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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] I posted that in response to ypur post about "token gestures" not to the article. From the linked article: [QUOTE]Sgt Fargon Macksud said he was shot at by a lone gunman but at first held back from returning fire. "I saw the first muzzle flash . . . I didn't fire, I just put my cross-hairs on him," he told ITV News. "The second time he shot, I put a round in him and he fired at the ground. I put another round in him. He didn't move any more." The army said it found two machineguns, a rifle and 2,500 rounds of ammunition on the roof of a neighbouring house, as well as some spent cartridges. There were bullet holes in two windows of a class room and some bullet marks on the walls.[/QUOTE]Very tough situation- it would have probably gone down the same way in any riot situation where people are shooting at authorities and the crowd is violent -even if it's "only" stones- a soldier or cop that goes down will get torn apart by a angry mob- even in the U.S. From the second linked article: [QUOTE]Even so, al-Jazeera's Baghdad correspondent said on the air that "US forces opened fire around midnight after someone in the crowd threw a stone at them."[/QUOTE]So, we see what [i]actually happened[/i] in one news source, then Al Jeezera spins it, and this blog picks it up and repeats it like it's a fact. Makes me doubt the validity of everything else on that site. The third link (CNN) is the same senerao as the first- a gathering with soldiers near erupts in shooting at the soldiers, then the crowd starts trying to stone them (because not everyone can get their own gun, thankfully), and this time a news crew is stoned as well....[i]after[/i] they stoned someone speaking his mind (without violence!) in favor of the americans. Pattern? Insurgents are mixing with crowds to encite violence- not a new ploy, but effective, I guess...not doing their own people any favors either. Neither of these incidents looks like the troops were doing anything but defending themselves (though that last one is pretty sketchy on facts). Note that "throwing stones" is a pretty broad term here- recall that the Taliban used to publicly execute people by stoning- they are not talking about the rock fights you might have had as a kid. A few dozen people slinging baseball sized rocks is going to be as lethal as a gunman. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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