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03/31/2004 Archived Entry: "Are they singing great songs about us yet?"
Are they singing great songs about us yet?
This is frightening and depressing. I was going to post an image about this story, but it's just too graphic.
Jubilant residents dragged the charred corpses of four foreign contractors — including at least one American — through the streets Wednesday and hanged them from the bridge spanning the Euphrates River. Five American soldiers died in a roadside bombing nearby.The four contract workers for the U.S.-led coalition were killed in a rebel ambush of their SUVs in Fallujah, a Sunni Triangle city about 35 miles west of Baghdad and scene of some of the worst violence on both sides of the conflict since the beginning of the American occupation a year ago.
It was reminiscent of the 1993 scene in Somalia, when a mob dragged the corpse of a U.S. soldier through the streets of Mogadishu, eventually leading to the American withdrawal from the African nation.
Damn these neocon warmongering sons of bitches to hell. They wanted Iraq so badly, and now they have it. Damn them all.
Here's a video link from AP if you're so inclined. But keep in mind, it is extremely graphic.
Replies: 6 people speak up
Somehow I can't seem to find it in my heart to define this as a "sign of progress".
Rose petals and open arms, that's what we were told they would greet us with.
Posted by frer @ 03/31/2004 12:56 PM NY
The magnitude of this slaughter and the depth of the hatred just boggles the mind. These current developments were so disturbing that I’ve decided to review my War on Terror/Operation Iraqi Freedom notes and I came up with these tidbits:
(1)On March 1, 2003, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was captured by Pakistani forces in Quraishi (Karachi). Khalid was billed as al-Qaeda’s #3 man as Director of Military Operations.
(2)On July 22, 2003, Saddam Hussein’s sons, Uday and Qusay, were killed by US forces in Mosul.
(3)On December 14, 2003, Saddam Hussein was captured by US forces on a farm just outside Tikrit.
So when will Iraq be pacified? When will the War on Terra be won? “Mission Accomplished,” “Bring it on,” indeed.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 03/31/2004 01:27 PM NY
Just reading the article (nevermind watching the video) overwhelmed me to the point of tears. Raw hatred and senseless violence, is this the legacy of the human race?
Posted by Pfonics Monkey @ 03/31/2004 02:25 PM NY
Oh Fuck!!! Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuckety, Fuck, Fuck!!!!!!!
Those fucking bastards are really asking for it. This is going to be a bughunt. I hope the Marines go door-to-door, house-to-house, and run these motherfuckers down. I am so sick of this shit!!
Posted by Stentor @ 03/31/2004 08:25 PM NY
A little background on the "civilian contractors" killed and otherwise abused in Fallujah.
Their employer is one Blackwater Security. I am guessing that the photo at the top of the page is stock footage and not from new coverage and will be changed as soon as somebody notices.
The link came from this coverage in the Mercury (CA)News
MOYOCK, N.C. - The four civilians who were killed and dragged through the streets of an Iraqi town Wednesday worked for a North Carolina subcontractor that is providing security in a hostile area of Iraq.
Blackwater Security Consulting provides security training and guard services to customers around the world. It is one of five subsidiaries of Blackwater USA, based on a 6,000-square-acre enclave in Currituck County in northeastern North Carolina, a half-hour drive south of the world's largest naval base in Norfolk, Va.
...Marty Huffstickler, 52, who said he works part-time as an electrician for Blackwater, said he didn't know who was killed.
"I think they're dying for no reason," Huffstickler said. "I don't agree with what's going on over there. The people over there don't want us there."
Posted by Xan @ 03/31/2004 08:40 PM NY
Again with that line
Most Iraqi's want us there, but as usual the minority will rule. Them types of people will never be reasoned with, no matter who does what
For a refrence on minority rule / gun control act of 1968, 2 idiots ruled a nation, ok for you conspiracy nuts ( like me ) maybe 5
Posted by Robin Hacker @ 04/01/2004 07:11 AM NY
