think he'd shoot at a corvette or a dodge viper? a beamer or a cadillac SUV?
R
----- Original Message -----
From: steve philion
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 7:07 AM
Subject: car drivers are now the enemy
Central Iraq :: Gavin Hewitt :: 1430GMT
We are stalled on the highway at the moment but the biggest news today was
when the radios crackled into life reporting an explosion further up the
road at an American military checkpoint.
We were told a taxi stopped and when American soldiers approached it, it
exploded and there were casualties.
There has been a lot of talk amongst the soldiers as this signifies
something they didn't expect here - suicide bombers.
Already one commander has said to me: "If I see any civilian vehicle on this
highway, either it gets off the highway or we shoot it off the highway". It
does lend support to the feeling that these troops are a little bit
embattled and that it's not going quite the way they imagined.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/world/2003/reporters_log/default.stm
-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20030329/9d289899/attachment.htm>