP OR MOVE TO YOURE FAVERAT CUNTRY SIRIA!!!
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by fresca
Thursday, Apr. 17, 2003 at 3:06 PM
Nope. The BBC is obviously involved in a reverse Psyops campaign. You leftist trolls will have to try harder with your misinformation campaigns.
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by FOX NEWS
Thursday, Apr. 17, 2003 at 4:02 PM
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