http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s833124.htm
Message: 6From: "RE" <earnest at tallynet.com>To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Shooting demonstrators in Iraq Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 13:12:26 -0400Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030415/wl_mideast_afp/i raq_war_us_mosul&cid=1514&ncid=1473 I couldn't find a reference to shootings in the ABC news story cited by Mike Larkin athttp://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s832822.htmRandy
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> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 08:44:21 -0800
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> From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net>
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> Alan Brinkley, The End of Reform, New Deal
> Liberalism in Recession and
> War. Random House, Vintage Books, 1996.
> <URL:
> http://www.prospect.org/print/V6/21/brinkley-a.html
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> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:05:32 -0700 (PDT)
> From: mike larkin <mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com>
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Mosul Shootings of Protesters By
> US Troops
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> From the Australian Broadcasting Company:
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s832822.htm
>
> Is it just me, or is there absolutely no mention of
> this in the US media? I just scanned all the major
> network news pages and the Post and the Times. As of
> noon ET, nothing
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> Message: 3
> From: "Max B. Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net>
> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:43:46 -0400
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Shooting demonstrators in Iraq
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> Anybody have a link or source on this?
>
> max
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> From: "Kevin Robert Dean" <qualiall at union.org.za>
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 18:48:42 +0200
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Halliburton contract woes
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> http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/5636843.htm
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> KUWAIT - Halliburton Co., the second-largest
> provider of
> oilfield services, has lost exclusive rights to
> rebuild
> Iraqi oil fields and will have to compete for a
> contract
> worth a tenth of the previously estimated amount, a
> top
> Army official said.....ect....
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> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 12:51:48 -0400
> From: Dean Thomas <LETCAB at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Shooting demonstrators in
> Iraq
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> From: "Max B. Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net>
>
> > Anybody have a link or source on this?
> >
> > max
>
> http://sg.news.yahoo.com/030415/1/3a3es.html
> At least 10 dead as US troops in firefight in
> northern Iraq
>
> At least 10 people were killed and scores wounded in
> the northern Iraqi city
> of Mosul when US troops fired on a crowd angered by
> a speech by the new
> US-backed governor, witnesses reported.
>
> The charges were denied by a US military spokesman
> in the city Tuesday, who
> said troops had first come under fire from at least
> two gunmen and fired
> back, without aiming at the crowd.
>
> But the incident overshadowed the start of
> US-brokered talks aimed at
> sketching out the country's future leadership in the
> southern city of
> Nasiriyah, a Shiite Muslim bastion where 20,000
> people marched through the
> city chanting "No to America, No to Saddam."
>
> The firefight in Mosul broke out as the
> newly-appointed governor of the city
> was making a speech from the building housing his
> offices which listeners
> deemed was too pro-US, witnesses said.
>
> "There were protesters outside, 100 to 150, there
> was fire, we returned
> fire," a US military spokesman said, adding the
> initial shots came from a
> roof opposite the building, about 75 metres (yards)
> away.
>
> "We didn't fire at the crowd, but at the top of the
> building," the spokesman
> added. "There were at least two gunmen, I don't know
> if they were killed."
>
> "The firing was not intensive but sporadic, and
> lasted up to two minutes,"
> the spokesman said.
>
> But witnesses charged that US troops fired into the
> crowd after it became
> increasingly hostile towards the new governor,
> Mashaan al-Juburi.
>
> "They (the soldiers) climbed on top of the building
> and first fired at a
> building near the crowd, with the glass falling on
> the civilians. People
> started to throw stones, then the Americans fired at
> them," said Ayad
> Hassun, 37.
>
>
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