Rioters set fire to British troops

The Daily Telegraph ^ | 20th September, 2005 | Adrian Blomfield and Thomas Harding

[clee1]

Troopers, with one thousand-round belt of .50 caliber ammunition, lock-and-load then watch your sector.

[grey_whiskers]

I mis-read the title of the thread and thought it said,
Reuters sets fire to British troops.

Anti MSM Sarcasm Torpedo ARMED. FIRE!!

I wouldn't have put it past them...

[injin]

at what point are crowds yelling and screaming and surging
forward with petrol bombs considered legitimate targets?
Waste them....

[clee1]

Me either.

[propertius]

I guess they were under orders not to retaliate as that would have made the rescue of the two SAS operatives a lot more complicated.

[dervish]

"There is speculation that Mr Vincent, who received death threats, was murdered in an attempt to silence him. Four days before his death he had written an opinion piece in The New York Times in which he said that the police force in the British-controlled city had been infiltrated by Shia Muslim extremist militias, who were responsible for carrying out hundreds of murders of prominent Sunni Muslims.



He criticised the British, whose 8,000 troops in the area are responsible for security in Basra, for turning a blind eye to abuses of power by Shia extremists. The whole city was "increasingly coming under the control of Shia religious groups, from the relatively mainstream... to the bellicose followers of the rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr".

In his final blog, he wrote: "The British stand above the growing turmoil, refusing to challenge the Islamists’ claim on the hearts and minds of police officers."

Quoting an unnamed Iraqi police lieutenant, Vincent wrote: "He told me that there is even a sort of 'death car': a white Toyota Mark II that glides through the city streets, carrying off-duty police officers in the pay of extremist religious groups to their next assignment," he wrote."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1719505,,00.html

[propertius]

There are some quite dramatic pictures of the burning soldiers, but I don't know how to post them....

They are on www.telegraph.co.uk, www.timesonline.co.uk, www.thesun.co.uk and others.

[one more state]

The population of Iraq has no incentive to help the US or Briton. These poor troop should have been aloud to open fire on the crowd. Until the Iraqi civilians are put in harms way and made to choose sides this war will continue whether we are in country or not.

[zarf]

The "enlightened" British strategy is coming apart in Basra.

I wish to hell these G*d damned Euros would learn that the Arabs need a good ass kicking before they even consider getting with a program.

[MEG33]

The Iraqis are helping us with intel and they are fighting..

The Brits think their kinder gentler approach is superior..and things have gotten out of hand in Basra..

[injin]

I think they should have let the SAS go assist their own.
Sounds like Basra needs a bit of purging.

[MEG33]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/20/wirq20.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/09/20/ixportaltop.html

[one more state]

The Brits and US are touchy-feely, kinder-gentler. We both have the world war II play book, I wish we'd have used it. I think we all know this isn't working.

[Berlin_Freeper]

A mob set a British Warrior armoured vehicle ablaze in Basra yesterday, forcing its gunner to leap from the turret, in the worst riots to sweep Iraq's second city in two years.

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This sounds like Northern Ireland at the moment. And how many decades has that violence been and instability been going on?

I wonder why the MSM doesn't have a hysterical crap head fit over that... must be no political gain they can squeeze from it.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

The rioters, many of them children, then attacked the vehicle.

Not easy to waste children.

[injin]

ok , catch the children and spank um....
Sounds like they need it !

[Ninian Dryhope]

They need to wipe out the Mahdi army and Moqtada al-Sadr.

[Ninian Dryhope]

Yes, I remember the Brits bragging about their softly softly methods and how they were so much better than the methods used by the brash, aggressive and stupid Americans. It looks like they have come a cropper.

[English Nationalist]

I wonder why the MSM doesn't have a hysterical crap head fit over that

The MSM doesn't have a fit because Blair capitulates to the IRA at every opportunity. It's only when politicians treat the scum as they deserve that the media gets angry.