Iraqis stand by a car destroyed during yesterday's gun battle in Samarra, some 110 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Monday Dec. 1, 2003. The U.S. military said 54 Iraqis were killed in the northern city of Samarra as U.S. forces used tanks and cannons to fight their way out of simultaneous ambushes Sunday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
Iraqis inspect cars destroyed during yesterday's gun battle in Samarra, some 110 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Monday, Dec. 1, 2003. The U.S. military said 54 Iraqis were killed in the northern city of Samarra as U.S. forces used tanks and cannons to fight their way out of simultaneous ambushes Sunday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
A man prays for the victims who died in a charred bus in a US army raid on Samarra. The US military confirmed that the attacks on US troops in Samarra were "coordinated" and targeted two convoys transporting the new Iraqi currency.(AFP/Cris Bouroncle)
I quess they just cannot find anything to be jubilant about.
Iraqis stand around a damaged car in gun battle in Samarra, 110 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad Monday, Dec. 1, 2003. The U.S. military said 54 Iraqis were killed in the northern city of Samarra as U.S. forces used tanks and cannons to fight their way out of simultaneous ambushes Sunday. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
An Iraqi child stands beside a bloody footprint outside a mosque in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad December 1, 2003. American troops said on Monday they had killed 54 guerrillas, some wearing the uniform of Saddam Hussein 's feared Fedayeen militia, in a firefight to fend off attackers in the tense Iraqi town. Attacks across Iraq over the weekend also killed seven Spanish intelligence agents, two South Korean contractors, two Japanese diplomats and their Iraqi driver, a Colombian contractor and two U.S. soldiers. Photo by Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
I guess this one still has not learned a lesson. I guess it will take him to give his life in order to do so.
An Iraqi boy gestures in front of a burned-out car in Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, December 1, 2003. U.S. troops said on Monday they had killed 54 guerrillas, some wearing the uniform of Saddam Hussein's feared Fedayeen militia, in a firefight to fend off attackers in the Iraqi town of Samarra. Attacks across Iraq at the weekend also killed seven Spanish intelligence agents, two South Korean contractors, two Japanese diplomats and their Iraqi driver, a Colombian contractor and two U.S. soldiers. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
A prisoner is kept under guard by US soldiers in Iraq . Three men suspected of belonging to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network have been captured by US troops in the main northern Iraqi city of Mosul.(AFP/File/Robert Schmidt
Iraqis inspect a pick-up truck destroyed during yesterday's gun battle in Samarra, some 110 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Monday Dec. 1, 2003. The U.S. military said 54 Iraqis were killed in the northern city of Samarra as U.S. forces used tanks and cannons to fight their way out of simultaneous ambushes Sunday. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
An Iraqi man holds up a Moslem flag beside two corpses in a morgue in Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, December 1, 2003, allegedly killed during shootouts a day earlier. A U.S. commander said Monday that said the testimony of those involved in gun battles suggested 46 attackers were killed in a fierce battle to fight off coordinated ambushes on convoys by guerillas, though the Army had earlier said the death toll was 54. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
Iraqis inspect a burned-out bus in Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, December 1, 2003, after U.S. troops fought their way out of two simultaneous ambushes. U.S. troops said on Monday they had killed 54 guerrillas, some wearing the uniform of Saddam Hussein's feared Fedayeen militia, in a firefight to fend off attackers in the Iraqi town of Samarra. Attacks across Iraq at the weekend also killed seven Spanish intelligence agents, two South Korean contractors, two Japanese diplomats and their Iraqi driver, a Colombian contractor and two U.S. soldiers. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
Notice that none of these citizens of Samarra are afraid to be out in the street with the American forces nearby.
Reuters, at least, called the Hussein loyalist-thugs "attackers."
AFP, 'enemy press caption writer'*:
A man prays for the victims who died in a charred bus in a US army raid on Samarra.
*...imho.