Seven killed in bus shooting(Ramadi)

[maddezmom]

Seven people were killed when the bus they were travelling in through the Iraqi city of Ramadi came under fire, police and witnesses said.

Ramadi police chief Brigadier Jasim al-Dulaimi said US troops opened fire on the bus as it passed the governorate building.

The US military had no immediate comment.

Reuters Television footage showed the bus peppered with bullet holes.

Some of the windows were shattered and others were spattered with blood.


more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1248281.htm

[tabasco]

1. Hey ! They're better off than they were under Saddam !

Well, maybe not those people on the bus, but somebody sure is! Why do you hate America so much? Why don't you post some of the good news out of Iraq? The Iraqis are free!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Democracy is untidy like the greatest ever Secretary of Defense said.

I can't wait till America speads more and more democracy around the world until the whole world is one big giant democracy!!

[acmavm]

2. I guess they apparently ARE operating under the premise of kill 'em

all, ask questions later.

[Make7]

3. One wrong turn....

and look what happens. If only the driver would have stopped and asked for directions...

Isn't the occupying military force supposed to be responsible for maintaining order?

-Make7

[Darranar]

4. A disgusting atrocity. n/t

[maddezmom]

5. military admits to killing 3 civilians at checkpoint

U.S. Marines admitted to killing three civilians on a bus in Ramadi the day before, saying the driver ignored orders to stop at a checkpoint. Ramadi's police chief said seven were killed.

[pinniped]

6. Wow, this line sounds eerily familiar.

-The US military had no immediate comment.-

[maddezmom]

7. just like yesterday, after spokesperson said insurgents had held up

white flags and shot into US troops, with out elaborating.

[maddezmom]

8. and here's the explanation from the US military:

Marines from the 1st Marine Division shot and killed an insurgent Sunday who opened fire after pretending to be dead. The U.S. military is investigating a Nov. 13 incident in which an NBC videotape showed a Marine shooting a wounded man lying in a Fallujah mosque. Marines could be heard yelling that the man was pretending to be dead.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041122/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=1480

So did this insurgent open fire? and how many casualties did the US suffer? :shrug: