Crashing the 'Party' (how the media got its story confused)

Sacred Cow Burgers ^ | 05/19/2004 | Sacred Cow Burgers

[Prime Choice]

[NRA2BFree]

LOL! Good one! :-)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Here is the story from Centcom:

Safehouse Proves Unsafe for "Foreign Fighters"

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From CNN:

Iraq updates

Pentagon: Attack on fighters, not wedding

Pentagon officials Wednesday denied witness reports of a U.S. attack on a wedding party in a remote area of western Iraq that killed civilians.

"Our report is that this was not a wedding party, that these were anticoalition forces that fired first, and that U.S. troops returned fire, destroying several vehicles, and killing a number of them," a Pentagon spokesman said.

He was responding to a video distributed by The Associated Press showing Iraqi witnesses who said that at least 20 people were killed and five others critically wounded early Wednesday when planes fired on a wedding celebration.

A senior military coalition official said as many as 40 people were killed in the attack, but said it was his belief that the attack was against a foreign fighters' safe house.

A coalition official said in a written statement that coalition forces conducted a military operation "against a suspected foreign fighter's safe house in the open desert, 85 km southwest of Husaybah, and 25 km from the Syrian border. (Full story)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This is a better link:

U.S.: Iraqi 'safe house' attacked

[elbucko]

The "Insurgents" are learning to manipulate the US media. The US media are willing to cooperate. Knowingly.

[SquirrelKing]

Cool, the Thunderbirds. Death by acrobatics!

[Redbob]

Yeah, the one in the wedding dress was a camel!
LOL!

[Redbob]

"The AP video showed at least a dozen bodies, including small children, wrapped in blankets for burial as they were unloaded from a truck. Men with picks and shovels were digging graves in the video."

Is there any chance this video was staged for AP's benefit?
</sarcasm>

[Redbob]

How stupid would you have to be to shoot into the air while US helicopters are flying overhead?

Iraqi stupid?

[OXENinFLA]

Hehehehe.

[weegee]

You mean that they took photos of someone urinating on the "bride" for nothing?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Some indication this was a staged event.

[EERinOK]

the "kids" were half terrorists.

i did se the video feed of this and all the bodies (if they were even from this incident) were wrapped in blankets, and adult sized.

there was no way to determine if there were children, or women, killed, other than just believing whatever joe-jihad says is so.

[Kate of Spice Island]

Rotflmmfao

Permission to reproduce for the sole purpose of Dubya re-election? Along with all other Prime Choice stuff? Not sure if anything here is "public domain."

[Prime Choice]

Permission to reproduce for the sole purpose of Dubya re-election? Along with all other Prime Choice stuff? Not sure if anything here is "public domain."

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[kimmie7]

bwa ha ha ha ha

[My2Cents]

LOL...the terrorists where killed by craning their necks.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

You FReepers are so insensitive!

Judea/Christian culture wedding gift examples: punch bowl, home entertainment center.
Wahabi culture wedding gift example: explosive ordinance, secure satellite command/control equipment.

Judea/Christian culture wedding tradition: throw rice upon wedding party.
Wahabi culture wedding tradition: throw automatic weapons fire upon overhead aircraft.

Sensitivity training is in order for all FReepers!