[lit-ideas] Re: See SAW
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 10:30:09 -0700
Lawrence writes...
And that is not the situation in Iraq. The Shiites and Kurds wanted our
help in Iraq. It is the defeated Baathist Sunnis who do not.
The Shiites want our help in Iraq? Last night, they shot down a British helicopter in Basra.
Read the following, how the Iraqi Shiite population reacted:
Iraqis Cheer Crash of British Helicopter
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A British military helicopter crashed in Basra on Saturday, and Iraqis
hurled stones at British troops and set fire to three armored vehicles that rushed to the
scene. Clashes broke out between British troops and Shiite militias, police and witnesses
said.
Police Capt. Mushtaq Khazim said the helicopter was apparently shot down in a residential
district. He said the four-member crew was killed, but British officials would say only that
there were "casualties."
British forces backed by armored vehicles rushed to the area but were met by a hail of
stones from the crowd of at least 250 people, who jumped for joy and raised their fists as a
plume of thick smoke rose into the air from the crash site.
The crowd set three British armored vehicles on fire, apparently with gasoline bombs and a
rocket-propelled grenade, but the soldiers inside escaped unhurt, witnesses said.
British troops shot into the air trying to disperse the crowd, then shooting broke out
between the British and Iraqi militiamen, Khazim said. At least four people, including a
child, were killed and 31 wounded, he said. Two of the fatalities were adults shot by
British troops while driving a car in the area, Khazim said.
The crowd chanted "we are all soldiers of al-Sayed," a reference to radical Shiite cleric
Muqtada al-Sadr, an ardent foe of the presence of foreign troops in Iraq.
Later the crowd scattered after hearing explosion, but groups of men set fire to tires in
the streets and the situation remained tense. The chaotic scene was widely shown on Iraqi
state television and on the Al-Jazeera satellite station.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060506/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=AtkesifkB_CWrhEHHobxuzUEtbAF;_ylu=X3oDMTBhZDJjOXUyBHNlYwNtdm5ld3M-
yrs,
andreas
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