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Danish soldiers come under attack in Iraq
AFP ^ | 2/7/06

Posted on 02/07/2006 7:04:09 PM PST by bnelson44

Danish soldiers on patrol in southern Iraq came under attack but escaped unharmed, the Danish military headquarters said.

Iraqis shot at the patrol on Sunday as the Danish soldiers gave first aid to a group of children injured in a traffic accident south of Al-Qurnah, it said.

"They were shot at as they tried to help the children," Colonel Henrik Sommer said.

The soldiers shot back, withdrew from the area and took several of the children to hospital, he said.

Around 530 Danish soldiers are stationed in Iraq as part of a multinational force there, operating under British command in Basra, 550 kilometres south of Baghdad.

Denmark has been the target of angry protests in many Muslim countries following the publication in a Danish newspaper of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.

In Iraq on Monday, thousands of marchers demanded a fatwa, or Islamic ruling, calling for the killing of the Danish cartoonists.

However, Col Sommer said that "for the time-being" the government did not believe the attack was be linked to the Mohammed caricatures.

Danish Defence Minister Soeren Gade told Danish television DR1 that Denmark had increased security around its troops in Iraq.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cartoons; danish; danishtroops; denmark; iraq

1 posted on 02/07/2006 7:04:10 PM PST by bnelson44
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To: bnelson44

When will this BS stop?


2 posted on 02/07/2006 7:05:38 PM PST by GulfWar1Vet (If I have offended you by any way, shape or form....get over it.)
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To: bnelson44

The good news is..."The soldiers shot back..."


3 posted on 02/07/2006 7:07:02 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: bnelson44
They were shot at as they tried to help the children," Colonel Henrik Sommer said. Nice.
4 posted on 02/07/2006 7:07:24 PM PST by QueenBee3 ("Phone's ringin dude.")
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To: GulfWar1Vet
When will this BS stop?

Immediately after abject submission to the victor.

5 posted on 02/07/2006 7:10:26 PM PST by yatros from flatwater
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To: GulfWar1Vet
When will this BS stop?

When the mullahs have been deposed in Iran, when Mecca is a plate of radioactive glass, and Israel deports all Palestinians to whatever godforsaken Muslim hell hole will take them.

6 posted on 02/07/2006 7:11:33 PM PST by peyton randolph (As long is it does me no harm, I don't care if one worships Elmer Fudd.)
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To: george76; bnelson44
The good news is..."The soldiers shot back..."

Sounds like good practice for when they return to Denmark.

7 posted on 02/07/2006 7:52:27 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: bnelson44
Re: Danish Defence Minister Soeren Gade told Danish television DR1 that Denmark had increased security around its troops in Iraq.

Hun? Run over that hill one more time!

8 posted on 02/07/2006 7:57:45 PM PST by Bender2 (Stop doodling around... Read the first three chapters of my Science Fiction novel.)
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To: bnelson44

When's the last time a Danish soldier shot and killed someone? Any history buffs know the answer to that one?


9 posted on 02/07/2006 8:36:28 PM PST by Altair333 (We can build a wall on our border with Mexico for 10 billion dollars)
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To: bnelson44

Let's examine the truth about what has been done in the name of Islam, the peaceful religion:

