surge update - U.S. forces kill 12 year old Iraqi boy after grenade attack

spanone

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Sat May-09-09 06:26 PM
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surge update - U.S. forces kill 12 year old Iraqi boy after grenade attack

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said on Saturday its troops had shot dead a 12-year-old Iraqi boy suspected of throwing a grenade at them, and said it believed insurgents were paying children to help them.

Iraqi police, speaking on condition of anonymity, said however the boy, whom they named as Omar Moussa Salih, had not been involved in the grenade-throwing.

U.S. and Iraqi forces came under grenade attack Thursday in the western part of Mosul, the northern city seen as a final stronghold of al Qaeda and other insurgents, said Major Derrick Cheng, a U.S. spokesman in northern Iraq.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30660687/

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stray cat

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Sat May-09-09 06:34 PM
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1. thats a tragedy either way

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napi21

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Sat May-09-09 06:35 PM
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2. I have no idea about this incident, but I do know they used kids &

women & the very old to use explosives to kill Americans in "Nam". My BIL & quite a few other friends were there and saw it! They would tape explosives to them and have them walk innocently into an army camp and blow everybody up! It wouldn't surprise me if the insurgents in Iraq were doing a similar thing.

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malaise

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Sat May-09-09 06:40 PM
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3. Get out of Iraq

NOW

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spanone

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Sat May-09-09 06:43 PM
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4. .

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Sat May-09-09 06:50 PM
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5. I don't think "insurgents" have to pay anyone to bomb our troops.

We've only killed about a million of them. Just can't understand their hatred for us.:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

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