By popular request (and although it's not, strictly speaking, a Minneapolis Issue), I am providing the following news story for all the people who have contacted me offlist (or who might in the future). I assumed most people would know what I was talking about when I responded to Jim's comparison of the treatment of rioters here with that in Iraq by referring to what had happened in Mosul.
Linda Mann Kingfield In a message dated 4/16/2003 11:18:28 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Probably > not one of their Mothers or Fathers has been tortured for their actions. The > Baghdad rioters probably can look forward to the same treatment since being > freed from an evil dictator. I wonder what would have happened to those > Baghdad rioters a month ago. The words poison gas and Kurds come to mind. Other words that come to my mind are Mosul, Shias and 12 dead and 60 wounded by US soldiers for demonstrating. Linda Mann KIngfield A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/16/sprj.irq.int.war.main/index.html MOSUL, Iraq (CNN) --U.S. Central Command has admitted its soldiers shot dead seven Iraqis demonstrating in the northern Iraq town of Mosul. The troops are believed to have opened fire after a crowd had gathered in the city center to protest at U.S. Marines taking over a former Kurdish government building and allegedly raising the American flag. Details of the incident, which happened Tuesday, are being investigated, but Brigadier General Vincent Brooks at U.S. Central Command in Qatar said Wednesday he believed seven people had died. A senior Kurdish intelligence officer told CNN the number was 12. CH-53 helicopters were circling low over Mosul Wednesday in an apparent show of strength, said CNN's Ben Wedeman. Wedeman said the Americans were finding it hard to keep order in Mosul. On Wednesday another three people died in a shooting believed to be linked to an attempted robbery. Wedeman said Kurdish forces, who entered the city with U.S. troops last week, had pulled out of the western Arab part of the town, and had not been replaced with American soldiers. The U.S. controls the skies, if the not the ground, Wedeman said, "but that does not appear enough." Residents gathered on the streets Tuesday protesting against what they saw as the "American occupation" of the town's main government building, the Kurdish intelligence official told CNN. The official said the crowd became angry when U.S. troops set up offices in Mosul's main government building and raised the American flag. Tensions rose when Mishaan Jabouri, a Damascus-based exile perceived by the protesters to be a U.S. puppet, tried to make a speech about America and democracy. A witness said the crowd began throwing stones at him then U.S. troops opened fire. "No to the Americans. No to the governor," the protesters chanted, the intelligence official told CNN. Some said: "The time for jihad has come." Jabouri has denied having been appointed governor and told the Arabic network Al-Jazeera he would never accept American occupation. http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/16/sprj.irq.int.war.main/index.html TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
