Police open fire after unemployed demonstrators attack station

[Judi Lynn]

Police open fire after unemployed demonstrators attack station

The Associated Press
10/1/03 3:40 AM


BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Iraqi police opened fire in downtown Baghdad Wednesday morning after jobless demonstrators stormed a police station and threw stones at officers, a policeman said. At least one demonstrator was injured in the shooting.

When the shooting stopped about 30 minutes later, fist fights broke out between some demonstrators and police. The protesters said they had been promised police jobs in July, but the positions had not been given out. They charged that police were demanding bribes in return for hiring them.

Salah Hasan, a policeman, said officers fired into the air when the Facilities Protection Force station was attacked by the demonstrators. Several officers were injured he said, and the demonstrators set two cars on fire.

Police Cpl. Hashim Habib Mohsen said some of the demonstrators fired on police. Firefighters were battling the car fires. (snip/...)

http://www.nola.com/iraq/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0464_BC_Iraq-BaghdadGunfight&&news&emergency

[Webster Green]

1. Democracy breaking out...

all over the place. Yes indeedy, everything is going just fine, thenk yew.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. What is wrong with you

Democracy is untidy... (Rumsfeld right after the so called liberation)

[saigon68]

6. Kill them all who cares

P.S. How did the playoffs go last night.. (Typical american reaction to this news)

[sleipnir]

3. Damn, it's only Iraq

I thought that this was going on in America. Finally, the unemployed (including myself) have had it and protests have drawn the police to qwell the masses! Guess not, it's in Iraq. We need this sort of anger here in America, to fight for workers rights and the need of employment!!!

I fear this this story may transfer to America if things don't improve over the next 4-10 months.

[sandnsea]

4. no jobs here, no jobs there

Bush Equality... fuck everybody!

[NJCher]

5. I thought it was the U.S., too

And figured it fit right into what's going on with our country right now.

It is sad that it is in Iraq. It is horrible for this to happen anywhere in the world. What next? Shooting the homeless?


Cher