Four Jordanians killed by US troops in Baghdad: taxi firm

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20031016/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_jordan&cid=1514&ncid=1480

AMMAN (AFP) - A taxi-driver and his three fellow Jordanian passengers were shot dead by US troops in Baghdad after failing to stop at a checkpoint, his taxi firm here said.

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1. that's horrible, and this after frontline showed a US tank crush a taxi

on the Truth or consequences report. Afterwards, the taxi's owner said that it was his livelihood, now he has no job. This hole's getting deeper and deeper............

[sattahipdeep]

2. Karim Kadim?

Karim Kadim and driver Mohammed Abbas

U.S. Troops Detain 2 AP Staffers
in Iraq

Tuesday September 23, 2003 10:19 PM

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. soldiers detained an Associated
Press photographer and driver on Tuesday, handcuffing them,
forcing them to stand in the sun for three hours and denying
them water or use of a telephone.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3183523,00.html

3 yr old boy shot in the chest.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7310485%255E1702,00.html

[izzie]

3. Stop signs are really important I guess.

If you can arrest people for protesting now, shooting people for not stopping at signs can be thought of as OK. By the way I have been to that part of the world and they do not give a GD for signs to tell you what to do in cars. They just drive.