Soldiers arrest secondary school students:

[DuctapeFatwa]

...American troops came to the school and arrested 16 students. Soldiers from the 1st Armoured Division surrounded Al-Shahid Adnan Kherala School on Wednesday morning before coming into the school with pictures and names of students they said had been throwing rocks at soldiers during a demonstration in support of Saddam Hussein outside the school on Tuesday...We had some IP (Iraqi Police) here last night who took photos. They are going through the school to get the kids in the pictures, the soldier said. The soldiers who entered the school were supported by a force that included helicopters, four armoured personnel carriers, and at least 10 Humvees. The arrests were apparently a preemption against a demonstration planned for the following day.

"You must not attend the demonstration tomorrow that is to be held here. Please disperse and go away," a translator working with the army said over a loudspeaker mounted on a Humvee while the police made the arrests. The students were then loaded onto a military truck and taken away from the school. Enraged students poured out of the school after the troops left, shouting and crying.

"This is the democracy? This is the freedom? You see what the Americans are doing to us here?" one shouted....Why are they taking them to prison? For throwing rocks?" another said through the tears...
As the soldiers left the school, two soldiers fired above the heads of the children standing outside. A boy holding a stone stood on the street, holding a rock. A soldier standing on a retreating tank pointed his pistol at the boy's head until the tank was out of range of a stones throw....One of the children they arrested lost all of his family during the bombing in March."...also took pictures of each of the teachers while they were here, but they did not say why...."During the time of Saddam no one could take a student from school. They had to wait until after he left the school to arrest him," the English teacher said, "for the Iraqis, school is a sacred house."

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[DarkPhenyx]

1. Yup! Bringing Democracy, building peace...

...winning hearts and minds.

[izzie]

2. Well they did it in the 60's here and I am sure they are still doing it.

One good reason to paint their faces when they go to these things. Sounds like the days of Cromwell when we can not let more than 4 people talk to gether.Just plain bad. Iraq will learn to love us.Lets hope this guys do not come home and join out police.