A suspected insurgent asks residents for mercy after they caught him planting explosives under civilian vehicles, at a busy area in Baghdad, January 3, 2005.
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Posted on 03/04/2005 12:13:32 PM PST by Wiz
BAGHDAD, Iraq - As more people lose loved ones to the relentless violence, Iraqis are becoming increasingly angry at insurgents, even staging public demonstrations condemning militants.
While it is impossible to precisely gauge public opinion, it is clear many Iraqis have grown tired of two years of insecurity, and some are directing their wrath at those behind the bombings and attacks.
"I demand that they be put in the zoo along with the other scavengers, because that is where they belong," said Bassam Yassin, who lost his brother to an insurgent attack in Mosul. He spoke Wednesday after relatives of victims protested outside a police station in that northern city.
Iraq's majority Shiite Arabs and ethnic Kurds have long criticized the largely Sunni Arab insurgency, portraying the militants as terrorists, loyalists of the Saddam Hussein regime and foreign fighters.
But the insurgents are now also being criticized publicly by prominent Sunnis, including opponents of the U.S. presence.
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Makes me remeber that picture of some Iraqis who found some guy trying to put a bomb under a vehicle and they beat the Shiite out of him. Wish I could find that picture.
Bump.
The worm has turned. My favorite story though is of the 3 guys who were storing their mortar and ammo in the engine of their car. They stopped and set up to fire, but the heat had made the powder "unstable", and when they dropped in the shell it exploded blowing of their legs. The 3rd escaped harm and ran away, but was caught by a mob and beaten until he ran to the US soldiers for protection.
No need to excerpt this story -- Yahoo doesn't require it.
Nice little bias here from AP!!
I see moral relativism is alive and well at AP.
But, but, but, Ted Kennedy assured us that the "insurgents" are appealing to the hearts and minds of the people of Iraq, just like we are!
It's great that the Iraqis aren't just laying down and taking it.
Now if only AP writers would do it in print.
On Friday, hostility to the insurgency apparently boiled over into bloodshed in Wihda, 25 miles south of Baghdad. Townsmen attacked militants thought to be planning a raid on the town and killed seven, police Capt. Hamadi al-Zubeidy reported.
Anger against insurgents is being fed, in part, by a government television campaign. Last week, U.S.-financed Al-Iraqiya TV aired a series of reports showing men describing themselves as insurgents calmly talking about how they had beheaded dozens of people, kidnapped others for ransom, and raped women and girls before killing them.
"People are realizing that the captured insurgents are not superheroes. They are timid people who kill for money and they have nothing to do with jihad," said Karim Humadi, head of programming for Al-Iraqiya.
Insurgents have attacked Nineveh TV, Al-Iraqiya's affiliate in Mosul, where most of the purported confessions were taped.
Last week, gunmen kidnapped one of the Mosul station's anchorwomen, shot her four times in the head and dumped her near her home. The victim, Raiedah Mohammed Wageh Wazan, had called the insurgents "terrorists" on air.
That is wonderful to hear! That has made my whole week, Eurotwit and I thank you for bringing it to my attention. Have a great weekend.
How about that; everybody gets it but the AP!
thats the picture!
How come the #%$%#% terrorists NEVER run to AP reporters for protection?
| "The real resistance should only target the occupiers, and no normal person should consider dozens of dead people to be some kind of collateral damage while you are trying to kill somebody else," cleric Ahmed Abdul-Ghafur told worshippers Friday at Um al-Qura, the main Sunni mosque in Baghdad.
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I see. Reporting what they say their reasons are, is "moral relativism" and "bias."
What would you consider unbiased?
Iraqis with a taste of freedom aren't going to give it up!! Hot dog!!!
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Ya gotta love the Religion of Peace®. When's the last time you were in church and heard the pastor get up there and tell everybody to be careful about who they're killing? Make sure you're killing the right people!