Armenian Genocide - Muslims
Ambon Massacre - Muslims
Beslan School attack- Muslims
World Trade Center attacks (Twice) - Muslims
Pentagon attack - Muslims
Malcolm Kerr, Pres. American University, kidnapped & murdered - Muslims
Paul Johnson, kidnapper and beheaded - Muslims
Pan Am Flight 109 bombing - Muslims
Orly Airport attack - Muslims
Istanbul Airport attack - Muslims
Assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II - Muslim
Skyjack Sunday, 3 planes hijacked and blown up - Muslims
Planet Hollywood bombing in Cape Town - Muslims
La Belle nightclub bombing in Berlin - Muslims
AK-47 attack on CIA employees in Virginia - Muslim
Metro bombings in Paris (Twice) - Muslims
US Embassy bombing in Peru - Muslims
Russian Apartment Complex bombings - Muslims
Tunisian Synoqogue bombing - Muslim
Dagestan bombings - Muslims
US Consulate attack in Karachi - Muslims
North Ossetia Hospital attack - Muslims
Bombing of Mariott Hotel in Jakarta - Muslims
Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta - Muslims
British Consulate and HSBC bombings - Istanbul - Muslims
Sudan Genocide - Muslims
US Embassies in Kenya & Tanzania attacks - Muslims USS Cole attack - Muslims
Nicholas Berg, kidnapped and beheaded - Muslims
Bali nightclub bombings - Muslims
Moscow subway bombings - Muslims
Twin bombings of Russian airliners - Muslims
Murder of Theo van Gogh - Muslims
Kidnapping of hundreds of civilians & beheadings of scores in the Philippines -
Muslims
Luxor Attacks - Muslims
Attempted attack on Egyptian President Mubarak - Muslims
Lt. Col. W. Higgins, kidnapped & murdered - Muslims
US Embassy in Beirut attacks (Twice) - Muslims
French Embassy in Beirut attack - Muslims
Hijack of TWA Flight 847 - Muslims
Bombing of Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires - Muslims
Moscow Opera House attack and hostage taking - Muslims
Bombings & Suicide attacks in Tashkent and Boukhara - Muslims
Marine Barracks attacks Beirut - Muslims
Egyptian Embassy attack in Pakistan - Muslims
Dhahran Housing Attack - Muslims
Thousands of beheadings in Algeria - Muslims
Madrid Train Bombing - Muslims
Suicide Bombers in Iraqi and Israel - Muslims
Margaret Hussan, kidnapped and murdered - Muslims
Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and beheaded - Muslims
Beheading of bound and defenseless noncombatants - Muslims
Sarajevo Market Massacre - Muslims
Modern Slave Trade in Africa - Muslims
Somnath Slaughter - Muslims
Taliban - executions of thousands and destruction of Afghan culture - Muslims
Enslavement and trade of Africans into Western Europe and Americas
Honor rapes and killings - Muslims
Oppression of women - Muslims
Oppression and suppression of other religions - Muslims
Jihad - Muslims
Fatwa - Muslims
Plus hundreds of other attacks, bombings, rapes and murders............


10 posted on 02/07/2006 9:25:57 PM PST by steel_resolve
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To: steel_resolve

And now they use violence to protest pictures depicting Muhammed as violent. Go figure.


11 posted on 02/07/2006 9:29:19 PM PST by modhom
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To: modhom

We should kill all those that want to use violence as a tool. No exceptions.


12 posted on 02/07/2006 9:34:56 PM PST by steel_resolve
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To: bnelson44
"They were shot at as they tried to help the children," Colonel Henrik Sommer said.

Typical, shooting at kids again. And while no soldiers were hurt, they took several of the children to hospital,.

But of course, tomorrow, if it's not already, it will the Danes who hurt the kids, or at least their fault that the kids were hurt.

13 posted on 02/07/2006 9:35:16 PM PST by El Gato
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To: yatros from flatwater
When will this BS stop?

Immediately after abject submission to the victor.

14 posted on 02/07/2006 9:38:33 PM PST by El Gato
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To: peyton randolph
Israel deports all Palestinians to whatever godforsaken Muslim hell hole will take them.

That was the problem in the first place, right after the 1st Arab Israeli war. No one would take them. They just used them to get at Israel, as they are doing to this day.

15 posted on 02/07/2006 9:40:10 PM PST by El Gato
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To: yatros from flatwater
Second try

When will this BS stop?

Immediately after abject submission to the victor.

Or until we kill them all.

16 posted on 02/07/2006 9:41:49 PM PST by El Gato
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To: bnelson44
Don't mess with the Danish soldiers.


17 posted on 02/07/2006 9:42:01 PM PST by MinorityRepublican (everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL)
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To: peyton randolph

Problem is that NO ONE wants the Palis. They truly are the unwanted guests on this planet.

Fellow Arabs refuse allowing them into places like Egypt or Saudi Arabia.


18 posted on 02/07/2006 10:08:03 PM PST by Emmet Fitzhume ("Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure." President Reagan)
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