Three die as Iraq said to spark UN Kosovo police fight - Update

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L17219103.htm

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia and Montenegro, April 17 (Reuters) - Two Americans and a Jordanian were killed on Saturday when violent emotions over Iraq boiled over into a shootout between members of the U.N. law enforcement mission in Kosovo.

U.N. police spokesman Neeraj Singh said three police officers -- two American and one Jordanian -- were killed and 11 others wounded.

Unconfirmed reports spoke of up to five dead and 14 wounded in a 10-minute exchange of fire at the U.N. compound in the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica -- usually the scene of peace-making interventions by U.N. police and NATO troops.

The deputy head of the Serb hospital in Mitrovica, Milan Ivanovic, said one of the dead was an American woman, hit along with four female U.S. colleagues.

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One dead, 6 wounded in Kosovo, UN police trade fire

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia and Montenegro, April 17 (Reuters) - An American policewoman with the United Nations force in Kosovo was killed on Saturday and four U.S. policewomen were badly wounded in a shootout, said to be with Jordanian police, after a dispute about Iraq, a hospital official said.

A male American officer and an Austrian policeman were also wounded in the shooting at the U.N. compound in the city of Mitrovica, said Milan Ivanovic, deputy head of the Serbian hospital in Mitrovica.

Unconfirmed reports spoke of a total of five dead and 14 wounded in the incident, alleged to have been sparked by a dispute over Iraq between American and Jordanian colleagues.

U.N. police sources said four Jordanian police officers had been arrested in connection with the shooting but could give no further details on the alleged cause.

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[nadinbrzezinski]

1. WOW I wondered how long until this hapepend

[BootinUp]

2. Geebus

Guess we didn't those hearts and minds. :(

[Just Me]

3. Yikes!!! Sparked by a dispute over Iraq?

Aren't Jordanians moderates?

This is very curious!

[Cocoa]

very curious incident

especially the number of people involved. I wonder if alcohol was somehow involved.

[Just Me]

7. I cannot imagine that the situation is as simple,...

,...as an argument over Iraq. I mean, good grief, it appears to have turned into an all-out shoot-out.

[lordwhorfin]

4. . . .

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end

Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes...again

RIP the world.

[joanski01]

5. OMG! It's spreading!

Thank you so very much, Mr. Boosh* for unleashing your evil upon the world.

[bpilgrim]

6. now our own ALLIES... POLICE even are SHOOTING at us in other countrys

besides just IRAQ :crazy:



peace

[Aidoneus]

8. Ordinarily I'd say that somebody should tell them..

they're "on the same side", but it really doesn't seem like they are. Probably not the last incident of this kind.

[KharmaTrain]

9. On The Same Side???

Jordan's in a vice...Palestine on one side, Iraq on the other and Abdullah kissing Bunnypant's behind. At least Hussein could show some resolve against the U.S. and was a very vital, and sadly missing conduit between the U.S., Israel and the Arab world.

I've long maintained that our road out of Iraq will eventually have to go through the Arab League...have them sign off on what's going on. The UN is just the first step as the Arab world is so incensed at both our military interventions and our regime's utter arrogance.

How much more can the "Arab Street" take of seeing "infidels" in their land...only there to exploit their labor and resources, destroy their cultures and corrupt their governments. The lid can only stay on so long...especially in Jordan.

Of course our media will avoid this story as it is very devestating to this regime and its sham of saying it's a "coalition" rather than PNAC adventurism.

I haven't seen a mention, maybe someone will know...if these Jordanian soldiers are of Palestinian decent or Palestinian??

[BostonTeaParty04]

13. It's amazing how SILENT the arab league is....

You have two entities in all of those countries: the monarchs and 'the people'... and so far the monarchies have done quite a nice job of keeping 'the people' under their thumbs. But for their people to watch their way too rich monarchs just give in to the infidels time and time again? Eventually their people will want to rise up against them. And when the monarchs start to lose their hold on the riches and the power... watch out. The monarchs will have to confront the USA.

The power holders in the arab league seem to be just as unconcerned about the will of the people as bush is here.

[BostonTeaParty04]

10. Good lesson for the freepers...

can you just imagine the idiot freeper american spewing the bush bullshit... and the jordanian just landing one on his kisser.

I wonder how long it will be before we are allowed to whack these wackos over the head. I am sick of listening to their idiotic hate-mongering.

Maybe the freepers will realize why freedom of speech is such a blessing....

Sorry that people died... but can't you just see an f'ing freeper acting like bush... but over there??? Do the freepers here realize how f'ing tolerant we are of their sick attitudes???

[displacedtexan]

11. Excellent point, BostonTeaParty04!

Crime is way up in red states, and I've often wondered if freepers think they're able to do as they please because of the freak monkey squatting in the WH...

[BostonTeaParty04]

14. You bet they are running on straight arrogance.....

a very false sense of empowerment they have. They are just lucky that the left aren't a bunch of fundamentalist crazies... and that we are merely TOLERATING them.. (lots of biting of our tongues, for sure).

But you know what? I am about to turn into a fundie leftist! I am sick of their sh*t. Just 'up to here' sick of it! arrrgggh.

[Just Me]

12. *LOL* they haven't A CLUE *LOL*

And, you're right,...as with all bullies, sometimes the only way to cope with them is to stand up to them when they incite a fight. Even as an advocate for non-violent conflict resolution,...I have had to accept such a reality about these arrogant, self-involved and completely disrespectful bullies.

[BostonTeaParty04]

15. I hear you... bullies have to be dealt with directly, eventually.

any leeway you give them is interpreted (by them) as a powerful win.

I had a neighbor lady who was a big bully. She was a-mazing. 64 y.o. and mean as a snake. Had been harassing the gal next door for a few years... just in her face. She was a 'good christian republican' (the bully that is).

She started in on me one day. I let her have it (verbally). Then I would just get glares.. which is fine, I could care less.

I tried to research ADULT BULLIES.. and could not find anything on the subject. Nada. Zilch. There was only stuff on kids who are bullies and how to deal with that. But all those bullies from our childhood playgrounds grow up... and having not been appropriately dealt with in childhood.... unleash themselves on adult society.

She was an amazing piece of work.....

[Mistress Quickly]

16. Men shooting women

that's nice.

I shocked there's no outrage at this. But I see everyone is quick to say they're probably bullies, and they are American peacekeepers anyway, so they're fair game.

[NNN0LHI]

17. "I'm sorry," said Sgt Schrumpf, "but the chick was in the way".

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12812671&method=full&siteid=50143

THE WAR FOR TRUTH

Apr 5 2003


By John Pilger


WE HAD a great day," said Sgt Eric Schrumpf of the US Marines last Saturday. "We killed a lot of people."

He added: "We dropped a few civilians, but what do you do?" He said there were women standing near an Iraqi soldier, and one of them fell when he and other Marines opened fire. "I'm sorry," said Sgt Schrumpf, "but the chick was in the way".

For me, what is remarkable about this story is that I heard almost the same words 36 years ago when a US Marine sergeant told me he had killed a pregnant woman and a child because they had "got in the way".

That was in Vietnam, another country invaded by the US military machine, which left up to two million people dead and many more maimed and otherwise ruined. President Reagan called this "a noble cause". The other day, President Bush called the invasion of Iraq, another unprovoked and piratical act, "a noble cause".

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[Mistress Quickly]

18. so the more wrongs

the closer we get to right?