Iraqis Riot for Jobs in Southern City

[Say_What]

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KUT, Iraq - Ukrainian soldiers fired into the air Monday to disperse hundreds of Iraqis who rioted for jobs and food as a second southern Shiite Muslim city was rocked by unrest — a barometer of rising frustration with the U.S. led-occupation in a region of Iraq (news - web sites) considered friendly to the Americans.

Also Monday, the U.S. death toll in the Iraqi conflict neared 500 with the explosion of a roadside bomb in the capital that killed one American soldier and wounded two.

Trouble started in Kut, 95 miles southeast of Baghdad, when about 400 protesters marched for a third straight day on a government building to demand jobs. Someone in the crowd threw a grenade at police and Ukrainian soldiers guarding the building, injuring four Iraqi policemen and one Ukrainian, according to Lt. Zafer Wedad.

The Ukrainians then fired in the air to disperse the crowd, injuring one protester, Wedad said. He said the demonstrators hurled bricks at the building and trashed a post office in the city.

<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=535&e=3&u=/ap/20040112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq>

[NNN0LHI]

1. Looks like everything is really shaping up over there in Iraq n/t

[lebkuchen]

2. The newly deployed units are in for one hell of a mess

On base today they donned their desert camo BDUs for the first time.

Savor that Taco Bell Stuffed Chicken Burrito while you still can~.

[AmandaRuth]

3. Yahoo was "for food"

The yahoo headline (I did yahoo before I came to DU) said they rioted "for food", which sounds a lot more desperate and sickening than just asking for jobs ( which is bad enough). But is guess it is all ok because now they are "free".

[yellowcanine]

4. Damn-they want jobs AND food?

Where do they think they are? In murika?

[jpak]

5. Haliburton's got plenty of jobs and piles of food in I-raq

what's the problem here?

Oh - I get it now....