Reply #17: New food markets open in Bahgdad - Now with Splatter screens [View All]

BAHGDAD - Open air food markets reopend under the watchful eye of US occupying forces Friday in downtown Bahgdad. The market booths set up by Halliburton division Kellog Brown & Root feature biohazard splatter proof screens to protect fresh food items from being contaminated by bone, blood and flesh fragments.
The booths too feature bullet resistent kevlar awnings. KB&R spokesman stated that the $68,000 price tag per booth was "little in comparions to joy on the faces of the Iraqi people who no longer have to wash the blood of American soldiers from their fresh dates".
Earlier in the afternoon the booths were put to the test as an American soldier was wounded in an exchange of gun fire and rocket propelled grenades with Saddam loyalist Al-Queda terrorists. Ahmed Duballa praised the kevlar awning for saving him from the stream of 50 caliber machine gun fire that sprayed the market place from a U.S. checkpoint 75 yards away. "As soon as the shooting started I dropped the awing and dove under the dates, Allah bless the Americans and KB&R, my dates were saved." Eight Iraqi teenagers were killed in the crossfire. U.S. forces are still seeking the gunmen.