The unreported driveby shooting
ram | 04.10.2003 16:02 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism
Poor Iraqis trying to feed their starving children and in the melee another man who got the only job available in Iraq for Iraqis -- guarding the invading pigscum's interests is shot dead in cold blood.
How convenient the BBC spins it as 'British soldier shot and killed an Iraqi holding a weapon after hearing gunfire'! (October 4, 2003 05:00 pm BST)
Sky finally simply mentiones it as 'one Iraqi killed in Basra'
All the while the Saturday sports mania is disrupted at great length to highlight two gangland driveby shootigns as great length and with so much concern!!
This is how Reuters reported the story by (October 4, 2003 08:15 AM ET)
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3557522 "....Witnesses said the dead Iraqi had been a security guard who fired a warning shot when protesters were approaching. ..."
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Ah! Now it is reported!!
05.10.2003 18:55
'A British soldier has shot and killed an Iraqi protester during a demonstration in Basra.
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Major Greenwood said it was not appropriate to discuss how the shooting came about but acknowledged there must have been sufficient violence for a shot to be fired.'
Up Major Greenwood's pig arse!
Even the Washington Post reports this
'Maj. Simon Routledge as saying that a British soldier shot and killed an Iraqi man after seeing him fire a weapon. Witnesses said, however, that the man was a security guard who had been firing a warning shot to disperse the rioters'
Even unknown Boulder News reports the eye witness accounts
If they do not welcome cheering (as it was all staged in March with Kuwaitis for the embedded pig Journalists) then it is shoot them dead?
I wonder whether the dead security guard's kids are starvign to death at home now....
ram