U.S. Kills 40 At Wedding

Mr Manifesto said:




Doesn't sound like the sort of guns fired at wedding parties in Afghanistan. I'd say this was more of a case of, "Oops! We missed!" which has been too common in the Afghanistan/Iraq wars.
Click to expand...

Also the wedding guest were shooting in the air at the time, so it is possible that a bomb was misdirected toward them because of the muzzle flashes. Shooting in the air while there is a fire fight going on is not the best way to celebrate a wedding.
 
SRW said:
I recall the same thing happened in Afghanistan, where the wedding guests were shooting guns into the air and U.S. plane "returned fire". It might be a good Idea if the practice of shooting off guns for celebratory purposes be stopped while fighting is going on. Just a thought.
Click to expand...

If they made me dictator of the middle east, that is the first law I would pass. Goddam guns.
 
Reuters reported the US commander as stating his forces had engaged a "safe house" situation with satelite links, large quantities of money, weapons, and so forth.


I concur with the statement above regarding the intelligence of firing weapons in a war zone as part of a celebration.
 
You have to be a real moron to be shooting into the air in a populated area, warzone or not.
 
Bikewer said:
Reuters reported the US commander as stating his forces had engaged a "safe house" situation with satelite links, large quantities of money, weapons, and so forth.


I concur with the statement above regarding the intelligence of firing weapons in a war zone as part of a celebration.
Click to expand...

Sounds like a typical texan house to me.
 
So if you cant use small arms in a war zone what are you suppose to do if your being robbed by looters?..Why are Iraqis >>>allowed<<< to have small arms if they cant use them?
What kind of response is reacting to muzzle flashes with air supoort? In a "populated area"?
 
Number Six said:
The Pentagon says it was a military operation on a safe house for enemy fighters. I wish it were easy to determine the truth in these things. Maybe I'm biased but at this point I'm leaning towards believing the US.
Click to expand...

Same here.
 
Most of the bodies on the APTN videotape were wrapped in blankets and other cloths, but the footage showed at least eight uncovered, bloody bodies, several of them children. One of the children was headless.

“We received about 40 martyrs today, mainly women and children below the age of 12,” Hamdy al-Lousy, the director of Qaim hospital, told the Dubai-based satellite television station Al-Arabiya, which reported that 41 people were killed and 10 injured in the attack. “We also have 11 people wounded, most of them in critical condition.”

Al-Arabiya showed pictures of several shrouded bodies lined up on a dirt road. Men were shown digging graves and lowering bodies, one of a child, into the pits while relatives wept.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5013551/
Click to expand...

Was the target value of whatever MIGHT have been there really worth it? The mideast is spiraling out of control and here we are with our hands on the flusher.
 
From the story:

The coalition troops came under hostile fire and "close air support was provided," the statement said. The troops recovered weapons, Iraqi and Syrian currency, some passports and some satellite communications gear, it said.
Click to expand...

Something borrowed, something blue...?

Was it mistaken celebratory gunfire again? You'd think that in the middle of a war zone, they might think twice about shooting in the air.
 
Er, some Iraqis claim it is a wedding; the US is claiming otherwise--that it's a safehouse. Right now nobody (except those there) really know.

The fact that it was 2:45 at night also means the chance of mistaken identity, if in fact it WAS a wedding, escalate.

All this goes to prove the old adage: friendly fire ain't.
 
The coalition troops came under hostile fire and "close air support was provided," the statement said. The troops recovered weapons, Iraqi and Syrian currency, some passports and some satellite communications gear, it said.

Er... wedding presents?
 
Regardless of the circumstances the pics of headless children are unlikely to improve our image.
 
1
(please note: my stating the above does not deter from my opinion that GWB is the biggest douchebag ever)
Click to expand...

Wait just a darn minute. That is my opinion and I want it back.

2
Sounds like a typical texan house to me.
Click to expand...
You are certainly mistaken there. When I lived in Texas we always shot at stuff, not into the air.
 
Skeptic said:
The coalition troops came under hostile fire and "close air support was provided," the statement said. The troops recovered weapons, Iraqi and Syrian currency, some passports and some satellite communications gear, it said.

Er... wedding presents?
Click to expand...

What I find really disturbing is that so many news sources uncritically accept the findings of foreign passports, large amounts of currency and satellite communications gear as proof of terrorist activity.

Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been living in exile for many years, and quite a few of them are eager to return home now that Saddam is gone. Those who have changed their citizenship -- or those who have been living in countries that accept dual citizenship (for example Sweden) -- will have non-Iraqi passports. And whether they plan to return permanently or have only come back to help their relatives, odds are they will need to bring a lot of cash. And if they have grown accustomed to satellite TV and broadband, in most of Iraq they have no choice but to bring their own communications gear.

As for the weapons -- well, Iraq had a fairly well-armed civilian population under Saddam. It was one of the reasons the pessimists claimed the war would be difficult to win. People were instructed to hand their weapons over to the authorities after the war, but as Americans say, "then only outlaws would have guns."

I'm not saying this case was necessarily an innocent wedding. My point is just that you are likely to find most of these things quite legitimately in every Iraqi household that's had one or more members return from exile. So it's pretty stupid to use them as terrorist criteria.
 
wedding planning can get complicated

food and drinks need a caterer

dress by whomever

flowers by local people

photos by concealed watch team

dispersment at the end of an evening by laser guided missle

its a day they will never forget

more cynasism anybody or is war just that, war! casualties are not optional
 
Number Six said:
The Pentagon says it was a military operation on a safe house for enemy fighters. I wish it were easy to determine the truth in these things. Maybe I'm biased but at this point I'm leaning towards believing the US.
Click to expand...

Can't say that I do. Not that I trust the Iraqi's either, but I certainly don't trust our current leadership.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top Bottom