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| Apr 13th, 2003 12:33 PM | |
| Zebra 3 |
As Seen on TV  - Well looks like Operation Iraqi Freedom is well under way.
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| Apr 13th, 2003 12:18 PM | |
| AChimp |
The looting was originally confined to government buildings and the palaces, but has since shifted to people's homes and independent stores. Yesterday, looters stole priceless artifacts, some more than 4000 years old, from the Baghdad museum. |
| Apr 12th, 2003 10:00 PM | |
| Cap'n Crunch | What were they looting? Do they even have anything to loot there besides a toy racetrack hooked up to a car battery? |
| Apr 12th, 2003 08:59 PM | |
| Anonymous | maybe it was hot out |
| Apr 12th, 2003 08:04 PM | |
| CaptainBubba |
US troops kill merchant defending shop against looters http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...p_030411155239 Mideast - AFP US troops kill merchant defending shop against looters Fri Apr 11,11:52 AM ET BAGHDAD (AFP) - US soldiers shot and killed a Baghdad shopkeeper who was defending his shop with a Kalashnikov assault rifle against looters, neighbours told an AFP photographer The merchant pulled his rifle on the thieves when they began sacking the shop, neighbours said. When US soldiers approached the area, the looters told them that the shopkeeper was a member of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s Fedayeen paramilitary force. The American troops opened fire with heavy machine guns, killing the man, the neighbors said. The photographer saw the covered body of Mohammad al-Barheini, 25, lying on a shelf of his shop, his head in a bag, on the Al-Rashid commercial street in the capital. |
