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2004-06-15 Iraq-Jordan

Rioting follows bombings that kill 21, injure 62 in Iraq

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Posted by Zenster 2004-06-15 3:00:05 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 the IP didnt act in crowd control? Huh, pros help, but I would think control of a large angry crowd, by a few police, who very much need to avoid civilian casualties, and who probably dont have tear gas, etc is one of the hardest tasks for police.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-06-15 9:53:39 AM|| 2004-06-15 9:53:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "We have lost more than them. They deserve this."

Now we see into the heart of Islam--vengeance and barbarity for all.

Posted by jules 187 2004-06-15 10:39:21 AM|| 2004-06-15 10:39:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The crowd became increasingly hostile, with one man shaking a severed finger

gebus I'll bet these guys are a lot of fun in a buffet line.

Posted by Shipman 2004-06-15 11:21:01 AM|| 2004-06-15 11:21:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Wasn't there a remarkably fortuitous TV shot of the actual explosion? And an anti-american crowd formed spontaneously, you say?

"No, shit don't just happen. Shit takes time, shit takes effort..."
-- Formula 51

Posted by mojo 2004-06-15 4:37:47 PM|| 2004-06-15 4:37:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 " Like many Iraqis, he seemed divided in his thoughts on the occupation, the future and the rising violence. At one moment, as he watched the mob pound and kick the destroyed vehicles, Atiha shook his head. "That is wrong," he said. "That is disrespectful." But the next moment, Atiha, 21, said of the foreigners, "We have lost more than them. They deserve this." "

Welcome to the Arab world. Flip-flop. Flip-flop.

Too many of them understand only brute force, and Moslems will not fight against other Moslems. That's how it works. How will this "democracy" thing ever suceed in such a place? How will the reasonable among them ever maintain power and control?

I think it's difficult to be certain the attack was totally organized, as mojo asserts. Sure, some organized it, then didn't the others just "join the party" after the fact?

I wonder (crickets chirping . . . ) if the press will cover how "humiliating" and "unconscionable" that experience was, for the people who died that day.

Posted by ex-lib 2004-06-15 7:06:06 PM|| 2004-06-15 7:06:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 There is only one way to deal with these people. It either involves a trenchen or a gun. Only those two will sure this beahvior.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2004-06-15 9:10:54 PM|| 2004-06-15 9:10:54 PM|| Front Page Top

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