Tragic, (but the family may be looking for a payday). However, any newsperson who ventures into a firezone should expect flying bullets. If Saddam's pals had shot him, would the family be issuing like statements? Or is this another opportunistic PC anti-American hit piece.
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Or is this another opportunistic PC anti-American hit piece."
It's hard news, but your words do describe the illegitimate efforts against our soldiers and against our nation. That story ran in most if not all of the papers over there the last day or two. Here's a link to news of another case (one of several).
UK official seeks trial for IDF officers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1613059/posts
...and some demographic information.
British Conservatives Must Defend the U.S.–U.K. Special Relationship"
The Heritage Foundation ^ | 28AUG06 | Nile Gardiner, Ph.D.
[Follow the link for the article.]
Excerpted footnotes:
[1] YouGov/Spectator Survey, August 14-15, 2006, at
http://www.yougov.com/archives/pdf/SpectatorPollResults.pdf.
[2] ICM/Guardian Poll, July 21-23, 2006, at
http://www.icmresearch.co.uk/reviews/2006/Guardian%20-%20July/guardian
-july-2006.asp.
[3] YouGov/Daily Telegraph Survey, June 26-28, 2006, at
http://www.yougov.com/archives/pdf/TEL060101010_3.pdf#search=%22
you%20gov%20daily%20telegraph%2026th-28th%20june%202006%22;
Anthony King, “Britain Falls Out of Love with America,” The Daily Telegraph, July 3, 2006, at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/03
/nyank103.xml.
[4] Financial Times/Harris Poll of Adults in Five European Countries, August 21, 2006, at
http://www.harrisinteractive.com/news/allnewsbydate.asp?NewsID=1081.
[5] Liam Fox MP, “Security and Defense: Making Sense of the Special Relationship,” Heritage Lecture No. 939, April 27, 2006, at
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Europe/hl939.cfm.
[6] Julian Glover, “Tories Open Nine-Point Lead as Labour Drops to 19-Year Low,” The Guardian, August 22, 2006, at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,
1855567,00.html.
Let us all sue the British, French, Germans, Belgians, etc. for all our relatives that were killed, accidentally, defending them.