yankee soldiers have shot and killed 8 Iraqi police

[London Calling]

Looks like the Yanks have been a bit gun ho, it appears they were involved in a one hour battle!


Shouldn't they try to find out who they are shooting at?

Is this some type of plan to ensure Vietnam 2.

LC1

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - American troops killed eight members of a local U.S.-backed Iraqi security force and three thieves in an ambush west of Baghdad early Friday, after mistaking them for guerrillas, witnesses said.
Police officer Assem Mohammed told Reuters a joint force of the Iraqi police and the U.S.-backed security force of Falluja were chasing thieves in a car shortly after midnight when U.S. soldiers opened fire. Six police and guards were also wounded.
There was no immediate word from the U.S. military.
"We were chasing a car when the Americans fired at us," Mohammed said from his hospital bed. "They continued firing for about an hour despite our pleas for them to stop and to tell them we are police and security."


Other police officers confirmed Mohammed's report and put the toll at eight dead guards and three thieves.


The Jordanian military hospital in the area was badly damaged by crossfire.


Guerrillas have killed 69 U.S. soldiers since Washington declared an end to major combat in Iraq on May 1. U.S. officials blame the attacks on loyalists of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein and foreign Islamist fighters.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

bad news but you can never be sure of the situation..it could have been crowded with a few people firing at them etc. Lets not take any oportunity to bash the yanks on this one. I had someone moaning at me the other day how his Curdish friend whos now gone home to Iraq after years over here said an american soldier asked him where he could find a whore. This appalled him..but is no different really to the brits etc in the first world war on leave from the trenches in flanders etc. Not ideal but by no means an excuse to start slating all our allied soldiers. Also, he completely forgot to mention his mate now COULD return to Iraq...

 

[Dandyman]

Memo to Allied Forces:


Friendly fire

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I think its a bit ridiculous to think that the allied forces, USA or UK should be expected to stand there and be shot at and not expect them to fight back. I doubt if the " Yanks " got up and thought lets go and shoot 8 Iraqi police !.

I'm not buying all this anti USA propaganda.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Yes but Gareth in this case they weren't being fired at.. at least not by the local police.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Don't know not seen the news yet. Can't see " The Yanks " being involved in a battle with Iraqi Police without good reason.

 

[Albion Dan]

Come on Gareth pull your head out from your arse. Its not like the Yanks have blown up enough of our boys just because they are incompetent?

 

[Lord Cornwallis]

With the madness and total anarchy in Iraq at the moment, I'm not surprised. All troops are no doubt on edge as they don't know what dark corner the next bullet is coming from.
What does piss me of, IMHO, is the official spin will no doubt go along the lines of "We are winning this war and restoring law, order and democracy for the people of Iraq and sorted out 3 very dangerous thieves. Oh and 8 policemen were caught in friendly fire."

 

[London Calling]

Gareth mate, what ever the pro and cons of the war. The Yanks are incompetant.

Rightly they are nervous, but weren't our soldiers nervous, scared in Northern Ireland, did they go around shooting willy nilly. Well ok yes that did happen but in the end they developed Policing without harming innocent people.

What we don't need is the US poorly trained troops bringing us into further conflict.

By the way 2 US troops were killed earlier that day.

LC1

 

[Juan Albion]

Some of you guys have seen (and believed) too many war movies. Have you never heard of the 'fog of war'? Things like this have always happened, always will. Very sad, and sick to see some want to make political capital out of it.

 

[SK1NT]

Don't know not seen the news yet. Can't see " The Yanks " being involved in a battle with Iraqi Police without good reason.

do u watch or read the news gareth! the yanks are incompetent fucks! they'd shoot a f***ing school girl if she was in front of them!

The yank army is a group of untrained killers, with no respect for life!

 

[NMH]

Cowboy mentality.

 

[oapdodge]

Oh well,never mind.

 

[fatbadger]

Some of you guys have seen (and believed) too many war movies. Have you never heard of the 'fog of war'? Things like this have always happened, always will. Very sad, and sick to see some want to make political capital out of it.

Some of you guys have seen (and believed) too many war movies. Have you never heard of 'military incompetence'? Things like this always happen, always will. Very sad, and sick to see some want to deny the political element in all this.

 

[berkshire seagull]

Its impossible to no who is who over there and its a no win situation and will get much worse,so best pull out because the troops will be picked at group by group.

 

[Albion Dan]

I cant believe what Im reading Berkshire!

You were totally 100% behind going to war in Iraq and now you are saying pull the troops out with the country in a complete f***ing shambles because of the war you supported and no Saddam and no wmds to be seen for dust.

Jeez!

There should never have been a war, there is now a much much bigger threat of terrorism to us because of Iraq, there are no weapons, there was no immediate threat, Iraq is a shambles, and we are now stuck with a guerilla war that will drag on for months if not years and add more casualties to the 1000's weve already seen. Our boys are in the firing line and we havent even f***ing caught Saddam.

Weve been well and truly had by that twat Bush and knobhead Blair and now unbelievably many of the pro war camp are saying Pull out. You couldnt make this shit up!

 

[borat]

I cant believe what Im reading Berkshire!

You were totally 100% behind going to war in Iraq and now you are saying pull the troops out with the country in a complete f***ing shambles because of the war you supported and no Saddam and no wmds to be seen for dust.

Jeez!

There should never have been a war, there is now a much much bigger threat of terrorism to us because of Iraq, there are no weapons, there was no immediate threat, Iraq is a shambles, and we are now stuck with a guerilla war that will drag on for months if not years and add more casualties to the 1000's weve already seen. Our boys are in the firing line and we havent even f***ing caught Saddam.

Weve been well and truly had by that twat Bush and knobhead Blair and now unbelievably many of the pro war camp are saying Pull out. You couldnt make this shit up!

You couldnt put it better.

 

[alan partridge]

You couldnt put it better.

you certainly couldn't